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Classics and Ancient History

Modules in Classics and Ancient History

Below is a list of modules recently taught in the Department. Please note that only a selection of modules are taught in any given year. Generally optional modules are taught on a 2-year rotation but this varies according to staff availability and the introduction of new modules.

1st year modules / 2nd year core module / 3rd year core module / List A modules / List B modules

1st Year Modules:

Term 1

Term 2

Study in Europe Degrees:

2nd Year Core Module:

3rd Year Core Module:

  •  (CX303-30)

2nd/3rd Year Options (2026/27 Modules are in BOLD):

  • Ancient History (List A)

  1. (CX248-30/CX348-30)
  2. (CX235-30/CX335-30)
  3. (CX252-30/CX352-30)
  4. (CX262-30/CX362-30)
  5. (available as Greek Text option) (CX257-15/CX357-15) (15 CAT, Term 1)
  6. (CX260-30/CX360-30)
  7. The Roman Empire from (available as Latin text option) (CX244-30/CX344-30)
  8. (available as Latin text option) (CX255-30/CX355-30)
  9. (CX263-30/CX363-30)
  10. The Roman Empire from Antoninus Pius to Severus Alexander (CX202-15/CX302-15) (15 CAT, Term 1)
  11. The Roman Empire in Crisis (CX200-15/CX300-15) (15 CAT, Term 2/3)
  12. (CX247-30/CX347-30)

  13. Retelling Myths in Greek and Roman Art (CX281-15/CX381-15) (15 CAT, Terms 2/3)

  14. Public Engagement in Classics(CX276-15, CX376-15) (15 CAT, Terms 2/3)

  15. The Roman Every Day (CX284-15, CX384-15)
  16. Health & the Environment from Antiquity to Renaissance Venice (CX291-15) (15 CAT, Term 3)

  • Archaeology, Art, Architecture (List A)

  1. (CX232-30/CX332-30) [2022/23]

    • 15 CATS: term 1 (Art and Architecture of Greek Asia Minor, CX23A-15, CX33A-15)

    • 15 CATS: term 2-3 (Art and Architecture of Roman Asia Minor, CX23B-15, CX33B-15)

  2. (CX246-30/CX346-30)
    • 15 CATS: Money and Coinage of Ancient Greece: term 1
    • 15 CATS: Money and Coinage of Ancient Rome: terms 2-3
    • 30 CATS: Coinage of Greece and Rome
  3. (CX254-30/CX354-30)
  4. (CX233-30/CX333-30)
  5. (CX209-30/CX309-30)
  6. Archaeological Fieldwork Module (CX386-15)
  7. The Art of Greek Death (available as Greek text option) (CX298-30/CX398-30)

  8. The Archaeology of Athens and Thebes (CX295-30/CX395-30) NEW FOR 2026-7

    • 15 CATS: The Archaeology of Athens (CX296/396-15): term 1
    • 15 CATS: The Archaeology of Thebes (CX297/397-15): terms 2-3

  • Literature in Translation or the Original Language (List B)

  1. The Politics of Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: New Mythologies of the Social (available as a Greek texts option, Terms 2/3) (CX266-15/CX366-15)
  2. (CX247-30/CX347-30)
  3. (available as Greek-text option) (CX267-30/CX367-30)
  4. (available as Latin text option) (CX264-30/CX364-30)
  5.  

  6. Roman Laughter (available as a Latin text option) (CX 268-30/368-30) 

  7. (available as Latin text option) (CX271-30/CX371-30)
  8. Songs, Texts, Theories: Greek Lyric Poetry (available as Greek text option) (CX272-30/CX372-30)
  9. Epic & Epyllion (Available as a Latin text option) (CX230-30/CX330-30)
  10. Horace, Authority and Authoritarianism (available as a Latin text option, 15 CATS Term 1)(CX282-15, CX382-15)
  11. Metamorphosis in Latin Poetry (available as a Latin text option, 15 CATS Terms 2/3) (CX280-15, CX380-15)

  12. Greek Myth: Narratives, Sources, Approaches (available as Greek text option) (CX279-15, CX379-15)(15 CAT, Term 1)

  13. RetellingMyths in Greek and Roman Art (CX281-15/CX381-15) (15 CAT, Terms 2/3)

  14. Public Engagement in Classics (CX276-15, CX376-15) (15 CAT, Terms 2/3)

  15. Fighting (for) Rome: Narratives of War in Roman HistoriographyLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (CX285-15, CX385-15)
  16. Writing in Greek Under Rome: Protagonists and Trends in Imperial Greek LiteratureLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (CX283-15, CX383-15)

  17. Image and Text in Late Antique Latin poetry (CX287-15, CX387-15) (available as a Latin Texts option, 15 CATS, term 1)

  18. Roman Sexual Poetics: Navigating Sex, Sexuality and Gender in Latin PoetryLink opens in a new window (available as Latin text option) (CX289-30, CX389-30)
  19. The Art of Greek Death (available as a Greek text option) (CX298-30/CX398-30)
  20. Greek Ecphrasis (15 CAT, term 2) NEW FOR 2026-7
  21. Poetless Poems: Oddity, Authorship & the Appendix Virgiliana (15 CAT, term 2) (available as Latin text option) NEW FOR 2026-7
  22. The Question of Grief: Seneca's consolations and modern grief-writing (15 CAT, term 1) (available as Latin text option) NEW FOR 2026-7

  • Greek & Latin Texts in the Original (List B)

  1. Greek Language 1(CX120-15/CX220-15) (15 CATS, term 1)
  2. (CX126-15/CX226-15) (15 CATS, term 2)
  3. (CX106-30/CX206-30/CX306-30)
  4. 1 (CX115-15/CX215-15) (15 CATS, term 1)
  5. (CX101-15/CX201-15) (15 CATS, term 2)
  6. (CX136-30/CX236-30/CX336-30)

Study in Europe Degree 4th Year students returning from Italy: you may opt to take an Italian module, either (progressing from IT211) or (progressing from IT301)

Important notice: advice for second and third year students on taking language modules

Students are permitted to take language modules taught at the University's Language Centre (located on the ground floor of Humanities). However, students are not permitted to take Language Centre modules whose levels are lower than university-level study. These can instead be studied in your spare time in every year of study. For your degree, students can take a language at the Language Centre at Level 5 Advanced 1 in their second year; and Level 6 Advanced 2 in their third year []. Students may opt for an Accelerated Beginners' 'Academic language module' at the Language Centre, provided that they have not registered to take more than 30 CATS at this level (or as 1-coded external module) over their Honours-level years of study (ie Year 2 or above). Students who want to study a Language Centre module as part of their degree need to speak to their personal tutor, in order to obtain approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Students may, however, also investigate academic modules in Italian, German or Spanish within the School for Modern Languages and Cultures.

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