Classical Archaeology

Year 1

King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional module will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

You have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of the second year or for the whole of the 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

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

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome (30 credits)

You will choose 90 credits from a wide range of optional, which may typically include:

• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC - AD 600) (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (30 credits)
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Introduction to Byzantium & Modern Greece: The Greek-speaking world from 330 AD to today (15 credits)
• Receptions of the past: The Hellenic world from antiquity to today (15 credits)

With the approval of the course convenor, you may also choose to substitute one 15-credit modules for an appropriate 15-credit Level 4 (year 1) modules offered by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Global Institutes.

Year 2 Required Modules

There are no required modules in your second year.

You are required to take 60 credits of Art & Archaeology modules, plus a further 60 credits, of which 30 may come from another department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or the Department of War Studies.
You are required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Greek Language 3A (30 credits)
• Latin Language 3A (30 credits)
• Roman Britain (30 credits)
• Sex & the symposium: The evidence of Athenian painted pottery (15 credits)
• Roman Art 1: Art, Power & Authority (15 credits)
• Roman Art 2: Art in the Private Sphere (15 credits)
• Romans & barbarians: cities in the Roman Mediterranean (15 credits)
• Art & Power in the Age of Alexander (Hellenistic Art I) (15 credits)
• The Art of Acquisition: Conquest, Collection & the Rise of Rome (Hellenistic Art II) (15 credits)
• Grand Tour: Antiquities in London from the Enlightenment to the Present Day (15 credits)
• Bread & Circuses: Roman Entertainment & Spectacle (15 credits)
• Building Greece (15 credits)
• Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (15 credits)
• The World from Babylon: 911-ca.550 BC (15 credits)
• Democracy, Empire & War: Greece 446-338 BC (15 credits)
• Ancient Sexuality I (15 credits)
• Mapping Society & the Past: Historians & Sophists (15 credits)

You also have the opportunity to study abroad in the second semester of the second year or for the whole of the 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 Required Modules

There are no required modules in your third year.

You are required to take 60 credits of Art & Archaeology modules, plus a further 60 credits, of which 30 may come from another department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or the Department of War Studies.
You are required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional modules which may typically include:

• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Minoans & Mycenaeans (30 credits)
• Archaeology of the Western Roman Provinces (30 credits)
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire (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)
• The Rise of Rome, c.650-70 BC (30 credits)
• Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature (30 credits)
• Neronian Literature & Culture (30 credits)
• An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters (30 credits)
• Persian Kings & their Territory in the Achaemenid Empire (15 credits)
• Venice: History & Art (15 credits)
• Medieval Cyprus: Art & Architecture (15 credits)
• Origins of Nations & Nationalism: Identity in the Hellenic world (15 credits)
• Descent to the Underworld: transformations of a myth (15 credits)
• Romanticism & Revolution: Byron, the Shelley’s & Greece (15 credits)

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