18 September 2024

Updated Course Overview section

Old:

Teaching is varied, innovative and interactive, and our students benefit from many hands-on learning experiences, including recreating the experience of a Greek symposium, visiting historical sites and museums in the UK, and taking part in our annual classical play.

New:

Teaching is varied, innovative and interactive, and our students benefit from many hands-on learning experiences, including recreating the experience of a Greek symposium, visiting historical sites and museums in the UK, and as extra-curricular learning activity taking part in our annual classical play.

We have also made changes to the optional modules for this course on the ‘Modules’ tab:

Previous content:

• Ancient Greek Theatre
• Greek Myth: Narratives, Sources, Approaches
• The Vulnerable Body in Roman Literature and Thought
• Africa and the Making of Classical Literature
• Roman Laughter
• Metamorphosis in Latin Poetry
• Rhetorics: from Classical Rhetoric to Modern Communication
• Sexuality and Gender in Antiquity
• The Transformation of Roman Society under Augustus
• Politics and Poetics in Greek and Latin Literature
• The History of Medicine in the Ancient World
• Songs, Texts, Theories: Greek Lyric Poetry
• Horace, Authority and Authoritarianism

Revised content:

• Ancient Greek Theatre
• Greek Myth: Narratives, Sources, Approaches
• The Vulnerable Body in Roman Literature and Thought
• Roman Laughter: Wit and Transgression in Roman Literature and Thought
• Rhetorics: from Classical Rhetoric to Modern Communication
• Sexuality and Gender in Antiquity
• The Transformation of Roman Society under Augustus
• The Politics of Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
• The History of Medicine in the Ancient World
• Songs, Texts, Theories: Greek Lyric Poetry
• Horace, Authority and Authoritarianism
• Public Engagement in Classics
• The Coinage of Greece and Rome
• Retelling Myths in Greek and Roman Art