Rrpuslrc.aN Lrrrnerr¡n¡: First term

LATIN

I. Rrpuslrc.aN Lrrrnerr¡n¡: First term

Texts which students should obtain:

Plautus, Pseud,olus,

in

The

pot of

^gold ønd, other plays (penguin).

Catullus, The poems,

tr.

Michie,

J. ^(Hart

^Davis).

I-.ucretius, The øaE thíngs are,

tr.

Humphies (Indiana _U.p.

Cicero, Selected, øorks,

tr,

Grant (penguin).

Recommended books:

Beare,

W.,

The Roman súagø (Methuen).

drama (Roúledge).

( P¡inceton ₎ .

2.

Ror"reu

Arr e¡l¡ Ang¡urrcrunn:

Second term.

Text which students should obtain;

wheeler,

4..E. M''

^Roman

^{art and}

architecture (Tharnes and Hudson paperback),

Recommended reading:

Gtant,

M., Cities

Nicolson).

Gtant,

M.,

The

R

Nicolson).

Hanfmann, G,

M.

and Mackay).

Kähler,

H.,

Rome

c.ture

of

(yale U.p.).

stones s

c,753

rces and docu-

Pollitr, J. J.,

.4

,P. ).

Robertson,

D.

paperback).

Toynbee,

J. M

ttudso"),

3.

^Aucusre¡¡

Lrr¡n¡rr¡nr: Third

term.

Texts which students should obtain:

roc

tr' Ge _{rgil, tr. Day Lewis}

(OÉord 606

B.A.-SYLLASUSES

cr.assrcs (cr.essrcar. sruprBs ₎ Recommended readingr

Camps,

W.

A'., An introiluction to Virgilis Aen¿í.d (O.U'P. paperback).

Commager,

H.

S.

(ed.), Virgil

(Prentice-Hall)'

Dudle¡ D, R.

(ed.),

Virgrl

(Routledge).

Highet, G., Poets

in a

Inndscape (Hamilton).

Luck, G., The

Latin

lnoe elega (Methuen).

Pöschl,

Y.,

The art oÍ

Vireil

^(Michigan

U.P')'

Wilkinson,

L.

P., Ot:ìd tunseged (C.U.P. paperback).

AC33

Classical Studies

III.

Pre-requisite subjects: Ei'ther AC32 Classical Studies

II

or both AC31 Classical Studies

I arÀ

AC72 Ancient History

II.

The subject

is

concerned,

in

^{studies of}

ro-" [t".árv

^genres

practiíed the

novel,

ãtr¿

ttirto¡olråtl. l"

^the

the

^{eitLpr the}

literature of"thê tâter Roman

E ^or

^ancient

philosophy,

Parts

of

the syllabus may be examined separately during the year.

l.

Pesronar-, SaTmn, ^{AND THE}

Nov¡r-:

First te¡m'

(a)

Pastoral.

Texts which students should obtain:

Greek pastoral poetrg,

tr.

A. Holden (Penguin)'

Vireil's Eclogues

in

The Eclogues, Georgics ønd Aeneiil

of

VirgìL,

tr.

Day Llewis

(O#ord

paperback).

Recommended reading:

Higginbotham,

J.

(Cd.), .Greek and

Latin

litetature,

a

comparat¡oe studg (Úniversity paperback).

Lawall, G., Theoøötui Coøn pastorals (Haward U.P.).

Putnam,

M.

C,, Vírgílis plstoral ørú (Princeton U.P.).

Rose, H. _J., Th.e Eclogues of

Vireil

⁽ California U.P. ₎ ' Rosenmeyer,

T',

^The gfeen cabínet (California

U'P')' (b)

Satire.

Texts which students should obtain:

Safires

of

Horace and. Persws, ed. Rudd,

N'

^(Penguin)'

Juvenal, The sírteen satíres,

tr.

Green (Penguin).

Recommended reading:

Highet,

G,

Iuoenal the satíríst (O.U.P.).

Rudd,

N.,

The satíres

of

Horace

(C.U.P')'

Sullivan, J. P.

(ed,),

C¡ítícal essa7s oÌL Roman làteraturet Søúítø (Routledge and Kegan Paul).

\üitke,

C., Løtln sat¡re (Leiden,

Brill).

(c)

The novel.

Texts which students should obtain:

Petronius, Th,e satgricon and the fragments,

tr,

Sullivan (Penguin).

Apuleius, The golden øss,

tr.

Graves (Penguin).

Recommended reading:

Sullivan,

I.

^{P,, TlLe satEúcon of Petronius (Faber),}

Walsh, P. G., The Roman nooel (C,U.P').

FÀCI'LTY OF ARTS

ñ7

F'ACULTY OF ÀRTS B.A._SYLLABUSES

classrcs (cr..lssrclr- sruores)

2,

^{Gn¡nx ervo} Ronr¡n Hrsronrocnep¡ry: Second term, Texts which students should obtain:

Herodotus, The hhtoríes,

tr,

de Selincourt (Penguin).

Thrrcydideq The Peloponnesìan

uar, tr.

Warner,

with

an Introduction _by Finley (Penguin).

Sallust The Iugurthìn¿

øør

and,

tlw

conspíracg

of

Catiline,

tr.

Handford (Peneuin).

Tacitus, On imperial Rom.e,

b.

Grant (Penguin).

Ushe¡, S,, The hìstorians

of

Creece and. Rome (University paperback).

The above works

will

^be s-tudied as part.

of a

course

in

the general develop- ment of historical writing, including the work of Polybius and

Li[,.

Recommended reading:

Bury, J,

8.,

The ancient Greek hhtorians (Dover).

Dorey,

T. A. ^(ed.),

Lat¡n histotians (Routledge).

Grant,

M.,

The ancient hßtoúans (Weidenfeld and Nicholson).

Laistner,

M, L.

W., The greater Romnn historians (California _U,P.).

Books on individual authors¡

Fornara, C. W,, He¡odoúus ⁽ O.U.P. ₎ ,

Finley, _J.

H.,

Thucgd.ídes (Michigan _U.P.).

Polybius, The hßtories,

tr.

Chambers,

M.

(Washington Square press).

Earl,

D.

C., The pol¡tical thought

of

Søllust (Amsterdam, Hakkert).

Walsh, P. Q.,

Lios

^(C.U.P.).

Walker,

8.,

The annals

of

Tacítus (Manchester U.P.).

Either

3¿. Trrn

Lerrn Rolrex Errprnr:

Third term.

Books which students should obtain:

Brown, P., The øoild, of lnte antiquitg (Thames and Hudson), St, A.ugustine, Confessions (Penguin).

Isbell,

H.,

ThÊ

kßt

poets

of

Im.perial Rome (Pengoin), Recommended reading:

Brown, P,,

Augstíne

of Híppo (Faber).

Chadwick,

H.,

The eailg church (Pelican).

Chambers,

M. (ed.),

The

fall of

^Rome

(Holt,

Rinehart and Winston).

Jones,

.{. H. M,,

Thc decline

of

the ancient

uoùil

(Longmans).

Momigliano,

^.,

^{T.he conflict} bettoeen paganßm and, Christianitg

in

the

fourth

^centuty (Clalendon).

A

further reading

list will

^{be issued} during the year, ol

3n, ANcrnNr P¡rr,osopr¡y:

Third

term.

;ffi lfiltr'""ïi,åîiåä}T"xr"år

608 Either

B.A._SYLL.{BUSES

cr-Assrcs ⁽ cr-essrclr. srrrorrs )

Books which students should obtain:

FA.CULTY OF .A'RTS

Stace,

W. T' A

critícal history

of

Greek phílosophø (Macmillan).

Plato, Last dags

of

Socrates,

tr.

Tredennick,

H.

^(Penguin).

Plato, Gorgias,

tr.

Hamilton,

W.

^(Penguin).

Aristotle, Ethics,

tr.

Thomson, J.

,{. K.

^(Penguin)'

Recommended reading:

Clarke,

M, L.,

The Roman mind' (Cohen and West).

Copleston, F.,

Ahistory

of philosophg, vol.

I

^(Image paperback-two parts).

Comford,

F. M.,

Before and after Socrates (C.U'P.).

Cornford,

F. M.,

Principium Sapientia¿ (C'U'P.).

Edwards,

P.. and

Popkins,

R. H.

^{( eds.} )

,

^Reailings

^{ìn the hßtorg}

^of

philosophu', vols.

I-II

⁽ Collier-Macmillan ) ,

Freeman, K., God, mnn anil sú¿ú¿ (MacDonald).

Grube, G.

M.

A., Plato's thought (University paperback).

Guthrie, W. K. C., The

^Greek philosophers

from

^Thales

to

Arßtotle (Methuen).

Hicks,

R. D.,

Stoic

anil

Epicureøn (Longman Green).

Hussey,

8.,

^The Presocratics (Duckworth).

Ross, Sir David, Aristotlø (University paperback).

Taylor,

A, 8.

Plnto (University paperback).

Wheelwright,

P, (ed.),

The Presocratics (Odyssey ^Press).

There

will

be two weekly lectures and a weekly seminar during the term.

HONOURS DEGREE.

AC79

Classical Studies

for

the Ilonours degree of B'A'

pre-requisite subjects:

ACSI

Classical stgdies _{_I;} AÇ_3_2 Classical studies

II

^or

nCiZ Aircient Hiítory II; AC33

Classical

Studifs III; either AC01 Latin I'

AC02

Latin II

^{and AC03}

^Latin III or

AC78 Greek IIIS.

The work

of

the ffnal Honours year

will

consist of:

(a)

The stuily

of

a Greek or Roman text

in

the original language:

for

1975 either

Sophocles, Oedípus Tgrannus, ed. R. Jebb (C'U.P.).

ol

Horace, Odes

I-IV,

^ed'

T. E'

Page (Macmillan).

(b)

The cultural and social development

of

classical Greece and Rome, t-o

'-'

bã-studied under set topics: e.-g. early Greek

lyric

and

jts

background;

the Athenian tragedians; the new learning; and so on'

(c) A

special

topic, !o ^of

classical -studies in '

-' iã"ãiaã""e üith the ^. It will be the

^subject

of

a long essay to be

609

F.A.CULTY Ol. å.RTS 8.4,._SYLLá,BUSES cr-Ässrcs

(a,rcrrnr

rrrsronv)

A

course

of

lecfures concerned

with

the political and social history

of

^Greece

00-404

B.C,)

and Rome

ll33 B.C.-A.D--]80).

The- Ienfirres will'cssrrme the+

(600-404

B.C.)

and Rome (133 B.C.-4.D.-180). The lectures

will

ässume that students are

familiar with the

outline

of the

oeriods beinø treated-

and it

is

AC72

Ancient History

II.

Second ite:

AC01

Latin I or ACll

G¡eek

I or

ACS1

Classical _ry

IA, or AH_31 History

lB or

AIF.. L History IC

o/ A-POI io

exempted students,

No

knowledge

of

Éatin

or

Greek

À

student cannot count as .lubjects towards

his

degree

both

4,C72 Ancient

History II and any of the following: AC02 Larin III

AC03

Latin III,

ACf2 Greek ^-

II.

(öUU-4U4

ö.U.)

and Rome (133 B.C.-A.D. 180). The lectures

will

assume that students are

familiar with the

outline

of the

periods beins treated.

and it

is æsential that, before

tþ

_{_begiming}

of

each term, students

lhould

háve read at æsenüal that, betore

the

begiming

of

each term, students should have read at least once those parts of the iecommend

- _with

the neriorl least once those parts of the

recommend with

the neriod to be studied, The lectures on Greek

his

ffrst term,'those on Rom-an Republican

hi tory

⁽

133-27

those orr iìotnatt on Rom-an Republican

hi tory

⁽ 133-27

Imperial history

in

the third.

. ^An

^gssay !s

to

be

written

each term, Tutorials

will

be held on special topics throughout the year.

-

^Partg

^of

^{the syllabus may}

^be

examined separately during

the

year. ^passages from the âncient soulces máy be set

for

com¡rient.

Text-books which students should obtain:

Ehrenberg,

Y,,

From Solon

to

Socrates (Methuen University paperback), Cary, M., Historg of Rome (Macmillan); _or

SryXa¡{,

H. H.,

From the Gracchi.

to Nero

(Methuen University ^paper- back ).

Plutarch, Rise and

løIl ol

Athens (Penguin),

Plutarc\

Makers of Rome (Penguin).

Plutarch,

Fall of

the Roman Republic (penguin).

Suetonius, Tøeh:e Caesars (Penguin), Some useful books:

Greece:

AnÈrewes,

+., fh"

Greelcs (Hutchinson), republished

as

Creek societg (Penguin).

Bengtson,

H,,

The G¡eelæ and the Persians (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).

Bowra,

C, M.,

Períclean Athens (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).

Burn,

A.

R., Persia and the Grøeks (Arnold).

Claster,

l,

^N., Atheninn demoøacg

(Holg

Rinehart and Winston).

Forr_est,

\ry. G,,

The ernergence

of

Greek democraq¡

(World

University Library).

Jones,

A. H.

N{., Athenlan demactacg (Blackwell).

Kagan,

D.,

The outbreak of the Pel,oponnesianWa¡ (Cornell U.p,).

Kagan,

D,,

Probl,erns

ín

ancíent hístorg,

vol, t

(Macmillan).

Lewis,

N,,

The

fifth

centuru (HakJ<ert).

Meiggs,

R,

^Th,e Athenìan empire (O.U.P.).

Zimmern,

A.8,

The Greek commonuealth (O.U.p.).

Thucydides, trans, R, Warner (Penguin Classics).

Herodotus, trans.

A. de

Selincourt (Penguin Classics).

Roman Republic:

Heitla¡d, W. E.,

Th¿ Roman rcpublìc, vols.

II-[I

^(C.U.p.).

Cambridge ancíent htsto¡V, vols.

VI[-X

^(C.U.p.).

Brunt

P.

A t ubllc

(Chatto anil rffindus).

Kagan,

D.,

(Macmillan).

It"þgr., _(o.u.P.) _T. ^the

^founder

^{of the}

^empíre

Cowell,

F. R.,

Cícero and

the

Roman.

republic

(pelican), Balsdon, J. P.

V,

D.,

lulius

Caesar and Rome (Engbsh U.p.).

610

B.A._SYLLÂBUSES

cLassrcs (rroNouns

nrcnrr);

nnnlte

I"A,CULTY OF A'RTS

Appian, Roma¡ hístorg, vols.

III-IV

^(Loeb).

Cicero, Letters, ed. Wilkinson

(Arrow o¡

Hutchinson Paper-back).

Badian,

8.,

Roman ímperíalìsm ín the late

rcpublic

(Blackwell).

Dickinson, 1., Death of a republic (Macmillan).

Lewis,

N.,

and Reinhold,

M.,

Roman cíoilizotion,

vol. 1

(Columbia U.P.).

Syme, R., The Romøn reoolutíon

(Odord

paperback).

Roman Empire:

Âugustus, Res Gestae

Díoi Augustì (The

achìeoem.ents

of the

dùsírw Augustus), ed. P.

A, Brunt

and

J, M.

Moore (O.U.P.).

Tacitus, On àmperíal Rome,

tr.

Grant (Penguin),

Millar, F., The

Romøn etnpírc

anil its neighbwrs

(Weidenfeld and Nicolson).

Starr, C. G,, Ch¡ilíz¿tion and,the Caesars (Norton),

Lewis, N., and Reinhold, M. ^(eds.),

^Roman

cioílization, vol. II

(Coh:mbia U.P.).

Canbildge ane¿ent histora, vols.

X-XI

^(C.U.P.).

McMullen, R., Enemies

of

the Roman order (O.U.P.).

Wells, J., ^and

^Barrow,

R, H., Á short hixtorg of the

Roman empíre (Methuen).

Yavetz, 2., Plebs and Prínceps ⁽ O.U,P. ₎ .

HONOURS DEGREE.

AC99

Classics

for

the Honours degree

of

B,À.

Pre-requisite subjects: AC01

Latin 1,

AC02

Latin II and

AC03

Latin III;

ACll

Greek

I,

AC72 Greek

II

and AC13 Greek

IIL

The formal

work of

the ffnal Honours year consists mainly

of

rveekly essays

and tutorials, Essays

in

one term are devoted

to

literature, and

in

the other ts'o

to

history and society. Unseen t¡anslation

is

also practised.

The examination consists

of

the following three-hour papers:

(a)

Passages for translation into English from Greek prose authors and poets.

(b)

Passages

for

translation into English from

Latin

prose authors and poets.

(c)

Greek and

Latin

literature.

(d)

Greek and Roman history: Imperial Athens, and the Age

of

^Augustus.

(e)

Greek and Roman society, thought and religion,

A wide

choice

of

topics

will be

given

in

papers

(c), (d) and (e). In

^each paper candidates must answer questions

from both the

Greek and

the

Roman sections.