No 6234
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Vol cxli No 38
pp. 1109–1140
Further to their Notice of 7 July 2010 (Reporter, 2009–10, pp. 1044–46) the Faculty Board of Classics give notice of the following changes and additions to the prescribed subjects and books for the Classical Tripos, 2012.
Papers 3 and 4. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1 in place of Virgil, Eclogues
Topic 1. The Iliad and responses to it
Schedule B: Plato, Ion in place of Plato, Laches
Topic 3. Mythical narratives
Schedule A: (1) Hesiod, Theogony; (2) Ps-Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound; (3) Plato, Protagoras 320c–323a; Gorgias 523a–527a; Symposium 189d–193e; Phaedo 107c–115a; Republic 414c–415a; 614a–621d; Phaedrus 246a–249d; 274c–275e.
Schedule B: Hesiod, Works and Days; Homeric Hymn to Apollo; Homeric Hymn to Hermes; Pindar, Olympian 1 and 6; Nemean 6; Aristophanes, Birds.
The following topic replaces The Neronian period:
Topic 3. Youth at Rome: Coming of age in poetry and prose
Schedule A: (1) Catullus 61–68 (2) Statius, Achilleid (3) Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche.
Schedule B: Virgil, Aeneid 5.545–699 and 9.176–502; Horace, Odes 1.5, 1.13, 2.5, 3.2, 4.4; Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.55–166, 4.274–388, 9.666–797; Statius, Thebaid 9.570–907; Augustine, Confessions 2.
Horace, Odes I–IV and Carmen Saeculare.
The art of collecting
The Faculty Board have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2012 will be adversely affected by these changes.
The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2013 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 329) will be as follows.
Themes and sources:
iMoney and society from late antiquity to the financial revolution
iiRoyal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern
iiiReligious conversion and colonialism
ivRemaking the modern body, 1543–1939
vHistory of the emotions
viAmerican perspectives on east and southeast Asia
ixThe history of collecting
xMigrants: emigration and immigration, c. 1000–c. 2000
xiThe politics of memory in the two German states after 1945 (German sources)
xiiWorld War II and its legacy in France (French sources)
xiiiUtopian writing 1516–1789
The Faculty Board of History give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 2i and 2ii of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2013 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 333) will be as follows.
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The city of Rome and its rulers, 476–769 |
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Chivalry, patronage, and rulership: King René of Anjou in fifteenth-century Europe |
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Uses of the visual in early modern Germany, c. 1450–1550 |
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Locke’s politics, 1660–1710 |
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The Irish rebellion of 1641: origins, course, consequences |
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An alternative history of Ireland: Religious minorities and identity in the 26 counties, 1912–1959 |
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Class, party, and the politics of social identity in England, 1914–1945 |
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The British and the Middle East, c. 1830–1860 |
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Fin de siècle Russia, 1891–1917 |
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Margaret Mead and the public face of social science, c. 1928–c. 1978 |
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The political economy of globalization, 1939–1974 |
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Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement |
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The subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2013 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 333) will be:
1Historical argument and practice
3History of political thought to c. 1700
4History of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890
5Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c. 1890
6Ancient Greek democracy and its legacies (Paper C1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
7Transformation of the Roman world (Paper C4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos)
8The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700
9The Jewish presence in medieval society
11The archaeology of medieval Britain, c. 1000–1500 (Paper A28 of Part IIa of the Anthropological and Archaeological Tripos)
12The middle ages on film: medieval violence and modern identities
14Material culture in the early modern world
15Food and drink in Britain and the wider world, c. 1500–1800
17The politics of knowledge from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment
19Culture and identity in Britain’s long eighteenth century
21The French and the British problem, since c. 1688
24The politics of gender in Britain, 1790–1990 (TBC)
25The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800–2000
27The history of Latin America in the colonial period, c. 1500–1830
28The history of the Indian sub-continent from the late eighteenth century to the present day
29The history of Africa from 1800 to the present day
30‘Islands and beaches’: the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the long nineteenth century
Candidates for Part II in 2013, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects B, C, D, E, and F or by offering Paper 3 or one of the Papers 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 17 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2013, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period after 1750, may meet the requirement to take a post-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects G, I, J, K, N, O, and Q or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 19, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29, and 30 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.
Candidates for Part II in 2013, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 7, 8, 9, 14, 21, and 25.