Classics and Ancient History MA

You'll study specific modules on topics such as:

• ancient concepts of divinity as articulated by Cicero and others
• ancient philosophy
• Ciceronian rhetoric, its theory and practice
• ancient historiography
• the reception and recreation of ancient texts
• ancient science and medicine
• performance culture in ancient Greece and Rome
• the art and archaeology of Rome and Byzantium
• Greek art and archaeology

You'll study specific modules on topics such as:

• ancient historiography
• the history of the Roman Republic
• the emperor Julian and the history of the Late Roman empire
• Greek and Roman religion
• the life and reception of Alexander the Great
• contact and interactions between Greeks and ‘Barbarians’
• the origins and nature of early ethnographic thought
• the art and archaeology of Rome and Byzantium
• Greek art and archaeology
• City of Athens

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