Cambridge University Reporter


Classical Tripos, 2010: Amendment to prescribed subjects and books

Further to their Notices of 18 June 2008 (Reporter, 2007-08, p. 878) and 1 October 2008 (Reporter, 2008-09, p. 27) the Faculty Board of Classics give notice of the following changes and additions to the prescribed subjects and books for the Classical Tripos, 2010 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 276)

Part IA

Passages to be set from the following schedule:

Paper 3. Virgil, Aeneid 9, lines 176-502; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, sections 1-3, 36-end; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21, sections 1-4, 26-63; Lucretius 3, lines 1-462, 741-1094.

Paper 4. Virgil, Aeneid 9, lines 176-502; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, sections 1-3, 36-end; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21, sections 1-4, 26-63.

Part IB

Paper 5. Greek Literature

Topic 3. Mythical Narratives

Schedule A: (1) Hesiod, Theogony (2) Aesop 102, 228, 229, 292; Plato, Symposium (189a-193e) and Protagoras (320c-324c); Lucian, Prometheus (3) Ps-Aeschylus Prometheus Bound.

Schedule B: Hesiod, Works and Days; Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Pindar, Olympians 1, 6, 7, 9; Aristophanes, Birds; Diodorus 1.1-29; Ps.-Apollodorus 1.1-7; Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis.