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, 2007 (New Regulations, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 251):
Passages to be set from the following schedule:
Paper 1. Lysias 1; Thucydides 1.1-12, 20-23; Homer, Odyssey 9 and 10; Herodotus 1.1-70; Plato, Ion; Euripides, Trojan Women.
Paper 2. Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 9.105-end; Plato, Ion; 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.
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. Mythical narratives - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2006 AND 2007
Schedule A: (1) Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (2) Homeric Hymn to Demeter (3) Bacchylides 3, 5, 17, and 18.
Schedule B: Pindar Olympians 1, 6, and 7; Pindar Pythian 3 and Nemean 10; Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Plato's Symposium 189-193 (myth of Aristophanes); Callimachus Hymn 5 and 6.
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. Roman humour - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2007
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
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. Roman letters
Schedule A: (1) Cicero Select Letters (as in D. R. Shackleton Bailey): 3, 7, 9, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 29, 34, 35, 38, 44, 45, 48, 52, 53, 59, 63, 67, 76 (2) Catullus 68. 1-40; Horace Epistles 1.3, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12; Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 4.11, Tristia 5.13, Heroides 1 (3) Pliny, Epistles Book 1.
Schedule B: Seneca, Epistles 5, 11, 15, 18, 28, 43, 53, 63, 77, 80, 84, 87, 107; A selection of letters by or in Aurelius Archelaus, Marcus Aurelius, Catiline, Fronto, Jerome, Petronius, Plautus, Pliny, Claudia Severa, Claudius Terentianus, and Julius Victor (Letters 5, 9, 16, 17, 22, 26, 30, 42, 50, 52, 53, 69, 71, 75 in Michael Trapp's Greek and Roman Letters); Cicero, ad. Fam. 16; Ovid Heroides 16-17.
Plato, Republic 473c11-535a1.
Designated authors: Lysias and Plato.
Designated authors: Cicero (speeches) Tacitus.
Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid.
Apollo and Dionysus in Greek Literature.
Horace, Epodes and Odes I-III.
Sophocles, Antigone 1-581; Catullus 1-3, 27-45, 62-3.
Plato, Phaedo.
Aristotle's moral and political thought.
Pleasure
Paper C1. A prescribed period or subject of Greek history
The Greeks and the supernatural: magic, oracles, and religion in archaic and classical Greece.
A history of Roman Britain.
Rome and the Greek East from Pyrrhus to Sulla.
Transformation of the Roman world.
Mediterranean landscapes (Italy, 800 BC-AD 500).
The classical body.
The archaeology of Roman urbanism.
Death.
Sexual ethics in Greco-Roman Antiquity.
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).