Further to their Notice of 18 June 2008 (Reporter, 2007-08, p. 878), 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 1. Lysias 1; Thucydides 1.1-12, 20-23; Homer, Odyssey 19 and 20; Herodotus 1.1-70; Plato, Crito; Euripides, Troades.
Paper 2. Lysias 1; Homer, Odyssey 19 line 100 to end; Plato, Crito; Euripides, Troades.
Paper 3. Virgil, Aeneid 1; Cicero, In Catilinam 1 and 2; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21; Lucretius 3.
Paper 4. Virgil, Aeneid 1; Cicero, In Catilinam 1; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21.
Paper 5. There are no designated books for this Paper.
Part IB
Topic 2. Past and present in Trajanic Rome
Schedule A: (1) Tacitus Histories 1; (2) Pliny Epistles 2; (3) Juvenal Satires 1-5.
Schedule B: Tacitus Agricola; Pliny Panegyric, and Epistles 1.5, 1.6, 8.14, 9.13, 9.14; Martial Epigrams 10.1-10, 10.34, 10.72, 11.1-7; Suetonius Domitian; Dio Cassius Roman History 68 (this last to be read in English only).
Part II
Paper C1. A prescribed period or subjects of Greek history
Ancient Greek democracy - and its legacies.
Paper X2. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time
Prostitutes and saints.
Paper O2. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture (Paper Gr. 3 of Part IB of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
Paper O7. A special subject in Neo-Latin literature: Marullus, Poliziano, Bèze, and Buchanan (Paper NL 2 of Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos).
The Faculty Board are satisfied that no candidate's preparation for the examination in 2010 has been adversely affected by these changes.