Cambridge University Reporter


Classical Tripos, 2008: Amendment to prescribed subjects and books

The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that, in an amendment to their Notice of 21 June 2006 (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 759), the entry for the Classical Tripos, Part IB, Paper 6 (Latin literature) should read as follows:

Paper 6. Latin literature

Topic 1. Roman love elegy. Not available for examination in 2008.

Topic 2. Roman humour. (Unchanged)
   Schedule A: (1) Plautus, Asinaria (2) Phaedrus, Book 5; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis (3) Horace, Satires Book 1. Schedule B: Terence, Hautontimorumenus; Catullus 10, 21, 29, 31, 36, 41, 42, 43, 50, 53, 56, 57, 93, 94, 105, 114, 115; Cicero, In Pisonem; Cicero, De Oratore 2.216-90; Martial Book 10; Macrobius, Saturnalia 2.5.1-10.

Topic 3. The Neronian period: Spectacles of power and the inner self. (This topic is now available for examination.)
   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.

The originally scheduled Topic 4, Roman letters, is not available for examination in 2008, and is replaced by:

Topic 4. Youth at Rome: myths and contexts.
   Schedule A: (1) Virgil, Aeneid 7 (2) Statius, Achilleid 1 & 2 (3) Apuleius, Cupid & Psyche     Schedule B: Catullus 61-68; Horace, Odes 1.37, 3.2, 4.4, 4.14; Horace, Satires 1.6; Ovid, Heroides 6, 16, 17; Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.55-166, 4.274-388, 9.666-797, 12.146-535; Ps.-Quintilian, Declamations 258, 315, 317; Seneca, Controversiae 4.pr., 4.1, 4.5, 4.6; Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds & Sayings 3.1, 3.4, 3.5; Virgil, Aeneid 5.545-699.

The Faculty Board are satisfied that no student will be disadvantaged by this amendment.