Reporter 21/6/00: Classical Tripos, 2002: Prescribed subjects and books

Classical Tripos, 2002: Prescribed subjects and books

The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, 2002 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 249):

Part I

Paper 5. Greek literature

Topic 1. The Iliad and responses to it

Schedule A: Iliad 1, 3, 6; Iliad 9, 18; Iliad 21, 24.

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

Topic 2. Comedy

Schedule A: Aristophanes, Acharnians; Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazousai; Menander, Dyscolus.

Schedule B: Aristophanes, Clouds; Aristophanes, Birds; Aristophanes, Lysistrata; Aristophanes, Frogs; Menander, Epitrepontes; Menander, Samia.

Topic 3. The House of Atreus

Schedule A: Aeschylus, Agamemnon; Sophocles, Electra; Euripides, Electra.

Schedule B: Aeschylus, Choephoroi; Aeschylus, Eumenides; Euripides, Iphigeneia at Tauris; Euripides, Orestes; Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulis.

Topic 4. Love stories

Schedule A: Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Sappho 1, 16, 31, Archilochus, 'Cologne Epode'; Plato, Symposium; 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: Propertius 1; Tibullus 1; 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: Virgil, Eclogues, Virgil, Georgics 4.116-48; 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; 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: Lucan 8; Seneca, Thyestes; 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: Virgil, Aeneid 6; Cicero, Tusculans 1; Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.

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

Paper 7. Greek and Roman history

The paper will contain questions on the following topics:

Imperial Athens; Spartan government and society; Roman politics: Republican and Imperial; The later Roman Empire; Alexander the Great: myth, mission, and succession; Roman religion;

and on the following topics relating to both Greece and Rome:

Slavery; Families in the ancient world.

Paper 8. Greek and Roman philosophy

Plato, Republic 473c11-535a1; Lucretius, De rerum natura II 61-332, 730-1022, III 94-416, 830-1094.

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 Tragedy and politics.
Paper A3.	Prescribed Latin texts Ovid, Metamorphoses.
Paper A4.	Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts Sophocles, O.T. 911-1525; Catullus 1, 51-62, 65-6.
GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)
Paper B1.	Plato Plato, Theaetetus.
Paper B2.	Aristotle Aristotle, Physics II.
Paper B3.	A prescribed subject or period in Greek and Roman philosophy Politics and Poetics.
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 Power and Dependence: Modes of control in the Roman household and society, c. 50 B.C. - c. A.D. 300.
Paper C3.	A prescribed subject taken from ancient history Money in the Ancient World.
Paper C4.	A subject in ancient history (Paper 12 of Part II of the Historical Tripos). Transformation of the Roman world.
GROUP D (ARCHAEOLOGY)
Paper D2.	A prescribed subject connected with early Hellenic archaeology or early Greek art Early Hellenic archaeology.
Paper D3.	A prescribed subject connected with Classical (Greco-Roman) art or the archaeology of the Greek and Hellenistic world Classical (Greco-Roman) art.
Paper D4.	A prescribed subject connected with the archaeology of the Roman world or with Roman art Archaeology of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire.
GROUP E (LANGUAGE)
Paper E2.	Greek from Alexander to the Fall of Constantinople Prescribed texts will be photocopied and distributed to the class.
Paper E3.	Latin as a World Language: from Classicism to Christianity 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 (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.	Not on offer.
Paper O8.	Judaism and Hellenism (Paper D2(d), Theological and Religious Studies Tripos - New Regulations).
Paper O9.	Early medieval literature and its background (Paper 8 of Part I of the English Tripos).
Paper O10.	Transformation of the Roman world (Paper 12 of Part II of the Historical 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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