Classical Tripos, 2008: Prescribed subjects and books

The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, 2008 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 258):

Part IA

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.

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. Mythical narratives - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2007 AND 2008
• 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.

Paper 6. Latin literature

• 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
• 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 Books 10; Macrobius, Saturnalia 2.5.1-10.

• Topic 3. The Neronian period. Spectacles of power and the inner self - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2008
• 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.

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

• Apollo and Dionysus in Greek Literature.

Paper A3. Prescribed Latin texts

• Horace, Epodes and Odes I-III.

Paper A4. Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts

• Sophocles, Antigone 1-581; Catullus 1-3, 27-45, 62-3.

GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)

Paper B1. Plato

• Plato, Phaedo.

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

• A history of Roman Britain.

Paper C3. A prescribed subject taken from ancient history

• Rome and the Greek East from Pyrrhus to Sulla.

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

• Mediterranean landscapes.

Paper D3. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art

• The classical body.

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. και συ, τεκνον. 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).