Classical Studies

Year 1

There are no required modules at any stage of this course. Instead you will select from a range of optional modules to achieve a total of 120 credits for each year of the course. 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 course will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

• There are no required modules in Year 1.

You will choose modules totalling 120 credits, which may typically include:

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BCAD 600) (30 credits)
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction (30 credits)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy (30 credits)
• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)
• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)
• Introduction to Byzantium and 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 programme convenor, you can also choose from any of the 15-credit Level 4 modules offered by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Global Institutes.

View a complete list of modules and descriptions.

Year 2

Second year students choose modules totalling 120 credits.

• There are no required modules in Year 2.

• Homer (15 credits)

• Early Greece from Troy to Marathon (15 credits)

• The World from Babylon: 911-ca.550 BC (15 credits)

• Sex and the symposium: The evidence of Athenian painted pottery (15 credits)

• Democracy, Empire and War: Greece 446-338 BC (15 credits)

• Virgil’s Aeneid (15 credits)

• Latin Love Elegy (15 credits)

• Pompeii: History and Society (15 credits)

• Ancient Sexuality I (15 credits)

• Mapping Society and the Past: Historians and Sophists (15 credits)

• Roman Art 1: Art, Power and Authority (15 credits)

• Who Needs Myth? (15 credits)

• Myth and literature: ancient stories, modern meanings (15 credits)

• Female Voices in Greek and Latin Literature (15 credits)

• Greek Language 1 (30 credits)

• Latin Language 1 (30 credits)

• Greek Language 3A (30 credits)

• Latin Language 3A (30 credits)

• Greek Drama (30 credits)

• Roman Britain (30 credits)

View a complete list of modules and descriptions.

You can choose to study modules totalling 30 credits from another Department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Global Institutes, with the approval of the Department.

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

• There are no required modules in Year 3.

• Dissertation (30 credits)
• Streetwise: narrating the city in classical literature (30 credits)
• Neronian Literature and Culture (30 credits)
• Plato's myths: the soul, desire and the beyond (30 credits)
• Living for ever: fame and glory from Homeric heroes to Roman emperors (and beyond) (30 credits)
• Minoans and 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 and its Legacy (30 credits)
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda (30 credits)
• Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire (30 credits)
• The Rise of Rome, c.650-70 BC (30 credits)
• An Introduction to Classical Reception Studies in Sixteen Encounters (30 credits)
• Descent to the Underworld: transformations of a myth (15 credits)
• Venice: History & Art (15 credits)
• Romanticism & Revolution: Byron, the Shelleys and Greece (15 credits)
• Persian Kings and their Territory in the Achaemenid Empire (15 credits)
• Origins of Nations and Nationalism: Identity in the Hellenic world (15 credits)

You can also choose to study modules totalling 30 credits from another Department in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Global Institutes, with the approval of the Department.

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.