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Classical Tripos, 2005: Prescribed subjects and books

The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, Part IA and Part IB, 2005 (New Regulations, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 259):

Part Ia

Passages to be set from the following schedule:

Paper 1. Lysias 1, Xenophon, Apology of Socrates; Homer, Odyssey 9 and 10; Herodotus 3.27-88; Plato, Ion; Euripides, Hippolytus.

Paper 2. Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 9.105-end; Plato, Ion; Euripides, Hippolytus.

Paper 3. Virgil, Aeneid 9; Cicero, In Catilinam 1 and 2; Ovid, Amores 2; Tacitus, Annals 4.1-38, 62-75; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.1-510, 635-950.

Paper 4. Virgil, Aeneid 9.176-502; Cicero, In Catilinam 1; Ovid, Amores 2; Tacitus, Annals 4.1-3, 32-3, 37-75.

Designated books for Paper 5, Section (a): Lysias 1 and Cicero, In Catilinam 1.

Designated authors:

Paper 7. Lysias and Plato.

Paper 8. Cicero (speeches) and the younger Seneca (letters and dialogues).

Part Ib

Paper 5. Greek literature

Topic 1. The Iliad and responses to it.

Schedule A: (1) Iliad 1, 3, 6 (2) Iliad 21, 24 (3) Iliad 9, 18.

Schedule B: Odyssey 11; Sophocles, Ajax; Euripides, Troades; Plato, Laches; Thucydides 2.1-65.

Topic 2. The House of Atreus

Schedule A: (1) Sophocles, Electra (2) Euripides, Electra (3) Aeschylus, Agamemnon.

Schedule B: Aeschylus, Choephoroi; Aeschylus, Eumenides; Euripides, Iphigeneia among the Taurians; Euripides, Orestes; Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulis.

Topic 3. The Second Sophistic

Schedule A: (1) Achilles Tatius Books 1, 2 (2) Lucian Somnium, Vera Historia A, Imagines (3) Dio Euboicus, Plutarch Conjugalia Praecepta.

Schedule B: Achilles Tatius 3-8, Lucian Pro Imaginibus, Vera Historia B, Plutarch Demetrius and Anthony, Philostratus Lives of the Sophists, Alciphron Letters of Prostitutes.

Topic 4. Love stories

Schedule A: (1) Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Sappho 1, 16, 31, Archilochus, 'Cologne Epode' (2) Plato, Symposium (3) Theocritus 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 13.

Schedule B: Odyssey 6; Sophocles, Trachiniae; Apollonius, Argonautica 3; Longus, Daphnis and Chloe; Plutarch, Amatorius.

Paper 6. Latin literature

Topic 1. Roman love elegy

Schedule A: (1) Propertius 1 (2) Tibullus 1 (3) Ovid, Amores 1.

Schedule B: Catullus 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 36, 37, 51, 58, 68, 70, 72, 75, 76, 79, 85, 87, 92, 104, 107, 109; Horace, Epodes 11, 14, 15; Horace, Odes 1.33; 2.9; 3.10; Propertius 2, 3; Tibullus 2; Ovid, Amores 3; Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1; Ovid, Remedia Amoris.

Topic 2. The countryside in Roman urbanity

Schedule A: (1) Virgil, Eclogues, Virgil, Georgics 4.116-48; (2) Horace, Satires 1.8, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6; Horace, Epode 2; Horace, Odes 2.15, 3.13, 18, 23; Horace, Epistles 1.10, 14, 16; (3) Statius Silvae 1.3, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3, 4.5; Ps.-Virgil, Moretum.

Schedule B: Varro, De re rustica 3; Ovid, Medicamina; Grattius, Cynegetica; Seneca, Epistles 86; Columella, De re rustica 10; Pliny, Natural Histories 19; Ps.-Virgil, Copa; Pliny Letters 1.6, 2.17, 3.19, 5.6, 9.36.

Topic 3. The Neronian Period. Spectacles of power and the inner self

Schedule A: (1) Lucan 8 (2) Seneca, Thyestes (3) Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis.

Schedule B: Lucan 9; Persius 1, 5, 6; Calpurnius Siculus 1, 4, 7; Seneca, Epistles (as in Costa); Seneca, Medea; Suetonius, Nero; Tacitus, Annals 15.

Topic 4. Life and afterlife

Schedule A: (1) Cicero, Tusculans 1 (2) Ovid, Metamorphoses 15 (3) Virgil, Aeneid 6.

Schedule B: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Cicero, Pro Archia; Lucretius 3; Propertius 4.7; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis; Pliny, Letters 7.27.

Paper 8.

Greek and Roman philosophy

 Plato, Republic 473c11-535a1.
 

Paper 11.

Translation from English into Greek prose and verse

 Designated authors: Lysias and Plato.
 

Paper 12.

Translation from English into Latin prose and verse

 Designated authors: Cicero (speeches) and the younger Seneca (letters and dialogues).
 

Part II

GROUP A (LITERATURE)

Paper A1.

A prescribed Greek author or authors, and a prescribed Latin author or authors

 Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid.
 

Paper A2.

Prescribed Greek texts

 Apollo and Dionysus in Greek Literature.
 

Paper A3.

Prescribed Latin texts

 Apuleius, Metamorphoses.
 

Paper A4.

Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts

 Sophocles, O.T. 911-1525; Catullus 1-3, 27-45, 62-3.
 
GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)

Paper B1.

Plato

 Plato, Theaetetus.
 

Paper B2.

Aristotle

 Aristotle's moral and political thought.
 

Paper B3.

A prescribed subject or period in Greek and Roman philosophy Accident or Design?

 
GROUP C (HISTORY)

Paper C1.

A prescribed period or subject of Greek history

 Societies and Economies of the Ancient Greek World.
 

Paper C2.

A prescribed period or subject of Roman history

 A history of Roman Britain.
 

Paper C3.

A prescribed subject taken from ancient history

 Rome and the Greek East from Pyrrhus to Sulla.
 

Paper C4.

A subject in ancient history or medieval European history

 Transformation of the Roman world.
 
GROUP D (ARCHAEOLOGY)

Paper D1.

Aegean prehistory

Paper D2.

A topic within classical archaeology and/or art

 Mediterranean landscapes (Italy, 800 BC - AD 500).
 

Paper D3.

A topic within classical archaeology and/or art

 The classical body.
 

Paper D4.

A topic within classical archaeology and/or art

 The archaeology of Roman urbanism.
 
GROUP E (LANGUAGE)

Paper E2.

The Greek language: Greek from Mycenae to Homer

 Prescribed texts will be photocopied and distributed to the class.
 

Paper E3.

The Latin language: The origins and early history of Latin

 Prescribed texts will be photocopied and distributed to the class.
 
GROUP X

Paper X2.

A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time

 Classics in the twentieth century.
 

Paper X3.

A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time

 Cultural identity in the Ancient World.
 
GROUP O
Paper O1. Introduction to linguistic theory (Paper Li.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
Paper O2. Greek literature, thought, and history, since 1900 (Paper Gr. 6 of Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
Paper O3. Tragedy (Paper 2 of Part II of the English Tripos).
Paper O4. History and theory of literary criticism (Paper 9 of Part II of the English Tripos).
Paper O5.Metaphysics and the philosophy of mind (Paper 1 of Part IB of the Philosophy Tripos).
Paper O6.History of political thought to c. 1700 (Paper 19 of Part I of the Historical Tripos).
Paper O7. Introduction to Neo-Latin literature, 1350-1700 (Paper NL1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
Paper O8.Judaism and Hellenism (Paper D2(d), Theological and Religious Studies Tripos).
Paper O9.Early medieval literature and its contexts (Paper 10 of Part I of the English Tripos).
Paper O10. The Romance languages (Paper CS1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
Paper O11.Classical traditions in the sciences (Paper 1 in History and Philosophy of Science of Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos).
Paper O12.The practice of archaeology I (Paper A2 in Archaeology of Part IIA of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos).


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