古典学文学硕士

课程模块Modules

• Core modules
• Optional modules

Classics modules

• Narratives of Fear in the Early Roman Republic
• Arsinoe II and the Hellenistic Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Egypt
• A Study on the Theme of Revenge in Ovid's Metamorphoses
• The Representation of Sparta in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
• Crossing the Boundaries: Reflections of Gender Anxieties in Roman Domestic Art
• Horns and Hunting: An Analysis of Iconographic Motifs from the Bronze Age Aegean
• different approaches to analysing myth and religion
• how the Greeks and Romans understood their myths and religion
• the role of religion and the gods in ancient societies
• a range of modern theories and scholarship on ancient religion
• plot in ancient novels
• narratology
• 修辞学rhetoric
• historiography
• 叙事艺术narrative art
• ekphrasis
• silence
• literary self-positioning
• dealing with fragmentary sources

Faculty-wide modules

• introduce the ideas, practices, complexities, and opportunities of interdisciplinary research in the arts
• train you in core research skills necessary for graduate-level study
• develop your confidence in communicating research findings to non-specialist audiences
• 学术出版academic publishing
• knowledge exchange
• 学位论文规划与写作dissertation planning and writing
• 专业传播professional communication

Language modules

• Continue to study the structure of your chosen language, including all the major grammatical features
• Flavian personal poetry (Martial and Statius)
• The emperor Claudius (Suetonius and Tacitus)
• The Cupid and Psyche story from Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses
• Ethnicity and Empire in Latin Epic (Virgil and Silius Italicus)
• The Power of Love (Ovid and Propertius)
• Tragedy (Sophocles’ Antigone )
• Selections from Homer’s Iliad
• Longus’ novel Daphnis and Chloe
• Plutarch’s Life of Antony
• Paradoxography (a portfolio of texts exploring the weird and marvellous)