Literae Humaniores

Honour Moderations in Classics IA, B and C | Honour Moderations in Classics IIA | Honour Moderations in Classics IIB | Honour School of Literae Humaniores I & II

Honour Moderations in Classics IA, B and C 

I: Homer

• : Homer, Iliad

II: Virgil

• : Virgil, Aeneid

III, IV: Texts and Contexts

• : Texts and Contexts

V: Philosophy

You must choose one Philosophy Special Subject, from either Group A or Group B listed below. NB:
Early Greek Philosophy option is only available in IA and IC. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura IV is not available in IA
Candidates may not combine a subject from Group B with a Classical Special Subject (VI) from Group E.

• A.1: Early Greek Philosophy
• A.2: Plato, Euthyphro and Meno
• A.3: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura IV
• B.1: General Philosophy
• B.2: Moral Philosophy
• B.3: Introduction to Logic

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VI: Classical Special Subject

You must offer one Classical Special Subject, chosen from one of the groups C-F. You may not combine a subject from Group E with a Philosophy Special Subject (IV) from Group B.

• C.1: Thucydides and the West
• C.2: Aristophanes' Political Comedy
• D.1: Cicero and Catiline
• D.2: Tacitus and Tiberius
• E.1: Homeric Archaeology and Early Greece from 1550 to 700 BC
• E.2: Greek Vases
• E.3: Greek Sculpture c.600 - 300 BC
• E.4: Roman Architecture
• F.1: Historical Linguistics and Comparative Philology

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VII: Greek Translation

Not available to Mods IIA candidates.
Different papers for different courses, as appropriate. Normally one passage in prose, one in verse.

VIII: Latin Translation

Not available to Mods IIB candidates.
Different papers for different courses, as appropriate. Normally one passage in prose, one in verse.

IX: Greek Language

• : Greek Language

X: Latin Language

• : Latin Language

XI: Optional Paper

Verse Composition or Additional Translation or Additional Translation and Metre.

• : Optional Paper: Verse Composition or Additional Translation

Honour Moderations in Classics IIA 

I: Virgil

• : Virgil, Aeneid

II, III: Texts and Contexts

• : Texts and Contexts

IV: Philosophy

You must choose one Philosophy Special Subject, chosen from Group A or Group B.

• 1: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura IV
• 2: Early Greek Philosophy
• 3: Plato, Euthyphro and Meno
• 4: General Philosophy
• 5: Moral Philosophy
• 6: Introduction to Logic

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V: Classical Special Subject

You must offer one Classical Special Subject, chosen from one of the groups D-F.

• D.1: Cicero and Catiline
• D.2: Tacitus and Tiberius
• E.1: Homeric Archaeology and Early Greece from 1550 to 700 BC
• E.2: Greek Vases
• E.3: Greek Sculpture c.600 - 300 BC
• E.4: Roman Architecture
• F.1: Historical Linguistics and Comparative Philology

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VI: Latin Translation

Not available to Mods IIB candidates.
Different papers for different courses, as appropriate. Normally one passage in prose, one in verse.

VII: Latin Language

• : Latin Language

VIII: Optional Paper

Verse Composition or Additional Translation or Additional Translation and Metre.

• : Optional Paper: Verse Composition or Additional Translation

Honour Moderations in Classics IIB 

I: Homer

• : Homer, Iliad

II, III: Texts and Contexts

• : Texts and Contexts

IV: Philosophy

You must choose one Philosophy Special Subject from:

• 1: Early Greek Philosophy
• 2: Plato, Euthyphro and Meno
• 3: General Philosophy
• 4: Moral Philosophy
• 5: Introduction to Logic

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V: Classical Special Subject

You must offer one Classical Special Subject, chosen from one of the groups C-F.

• C.1: Thucydides and the West
• C.2: Aristophanes' Political Comedy
• E.1: Homeric Archaeology and Early Greece from 1550 to 700 BC
• E.2: Greek Vases
• E.3: Greek Sculpture c.600 - 300 BC
• E.4: Roman Architecture
• F.1: Historical Linguistics and Comparative Philology

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VI: Greek Translation

Not available to Mods IIA candidates.
Different papers for different courses, as appropriate. Normally one passage in prose, one in verse.

VII: Greek Language

• : Greek Language

VIII: Optional Paper

Verse Composition or Additional Translation or Additional Translation and Metre.

• : Optional Paper: Verse Composition or Additional Translation

Honour School of Literae Humaniores I & II 

In Greats students will pick eight subjects, drawn from the branches

• Ancient History (up to five subjects)
• Philosophy (up to five subjects)
• Greek and Latin Literature (up to five subjects)
• Philology and Linguistics (up to two subjects, or three if one is a thesis)
• Greek and Roman Archaeology (up to two subjects, or three if one is a thesis)
• Second Classical Language (Course II only: this allows students, but does not require them, to study Latin if they have worked on Greek in the first part of the course, or Greek if they have worked on Latin. This counts as two subjects for those taking this option, and reduces the maximum to four subjects for these students in Ancient History, Philosophy, and Classical Literature).

At least four subjects of the eight (or three other subjects for those taking Second Classical Language) need to be text-based, i.e. require knowledge of the texts in the original Greek or Latin.

Course I Candidates may offer up to a maximum of five subjects from I-16 below. Candidates offereing more than three subjects must offer both III.1 and III.2; candidates offering more than one must offer III.1 Or III.2, and may offer both. Only one of papers III.3, 4, 7, 15(b) and 15(e) maty be offered.

Course II Candidates may offer up to a maximum of five subjects from I-16 below, or four if they take IV, Second Classical Language. Candidates offereing more than one subject must offer III.1 or III.2, and may offer both. Only one of papers III.3, 4, 7, 15(b) and 15(e) may be offered. The subjects which will be on offer will be the following:

I: Greek and Roman History Periods

Candidates may offer up to five subjects (or up to four if they are offering Second Classical Language in Course II). If they offer more than one subject, at least one must be taken from A below; if tyheyoffer more than three subjects, at least two must be taken from A; if they offer five subjects, at least three must be taken from A. Subjects fronm A must be taken with the associated translation papers from D below.

• I.1: The Early Greek World and Herodotus' Histories: 650 to 479 BC
• I.2: Thucydides and the Greek World: 479 BC to 403 BC
• I.3: The End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Philip II of Macedon: 403 BC to 336 BC
• I.4: Polybius, Rome and the Mediterranean: 241 BC to 146 BC
• I.5: Republic in Crisis: 146 BC to 46 BC
• I.6: Rome, Italy and Empire from Caesar to Claudius: 46 BC to AD 54

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I: Greek and Roman History Topics

• I.7: Athenian Democracy in the Classical Age
• I.8: Alexander the Great and his early Successors
• I.9: The Hellenistic World: societies and cultures, ca. 300 B.C. -100 B.C.
• I.10: Cicero: Politics and Thought in the Late Republic
• I.11: Politics, Society and Culture from Nero to Hadrian
• I.12: Religions in the Greek and Roman World from c.31 BC to AD 312
• I.13: Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome
• I.14: Thesis in Ancient History

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II: Philosophy

You may offer up to five subjects in Philosophy from the list below (four for Course II students taking the Second Classical Language).
If you offer only one Philosophy subject, you have a free choice except for subject 199, Thesis. If you offer two Philosophy subjects, at least one of them must be in ancient philosophy, i.e. one of 115, 116, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 134 and 135. Those offering three or more subjects must also offer one subject from 101, 102, 103, and 108. If you offer 199, Thesis in Philosophy, you must offer three or four other subjects in Philosophy.

At least four out of your eight Greats papers must be text based. The text based philosophy papers are 130, 131, 132, 133, 134 (Greek) and 135 (Latin).

In the list below, the number in parentheses after a paper's number indicate other papers with which it may not be combined.

Normal Prerequisites (indicated by NP)
In the paper descriptions you will find that some subjects are named as 'normal prerequisites' for the study of others. For instance: 112 The Philosophy of Kant (NP 101) means that those studying 112, Kant, would normally be expected to have studied 101 (History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant). It may be inadvisable to study a subject if you have not met the designated prerequisite, and if you propose to do so you must consult your tutor beforehand.

• 101: History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant
• 102: Knowledge and Reality
• 103: Ethics
• 104: Philosophy of Mind (NP 101 or 102)
• 105 [106] or [124]: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Psychology and Neuroscience (NP 101 or 102)
• 106 [105] or [124]: Philosophy of Science and Social Science (NP 101 or 102)
• 107: Philosophy of Religion (NP 101 or 102)
• 108: The Philosophy of Logic and Language (NP Mods Logic)
• 109: Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism (NP 101 or 102 or 103 or 104 or 115/130 or 116/132)
• 110 [111]: Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas
• 111 [110]: Medieval Philosophy: Duns Scotus and Ockham
• 112: The Philosophy of Kant (NP 101)
• 113: Post-Kantian Philosophy (NP 101 or 102 or 103 or 112 or 115/130 or 116/132)
• 114: Theory of Politics (NP 103 or 115/130 or 116/132)
• 115 [130]: Plato: Republic (in translation)
• 116 [132]: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (in translation)
• 117 [118]: Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein (NP Mods Logic)
• 118 [117]: The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein (NP 101 or 102 or 108)
• 119: Formal Logic (NP Mods Logic)
• 120: Intermediate Philosophy of Physics
• 122: Philosophy of Mathematics (NP 101 or 102 or 108 or 117 or 119 or 120)
• 124 [105] or [106] : Philosophy of Science (NP 101 or 102)
• 130 [115]: Plato: Republic (in Greek)
• 131: Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist (in Greek)
• 132 [116]: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (in Greek)
• 133: Aristotle: Physics (in Greek)
• 134: Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism (in Greek)
• 135: Latin Philosophy (in Latin)
• 199: Thesis in Philosophy

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III: Greek and Latin Literature

Course I students who offer two or three of these subjects must offer at least one of III.1 and III.2 (Greek and Latin ‘core’ papers), and may offer both; those offering four or five subjects must offer both. Course II students who offer two or more subjects must offer one of III.1 and III.2, and may offer both.

Options marked with double asterisk ** combine Greek and Latin texts. Course II candidates may offer a version which requires knowledge in the original of texts in only one of the languages.

Links give references to the current syllabus, if a similar paper already exists; there will be at least some changes to the details stated there for the version in New Greats.

• 1: Greek Literature of the 5th Century BC
• 2: Latin Literature of the 1st Century BC
• 3**: Historiography
• 4**: Lyric Poetry
• 5: Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
• 6: Greek Tragedy
• 7**: Comedy
• 8: Hellenistic Poetry
• 9: Cicero
• 10: Ovid
• 11: Latin Didactic
• 12: Neronian Literature
• 13: Euripides, Orestes: papyri, manuscripts, text
• 14 (a) or: Seneca, Agamemnon: manuscripts, text, interpretation
• 14 (b) or: Catullus: manuscripts, text, interpretation
• 15 (a) or: The Conversion of Augustine
• 15 (b) or: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Hexameter Poetry
• 15 (c) or: Byzantine Literature
• 15 (d) or: Modern Greek Poetry
• 15 (e) or: The Reception of Classical Literature in Poetry in English since 1900
• 16: Thesis in Literature

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IV: Greek and Roman Archaeology

Course I and Course II : candidates may offer one or two of the following subjects 1-4, and may, if they wish, offer subject 5 as well. Each of subjects 1-4 will be examined in one paper ( 3 hrs). They may also offer subject 5 as their sole Archaeology subject.

• IV.1: The Greeks and the Mediterranean World c.950 B.C. - 500 B.C.
• IV.2: Greek Art and Archaeology from c.500 to 300 B.C.
• IV.3: Art under the Roman Empire, AD 14-337
• IV.4: Cities and Settlement under the Roman Empire
• IV.5: Thesis in Greek and Roman Archaeology

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V: Philology and Linguistics

In both Course I and Course II students may offer one or two of V.1-4 , and may if they wish offer IV.5 as well.
Paper V.4 may not be offered by anyone who took the special subject Historical Linguistics and Comparative Philology in Mods.

• V.1: Greek Historical Linguistics
• V.2: Latin Historical Linguistics
• V.3: General Linguistics and Comparative Philology
• V.4: Comparative Philology: Indo-European, Greek and Latin
• V.5: Thesis in Philology and Linguistics

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VI: Second Classical Language

Second Classical Language is available only in Course II. Those who studied Latin in Classical Moderations may now study Greek; those who studied Greek in Classical Moderations may now study Latin. In each case two verse texts and two prose texts are studied in the original.

• VI.I (a): Second Classical Language: Verse: Homer and Euripides
• VI.I (b): Second Classical Language: Verse: Virgil and Ovid
• VI.2 (a): Second Classical Language: Prose: Plato and Herodotus
• VI.2 (b): Second Classical Language: Prose: Cicero and Seneca

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VII: Theses

Many candidates now offer a thesis as one of their eight options (I.14, II.199, III.16, IV.5, and V.5 above). Only one thesis can be offered in this way. It is also possible to offer a ‘special thesis’ as an extra, ninth option, and a small number of students do this each year. Those doing this are allowed to offer a second thesis as one of the eight options.

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