Autumn Term 2024

Week 1

Introduction to the module. Introduction to the decolonisation of Classics curricula, the Black Athena Debate, race and ethnicity in the ancient world. Geographies of Africa.

Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus 1-128

Week 2

Looking for the Ethiopians (mostly selections of Homer and Herodotus).
Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus 949-1067

Week 3 

Hellenized Egyptian Tales (selections of Herodotus Histories 2, Odyssey 4, Euripides Helen).

Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus

Week 4

The ‘other’ in Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women

Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus

Week 5

Libya and the birth of Latin literature; Plautus’ Poenulus, Carthage in Virgil, Livy

Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus

Week 6 - Reading Week

Week 7

Rome's African Geographies (Sallust, Mela, Pliny, Seneca, Lucan)

Latin Study: Plautus Poenulus

Week 8

Numidia and Rome's African Wars (Sallust, Lucan)

Latin Study: Virgil Aeneid 1.335-593

Week 9

The Location of the Marvellous

Latin Study: Virgil Aeneid 1.594-688

Week 10

End of Term Recap

Latin Study: Virgil Aeneid 1.689-756

Spring Term 2021

Week 1

Introduction to Term 2: Postcolonial Theory, Black Classicism.

Latin Study: Sallust Bellum Jugurthinum 1-10

Week 2 - 18th January

Seeing Double: Hellenistic Literature (Callimachus and Theocritus)

Latin Study: Sallust Bellum Jugurthinum 11-19

Week 3 - 25th January

Apollonius Argonautica (selections of books 3 and 4) and the foundation of Cyrene (Herodotus and Pindar)

Latin Study: Sallust Bellum Jugurthinum 78-79

Week 4 - 1st February

Apuleius and Africa (Apuleius Metamorphoses selections, esp. 1 and 11; Apologia)

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Civile 4.661-798

Week 5 - 8th February

The African Fathers of the Church (Augustine and Tertullian)

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Ciuile 9

Week 6 - Reading Week

Week 7 - 22nd February

Introduction to Black Classicism; W. E. B. Du Bois; Phillis Wheatley

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Ciuile 9

Week 8 - 1st March

Derek Walcott's Omeros

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Ciuile 9

Week 9 - 8th March

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (selection) and Toni Morrison's Beloved

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Ciuile 9

Week 10 - 15th March

Classics in Africa; Wole Soyinka's Bacchae

Latin Study: Lucan Bellum Ciuile 9

Summer Term 2021

Week 1

Revision Session and exam practice

Week 2

Revision Session and exam practice

Week 3

Revision Session and exam practice