Classical and Modern Greek Studies

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits.

There are no required modules for this course in Year 1.

You will select modules totalling 90 credits from a wide range of options that may typically include:

• Ancient Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Ancient Greek Language 2 (30 credits)
• Ancient Greek Language 3 (30 credits)
• Introduction to Byzantium & Modern Greece: The Greek-speaking world from 330 AD totoday (30 credits)
• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome (30 credits)
• Greek Literature: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Reading Modern Poetry Comparatively: Greek & English (30 credits)
• Receptions of the Past: The Hellenic World from Antiquity to Today (30 credits)

You may choose to take 15 credits from another Department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of War Studies with approval from the Head of Department. You may take a further 15 credits in Modern Greek Language from the Modern Language Centre.

Year 2

In your second year, you are required to take at least 90 credits of Classics modules. With approval from the Head of Department, they may choose to take 15 credits from another Department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of War Studies. Students may take a further 15 credits in Modern Greek Language from the Modern Language Centre.

You are required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120.

There are no required modules for this course in year two.

You have a broad range of Classics modules to choose from, which may typically include 15-credit modules such as:

• Greek Language 3A (30 credits)
• Greek Drama (30 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Verse (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Poetry (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Drama (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Homer (15 credits)
• Sex & the Symposium: The evidence of Athenian painted pottery (15 credits)
• Death in Greek Literature (15 credits)
• Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (15 credits)
• Democracy, Empire & War: Greece 446-338 BC (15 credits)
• The Byzantine Empire, 600-1453 (15 credits)
• Myth & Literature: Ancient Stories, Modern Meanings (15 credits)
• Female Voices in Greek & Latin Literature (15 credits)

You will also have the opportunity to study abroad for your second year. Partner universities currently include:

• University of Auckland
• University of Melbourne
• University of Toronto (Full year only)
• University of California
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Up to five places exclusively available for Classics students)
• University of Sydney

Year 3

In your final year, you are required to take at least 90 credits of Classics modules. With approval from the Head of Department, they may choose to take 15 credits from another Department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Department of War Studies. Students may take a further 15 credits in Modern Greek Language from the Modern Language Centre.

• There are no required modules for this course in year 3.

You have a wide range of Classics modules to choose from, which may typically include 30-credit modules such as:

• Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature (30 credits)
• Plato’s myths: the soul, desire & the beyond (30 credits)
• Living forever: fame & glory from Homeric heroes to Roman emperors (and beyond) (30 credits)
• Minoans & Mycenaeans (30 credits)
• The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture & its Legacy (30 credits)
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda (30 credits)
• Pagans, Christians & Jews in the Roman Empire (30 credits)
• An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters (30 credits)
• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Introductory Greek Texts: Verse (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Poetry (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Drama (15 credits)
• Greek Texts: Prose (15 credits)
• Descent to the Underworld: transformations of a myth (15 credits)
• Venice: History & Art (15 credits)
• Romanticism & Revolution: Byron, the Shelley’s & Greece (15 credits)
• Origins of Nations & Nationalism: Identity in the Hellenistic World (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis in order to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. The optional modules offered may therefore change. We suggest that you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates