Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.
Classical Tripos, 2012: Correction to amendment to prescribed
subjects and books
One of the details in the amendment to prescribed subjects and books
published on 27 July 2011 (p. 1114) was incorrect.
Part Ib
Paper 6. Latin literature
The topic published replaces Topic 1 Roman humour and not
Topic 3 The Neronian period.
Classical Tripos, 2013: Prescribed subjects and books
The Faculty Board of Classics give notice that the following subjects and
books have been prescribed for the Classical Tripos, 2013.
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
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Paper A4. Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of
texts
Sophocles, Electra 1–515; Catullus 1–15,
61–2.
GROUP B (PHILOSOPHY)
Paper B1. Plato
Plato, Phaedo.
Paper B2. Aristotle
Aristotle’s moral and political thought.
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
The transformation of the Roman world, ad
284–476.
GROUP D (ARCHAEOLOGY)
Paper D1. Aegean prehistory
Paper D2. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art
The art of collecting.
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. Alexander’s Legacy: Greek as a world language
Paper E3. Latin and its neighbours
GROUP X
Paper X1. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to
time
Gods and idols.
Paper X2. A subject specified by the Faculty Board from time to
time
Prostitutes and saints.
GROUP O
Paper O1. The history of ideas on language (Paper 12 of Part II of the Linguistics
Tripos)
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 epistemology (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 I (Paper A2 in Archaeology of Part IIa of the Archaeological and Anthropological
Tripos)
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