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No 6235

Wednesday 3 August 2011

Vol cxli No 39

pp. 1141–1156

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)

Cambridge Finance Best Student Paper Award 2011–12: Notice

Any University of Cambridge graduate student studying finance is eligible to enter. The author of the best student paper in finance receives a prize of £1,000. Full details are available from the Cambridge Finance administrator, Sheryl Anderson (email sa609@cam.ac.uk), or on the Cambridge Finance website (http://www.finance.group.cam.ac.uk).