Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

A typical week (Year 1)

• Lectures (4-6 per week)
• Team-taught classes (one per week for the first two terms)
• Tutorials (one every one to two weeks) and/or language classes

A typical week (Years 2-3)

You will take six options and produce a site or museum report. Currently, the options are chosen from:

• Integrated classes, bringing together historical and archaeological approaches to a particular period
• Core papers, which deal with central topics in Greco-Roman studies
• Further papers, which allow you either to build up concentrated expertise in some central areas and periods or to extend into earlier and later periods, and into non-classical cultures
• Greek or Latin language papers.

Tutorials are usually two students (possibly three) and a tutor; a larger group is normally defined as a class.

Where options are taught in classes, the class size will depend on the options you choose. They would usually be no more than 10 students. For the core papers the class size is usually eight or less.

Most tutorials, classes, and lectures are delivered by staff who are tutors in their subject. Many are world-leading experts with years of experience in teaching and research.

Some teaching may also be delivered by postgraduate students who are studying at doctorate level. To find out more about how our teaching year is structured, visit our Academic Year page.

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Assessment

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Four courses are taken
Core elements:

• Aristocracy and democracy in the Greek world, 550–450 BC
• Republic to empire: Rome, 50 BC to AD 50

Current optional elements:

• Archaeology: Homeric archaeology and early Greece from 1550 to 700 BC; Greek vases; Greek sculpture c600– 300 BC; Roman architecture
• History: Thucydides and the West; Aristophanes’ political comedy; Cicero and Catiline; Tacitus and Tiberius
• Ancient Languages: Beginning Ancient Greek or Latin; Intermediate Ancient Greek or Latin; Advanced Ancient Greek or Latin

First University examinations: four written papers