1. In the case of subjects for which no special details are published, the Syllabus for the Degree with Honours will be the same as that for the Ordinary Degree, but the Examination for the Degree with Honours will require candidates to attain a higher standard and to show more detailed knowledge.
2. Students who have begun, before 1958, a course for B.A. Honours which included a Special Course in a foreign language, and who have passed in the First Year, or the First and Second Years, of that language course, should com- plete the Special Course in 1958.
Students who have already passed in Part I or Part IA of a foreign language will not be required to complete a Special Course.
Students entering the Second or Third Year of any course for B.A. Honours in which a Special Course in a foreign language was prescribed, without having passed in either the First Year of a Special Course or in Part I or Part IA of a foreign language, will be required to pass in Part I or Part IA of a foreign language.
A. SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
1. The course for the Degree with Honours in the School of Classical Studies comprises the following subjects:
Greek Parts I, II, III and IV Latin Parts I, II, III and IV Comparative Philology
in accordance with the Details set out below or, in the case of Greek Part I, under the Ordinary Degree.
A candidate in this School must take these nine subjects and one additional subject, whose choice must be approved by the Professor.
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All candidates in the School of Classical Studies are required to consult the Professor of Classical Studies at the beginning of their course.
Except with the permission of the Faculty, no candidate for Honours ill School A may sit for examination without completing the essay work and exercises, and attending tutorial classes in the subjects of the School.
2. In their First Year, candidates will take Greek Part I (Pass or Ions.), Latin Part I (Ions.), and the additional subject. Admission to the higher years of the course is conditional upon satisfactory performance in this First Year, and students must be approved by the Faculty of Arts as candidates for the Degree with Honours before entering the Second Year of the Honour School.
A student who has not attempted Honours in Latin Part I, but who, at the end of the First Year, wishes to enter the Honour School, must make special application to the Faculty (through the Sub-Dean) for permission to do so. If such permission is granted, the Faculty will prescribe what further work must be completed before the student is allowed to proceed to the Final Examination.
Ín their Second Year, candidates will take the Honour courses in Greek Part II and Latin Part II, and in their Third Year, the Honour courses in Greek Part III and Latin Part III. and in their Fourth Year the Honour courses in Greek Part IV and Latin Part IV.
Comparative Philology will be taken in either the Third or Fourth Year according to the year in which the lectures in this subject are delivered. In the alternate years, when lectures are not offered in Comparative Philology, lectures will be given in Imperial Rome and Greek Philosophy as part of Latin Part III or Part IV and Greek Part III or Part IV.
Candidates for Honours will be required, unless exempted by the Professor, to submit one essay at the beginning of first term in each of their Second and Third Years.
3. Candidates will be examined in the subjects of Greek Part II and Latiu Part II at the Annual Examination at the end of Second Year. At the end of the Third Year candidates will be examined in Unseen Translation from Greek and Latin, and in Greek and Latin Prose Composition and special studies prescribed for the Third Year unless exempted by the Professor as a result of satisfactory work during the first two terms. They will also take Part I of the Final Examination.
4. The Final Examination in the School of Classical Studies will be held in two parts, Part I at the end of the Third Year, Part II at the end of the Fourth Year.
Part I
1. Prescribed Greek Texts.
2. Prescribed Latin Texts.
3. Either Comparative Philology with questions in Historical Syntax, or Imperial Rome and Greek Philosophy (according to the year in which lectures are given).
Part II
1. Translation into Greek Prose, with questions on historical syntax.*
2. Translation into Latin Prose, with questions on historical syntax.*
3. Greek Unseen Translation.
4. Latin Unseen Translation.
5. Latin Literature.
6. Greek Literature.
7. Either Comparative Philology with questions in Historical Syntax, or Imperial Rome and Greek Philosophy (according to the year in which lectures are given).
As part of Part II of the Final Examination each student must also complete
and
hand in, on the first day of the third term, an essay of not more than 9,000 words on an approved subj ect.• When Comparative Philology falls in Part II of the Final Examination, papers 1 and 2 will not include Questions on historical syntax.
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GREEK PART I
A course of three lectures per week, with two tutorial classes, throughout the year.
SУLLАВus. (i) Study of prescribed Greek authors.
(ii) Study of Greek accidence and syntax and translation into Classical Greek prose.
(iii) Translation at sight from Greek prose and verse authors.
(iv) Study of historical and cultural background.
Students are required to submit written work during the course.
Вoокs. (a) Prescribed text-books:
As for Ordinary Degree together with
*Demonsthenes—The Philippics. (Davies, Pitt.) (b) Recommended for reference:
As for Ordinary Degree, together with the references for Demosthenes listed under Greek Part II.
EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour papers (one on Prose and Verse Composition, one on Unprepared Translation and one on Prescribed Texts).
LATIN PART I A course of five lectures per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS. (i) Study of prescribed Latin authors.
(ii) Study of Latin accidence and syntax and translation into Latin prose and into elegiac verse.
(iii) Translation at sight from Latin prose and verse authors.
(iv) -Study of historical and cultural background.
Students are required to submit written work during the course.
Booкs. (a) Prescribed text-books:
(i) Latin authors
As for Ordinary Degree together with:
*Lucretius—Book V. (Duff, C.U.P.) (ii) For Prose and Verse Composition
*Mountford, J. F. (ed.)—Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition. (Long- mans. )
*Kerry, W.—Easy Passages for Latin Prose Composition. (М.U.Р.)
*Kennedy, B. I3.—Revised Latin Primer. (Longmans.) (b) Recommended for reference:
As for Ordinary Degree, together with references for Lucretius listed under Latin Part II, and Cooper, C. G. Introduction to the Latin Hexameter. (Mac- millan.)
EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour papers (as for Greek Part I Ions.).
GREEK PART II
A course of three lectures per week and cxie tutorial class throughout the year.
SYLLABUS. (i) Study of prescribed Greek authors.
(ii) More advanced prose composition.
(iii) More advanced unprescribed translation.
(iv) Aspects of history, antiquities, art and literature of Classical Greece.
Воокs. (a) Prescribed texts:
As for Ordinary Degree.
(b) Recommended for reference:
As for Ordinary Degree.
EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour and one 1I-hour papers (the 3-hour papers on each of parts (i), (ii) and (iii), and the 1I-hour paper on part (iv), of the syllabus).
LATIN PART II
A course of three lectures per week and one tutorial class throughout the year.
SymAaus.
(i)
Study of prescribed Latin authors.(ii) More advanced prose and verse composition.
• (iii). More advanced unprescribed translation.
(iv) Aspects of history, antiquities, art and literature of Classical Rome.
Boons. (a) Prescribed text-books As for Ordinary Degree.
(b) Recommended for reference:
As for Ordinary Degree.
EXAMINATION. Three 3-hour and one 1k-hour papers (as for. Greek Part II Ions.).