Late Antique & Byzantine Studies

Year 1 Required Modules

You are required to take:

• Research Training and Dissertation in LABS (60 credits)

You are also required to take at least 40 credits from the following list:

• Latin Epigraphy (40 Credits)
• Beginners’ Ancient Greek for Research (40 Credits)
• Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (40 Credits)
• Medieval Latin Literature (40 Credits)
• Skills for Medievalists: Paleography I (20 Credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take the Research Training and Dissertation in LABS module in your second year, along with 40 credits from the list of optional modules. You will take the rest of the required modules in your first year.

You are required to take two to four modules from a range of optoinal modules which may typically include:

• One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600-800 (20 Credits)
• Byzantium & the West, A. D. 800-1000 (20 Credits)
• Living in Byzantium I: Material Culture and Built Environment in Late Antiquity (20 Credits
• Living in Byzantium II: Material culture and built environment in the Middle Ages (20 Credits)

Choose up to 40 credits from a range of modules which typically includes:

• Homer (40 Credits)
• The Reception of Roman Comedy (20 Credits)
• Homeric Presences in Greek Poetry and Shorter Prose since 1890 (20 Credits)
• Modern Greek Poetry and the Epic Tradition (20 Credits)
• Tacitus & Nero (40 Credits)
• Early Modern Latin Poetry I (20 Credits)
• Roman Britain (40 Credits)
• C.P. Cavafy: the Making of a Modernist (20 Credits)
• Persepolis (20 Credits)
• Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (20 Credits)
• The City of Rome (British School at Rome Annual Postgraduate Course) (40 Credits)
• The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture and its Legacy (40 Credits)
• The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (40 Credits)
• Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (20 Credits)
• Up to 20 Credits from a range of modules offered by our Modern Language Centre
• Modules offered by:
  • UCL Department of Greek & Latin
  • UCL Department of History
  • UCL Institute of Archaeology
  • RHUL Department of Classics
  • RHUL Department of History

All subject to approval.

We review the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change.

If you are a part-time student, you will take the Research Training & Dissertation in LABS, along with 40 credits from the list of optional modules in your second year. You will take the rest of the required modules in your first year.