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Bachelor of Arts (International Honours) Classical Studies


BA (International Honours) Classical Studies: First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( * View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 OR
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: GK1001 - GK1002 OR
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: GK1005 - GK1006 ) OR
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list 40 credits from Module List: AN1001 - AN1004 ) AND
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and communities in the ancient Mediterranean 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
PO1001 Studying at St Andrews and William & Mary (WaMStA studies) 5 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

Students on the Ancient History and Archaeology pathway must take two modules out of AN1001, AN1002, AN1003 and AN1004, but it is strongly recommended that they also take 40 credits of Latin or Greek: (LT1001 and LT1002) or (LT1003 and LT1004) OR (GK1001 and GK1002) or (GK1003 and GK1004).
BA (International Honours) Classical Studies: Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( ^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 OR
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: GK2001 - GK2002 OR
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: GK2003 - GK2004 ) OR
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: AN2004 - AN2005, CL2003 - CL2004, ID2006 ) AND
AN2004 Ancient Societies: Gender, ethnicity, and inequality in the ancient world 20
AN2005 Narratives of antiquity 20
CL2003 Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
CL2004 Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 20
ID2006 Introduction to Archaeology 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
PO2001 Introduction to St Andrews 5 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

It is strongly recommended that students on the Ancient History and Archaeology pathway take 40 credits of Latin or Greek in their second year. If the student has taken first-year Latin or Greek, these may be chosen from LT2001, LT2003, LT2003 and LT2004 (for Latin) or GK2001, GK2002, GK2003 and GK2004 (for Greek). If the student has not taken first-year Latin or Greek, they may be chosen from LT1001, LT1002, LT1003 and LT1004 (for Latin) or GK1001, GK1002, GK1005 and GK1006 (for Greek).

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

BA (International Honours) Classical Studies: Third Year
Code Module name Credits
(( View list 60 credits from Module List: LT3019, LT4000 - LT4989 OR
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, ancient and early modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989 ) AND
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a hetaira? The (re-)creation of female voices in the Second Sophistic 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: (GK3021+GK3022), (LT3017+LT3018), AA4000-AA4989, AN4000-AN4989, CL4000-CL4989, GK4000-GK4989, LT4000-LT498 ) OR
GK3021 Greek for Honours Classics 1 30
GK3022 Greek for Honours Classics 2 30
LT3017 Latin for Honours Classics 1 30
LT3018 Latin for Honours Classics 2 30
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a hetaira? The (re-)creation of female voices in the Second Sophistic 30
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, ancient and early modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
(( AA3020 Principles and Techniques in Archaeology 30 OR
AN3034 Approaches to Ancient History 30 ) AND
View list 90 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797) )
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Students following the Ancient History and Archaeology pathway may, with the permission of the Heads of School concerned, replace 30 credits from the range AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989 with appropriate modules in Medieval History.

Students following the Greek and Latin pathway may take GK3021, GK3022, LT3017 and LT3018 only in their second language, not their main language, and only if they have taken their second language for not more than one year at beginners’ level only (i.e. GK1001 and GK1002 or LT1001 and LT1002 or equivalent modules at the College of William and Mary.
BA (International Honours) Classical Studies: Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
( GK4999 Dissertation in Greek 30 OR
LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30 ) AND
(( View list 30 credits from Module List: LT3019, LT4000 - LT4989 OR
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, ancient and early modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 30 credits from Module List: GK4000 - GK4989 ) AND
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a hetaira? The (re-)creation of female voices in the Second Sophistic 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 60 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 ) OR
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4119 Texts and Objects in the Greek World 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4125 The Gods of Greek Literature 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a hetaira? The (re-)creation of female voices in the Second Sophistic 30
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4221 Tools of the Classicist 30
LT4222 Floating Words: Anonymous Writing in Ancient Rome 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4225 Roman Literary Criticism 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, ancient and early modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( CL4999 Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30 AND
View list 90 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (excluding CL4794 - CL4797) )
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
AN4430 Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
CL4406 Herodotus 30
CL4413 Logos, Nature, and Psyche: The Origins of Western Thought 30
CL4419 Magic in Greco-Roman Literature and Life 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's lliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4438 Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity 30
CL4445 Women in Ancient Societies 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4455 Roman Praise 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4462 Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4464 The Religious Sense in the Classical Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: interventions and applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and environment in ancient Greek and Roman literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4604 Greek Sculpture 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students following the Ancient History and Archaeology pathway may, with the permission of the Heads of School concerned, replace 30 credits from the range AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989 with appropriate modules in Medieval History.

Students following the Greek and Latin pathway may take GK3021, GK3022, LT3017 and LT3018 only in their second language, not their main language, and only if they have taken their second language for not more than one year at beginners’ level only (i.e. GK1001 and GK1002 or LT1001 and LT1002 or equivalent modules at the College of William and Mary.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).