Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature

Master of Philosophy in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature 

A:

Options in section A are examined by two methods: submission of three pre-submitted essays and a written paper (three hours) which contains passages for translation and comment. Papers in section B are examined by different methods; they are fully laid out in the Examination Decrees.
For the Mphil, texts in the α section are set for translation and commentary, while texts in the β section are set for translation only.

In 1-11, passages for translation and comment will be set from the editions listed in the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. The editions to be used for any approved subject will be specified by the Graduate Studies Committee in Classics.

• 1: Historiography
• 2: Lyric Poetry
• 3: Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
• 4: Greek Tragedy
• 5: Comedy
• 6: Hellenistic Poetry
• 7: Cicero
• 8: Ovid
• 9: Latin Didactic
• 10: Neronian Literature
• 11: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Hexameter Poetry
• 12: Approved Subject

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B:

• 1: The transmission of Greek texts, and the elements of palaeography and textual criticism
• 2: The transmission of Latin texts, and the elements of palaeography and textual criticism
• 3: Greek Papyrology, with special reference to literary papyri
• 4: Comparative Philology, with special reference to the history of the Greek and/or Latin Language
• 5: Theory and methodology of classical literary studies
• 6: Intermediate Greek
• 7: Intermediate Latin
• 8: Approved Subject

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C: Dissertation

All dissertations submitted in Group C will be automatically considered for the Gaisford Dissertation Prize.

• 1: Thesis

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