The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, 2011 (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, Pro Lege Manilia; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21; Lucretius 3.
Paper 4. Virgil, Aeneid 1; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Virgil, Eclogues; Livy, 21.
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. 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, Promehteus es in verbis.
Topic 4. - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2011
Paper 6. Latin literature
Topic 1. - NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2011
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).
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. Youth at Rome: myths and contexts
Schedule A: (1) Virgil, Aeneid 7 (2) Statius, Achilleid 1 & 2 (3) Apuleius, Cupid & Psyche.
Schedule B: Catullus 61-68; Horace, Odes 1.37, 3.2, 4.4, 4.14; Horace, Satires 1.6; Ovid, Heroides 6, 16, 17; Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.55-166, 4.274-388, 9.666-797, 12.146-535; Ps.-Quintilian, Declamations 258, 315, 317; Seneca, Controversiae 4.pr., 4.1, 4.5, 4.6; Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds & Sayings 3.1, 3.4, 3.5; Virgil, Aeneid 5.545-699.
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
Sophocles and myth.
Paper A3. Prescribed Latin texts
Horace, Epodes and Odes I-III.
Paper A4. Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts
Sophocles, Electra 1-15; Catullus 1-3, 4-15, 62-3.
GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)
Paper B1. Plato
Plato, Theaetetus.
Paper B2. Aristotle
Aristotle on nature and change (Physics books II-IV).
Paper B3. A prescribed subject or period in Greek and Roman philosophy
God and Anti-god.
GROUP C (HISTORY)
Paper C1. A prescribed period or subjects of Greek history
Ancient Greek democracy - and its legacies.
Paper C2. A prescribed period or subject of Roman history
Knowledge, wealth, and power in the Roman Empire.
Paper C3. A prescribed subject taken from ancient history
Athens after Alexander.
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
Roman Britain.
Paper D3. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art
The poetics of classical art.
Paper D4. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art
Roman cities.
GROUP E (LANGUAGE)
Paper E1. Elements of comparative linguistics
Paper E2. Greek from Mycenae to Homer
Paper E3. Latin and the Greek language
GROUP X
Paper X1. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time
Idols.
Paper X2. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to time
Prostitutes and Saints.
GROUP O
Paper O1. NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION IN 2011
Paper O2. Introduction to modern Greek language and culture (Paper Gr. 3 of Part IB 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. 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).
Paper O8. Judaism and Hellenism (Paper D2(d) of the 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. Archaeology in action (Paper A2 in Archaeology of Part IIA of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos).