The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 264):
Part IA
Passages to be set from the following schedule:
Paper 1. Lysias 1; Thucydides 1.1-12, 20-23; Homer, Odyssey 19 and 20; Herodotus 1.1-70; Plato, Crito; Euripides, Trojan Women.
Paper 2. Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 line 100 to end; Plato, Crito; Euripides, Trojan Women.
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. 1-38, 62-75.
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 Tacitus.
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, Trojan Women; Plato, Laches; Thucydides 2.1-65.
Topic 2. Dramatic women
Schedule A: (1) Euripides, Hippolytus; (2) Sophocles, Antigone; (3) Aristophanes, Lysistrata.
Schedule B: Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Sophocles, Trachiniae; Euripides, Medea; Euripides, Helen.
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. - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2010
Paper 6. Latin literature
Topic 1. - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2010
Topic 2. Roman humour
To be confirmed.
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. 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.
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) Tacitus.
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
Sophocles and myth.
Paper A3. Prescribed Latin texts
Horace, Epodes and Odes I-III.
Paper A4. Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts
Sophocles, Electra 1-515; Catullus 1-3, 4-15, 62-3.
GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)
Paper B1. Plato
Plato, Theaetetus.
Paper B2. Aristotle
Aristotle on nature and change (Physics books II-IV).
Paper B3. A prescribed subject or period in Greek and Roman philosophy
Pleasure.
GROUP C (HISTORY)
Paper C1. A prescribed period or subjects of Greek history
The Greeks and the supernatural: magic, oracles, and religion in archaic and classical Greece.
Paper C2. A prescribed period or subject of Roman history
Knowledge, wealth, and power in the Roman Empire.
Paper C3. A prescribed subject taken from ancient history
Athens after Alexander.
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
The art of collecting (in) Greece and Rome.
Paper D3. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art
The poetics of classical art.
Paper D4. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art
Roman cities.
GROUP E (LANGUAGE)
Paper E1. Elements of comparative linguistics
Paper E2. E pluribus unum: The making of Greek
Paper E3. Latin and the Greek language
GROUP X
Paper X1. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time
Death.
Paper X2. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time
Sexual ethics in Greco-Roman antiquity.
GROUP O
Paper O1. General linguistics (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 NL 1 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 CS 1 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).