Honour School of Classics and Modern Languages
Differences from 2020/21 to 2022/23
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1. The subjects of the examination in the Honour School of Classics and Modern Languages shall be (a) the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and the thought and civilisation of the Ancient World and (b) those modern European languages and literatures studied in the Honour School of Modern Languages.
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2. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this School unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.
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3. The examiners shall indicate in the lists issued by them the language offered by each candidate obtaining honours or satisfying the examiners under the appropriate regulation.
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4. The examination in the Honour School shall be under the joint supervision of the Boards of the Faculties of Classics and of Modern Languages, which shall appoint a standing joint committee to make, and to submit to the two boards, proposals for regulations concerning the examination.
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5. (i) The Public Examiners for Classics in this school shall be such of the Public Examiners in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores as may be required, together with one or two additional examiners, if required, who shall be nominated by the committee for the nomination of Public Examiners in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores; those for Modern Languages shall be such of the Public Examiners in the Honour School of Modern Languages as shall be required.
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(ii) It shall be the duty of the chair of the Public Examiners in the Honour School of Modern Languages to designate such of their number as may be required for Modern Languages in the Honour School of Classics and Modern Languages, and when this has been done, and the examiners for Classics have been nominated, the number of the examiners in Classics and Modern Languages shall be deemed to be complete.
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Candidates will be examined in accordance with the examination regulations set out below.
They will also be required to spend, after their matriculation, a year of residence in an appropriate country or countries, and to provide on their entry form for the examination a certificate that they have done this, signed by the Head or by a tutor of their society. Candidates wishing to be dispensed from the requirement to undertake a year of residence abroad must apply in writing to the Chair of the Medieval and Modern Languages Board, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF, stating their reasons for requesting dispensation and enclosing a letter of support from their society.
Candidates should during this year abroad undertake a programme of activity acceptable to their college or society. They will also be expected to carry out during this period such academic work as their society may require. Candidates will agree with their College Tutor in advance of their year abroad an independent course of study to be followed during that period.
Except in a Special Subject or an alternative to a Special Subject, a candidate shall offer one modern language and its literature only except that candidates offering Ancient Greek may offer the subject Modern Greek Poetry, and all candidates may offer the subject Byzantine Literature as specified in the regulations below, if and only if they are not offering Medieval and Modern Greek as their modern language.
Any candidate may be examined viva voce.
Oral Examination: as specified for the Honour School of Modern Languages.
In every case where, under the regulations for the school, candidates have any choice between one or more papers or subjects, every candidate shall give notice to the Registrar not later than the Friday in the fourth week of Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination of all the papers and subjects being so offered.
Candidates offering two papers both of which involve the study of the same author or authors, may not make the same text or texts the principal subject of an answer in both the papers.
All candidates must offer eight subjects as specified below and may also offer an Additionaladditional Subjectninth as specified at nosubject.9.
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1. Honour School of Modern Languages, Paper I.
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2. Honour School of Modern Languages, Papers IIA and IIB.
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3. Honour School of Modern Languages, one paper chosen from Papers VI, VII, or VIII
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4. Honour School of Modern Languages, one paper chosen from Papers IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII.
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5,A6,text-based7.subjectThreeinsubjectsGreek and Latin literature chosen from(a)subjects 501-(h)13,below515, 517, 518 and 524-5 as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. - 6,7. Subject to the restrictions set out in Note 3 below, two of subjects 110-1, 115-6, 130-9, 401-15, 499, 501-13, 515, 517-8, 524-5, 551-4, 566-9, 598-9, 601-5 and 699 as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. Candidates may, if they wish, offer subject 581, The Latin Works of Petrarch, in place of one of these subjects. Except in the case of candidates who are offering Second Classical Language, at least one of papers 6 and 7 must be a text-based subject chosen from 501-13, 515, 517, 518, 524-5, 551-2 and 581. Candidates who are offering subject 517 or 518 under 5 above may not offer any of subjects 110, 111, 517, 518 and 581 under 6 and 7.
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(i) A subject chosen from papers IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII and XIV in the Honour School of Modern Languages.
(ii) One of subjects 110-1, 115-6, 130-9, 401-15, 499, 501-13, 515, 517-8, 524-5 and 551-4 as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject to the restrictions set out in Note 3 below.
(iii) 581: The Latin Works of Petrarch.
(iv) 582: Ancient and French Classical Tragedy. This subject may not be combined with any of the following: Honour School of Literae Humaniores subject 506, Greek Tragedy; Honour School of Modern Languages paper X(5), Racine; Honour School of Modern Languages paper XII, Dramatic Theory and Practice in France 1605-60 with special reference to Corneille.
(v) 583: The Creative Reception of Greek Tragedy in German This subject may not be combined Honour School of Literae Humaniores subject 506, Greek Tragedy.
- 9. Additional Subject.
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(i) A further subject chosen from Honour School of Modern Languages, papers IV, V, IX, X, XI, XII and XIV.
(ii) A further subject chosen 110-1, 115-6, 130-9, 401-15, 499, 501-13, 515, 517-8, 524-5 and 551-4 as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject to the restrictions set out in Note 3 below.
(iv) A Special Thesis on a topic in Classics or in a subject linking Classics and Modern Languages (to be examined under the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores).
- Subjects 401-14, 501-69 and 601-5
belowwill be set in accordance with the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. For each subject, a detailed specification and prescribed texts will be given in the Greats Handbook applicable to the relevant year of examination. The handbook will be published by Monday of Week 5 of the Hilary Term two years preceding the examination. -
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in110-1,Philosophy115-6underand(c)130-9 will be set in accordance with the regulations on Philosophy in all Honour Schools including Philosophy. - A detailed specification and prescribed texts for each of subjects 581, 582 and 583 will be given in the Classics & Modern Languages handbook applicable to the relevant year of examination.
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Note 1: It cannot be guaranteed that university lectures or classes or college teaching will be available on all subjects in every academic year. Candidates are advised to consult their tutors about the availability of teaching when selecting their subjects.
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Note 2: Any candidate whose native language is not English may bring a bilingual (native language to English) dictionary for use in any examination paper where candidates are required to translate Ancient Greek and/or Latin texts into English
, and any examination paper involving Greek or Latin prose composition. AllNote 3: The following restrictions shall apply to candidates’mustcombinations of Classical subjects:- (i) Candidates may offer no more than two subjects from 551-4.
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textof subjects 110-based1,subject in Greek115-6 andLatin literature from130-9. - (
aiii)501Candidates may offer only one of subjects 401-1315. - (iv) Candidates may offer only one of subjects 601-5.
- (v) Candidates may offer only one of subjects 503, 504 and 507.
- (vi) Candidates may offer only one of subjects 515 and 524.
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not offering Second Classical Language must alsomay offeraonlysecondonesubjectthesischosenunderfrom (a) 501-13499,515598,517, 524-5 and 581599 or(b)699.551However,andthey552. Inmay,theiflistthey wish, combine one ofsubjects below, numbers in parentheses after the title of a subject indicate otherthese subjects withwhichaitSpecial Thesis under 9 (iv).- (viii) Subjects 517, Byzantine Literature, and 518, Modern Greek Poetry, may not be
combined. (a)Greek and Latin LiteratureSubjects 501:Greek Coreand 502:Latin Corewill be examined in one three-hour paper (commentary and essay) and an additional one-and-a-half-hour paper (translation). See (h) below regarding the possibility of candidates offering these subjects as non-text-based (subjects 521 and 522) in combination withSecond Classical Language.Each of subjects 503:Historiography, 504:Lyric Poetryand 507:Comedywill be examinedoffered byan extended essay of up to 6,000 words and a one-and-a-half-hour translation paper. For each of these subjects, version (a) (as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores) is the only version available to candidates who have satisfied the Moderators in Course IA, IB, or IC of Honour Moderations in Classics or of the Preliminary Examination in Classics, or who offered both Ancient Greek and Latin in the Preliminary Examination for Modern Languages.All other subjects in Greek and Latin Literature will be examined in one three-hour paper.Note: University classes will be given for only one of subjects 515:Catullusand 524:Seneca, Medea, and for only one of subjects 512: Neronian Literature and 525: Latin Literature from Titus to Trajan each year.
501:Greek Core502:Latin Core503:Historiography(504, 507)504:Lyric Poetry(503, 507)505:Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
506:Greek Tragedy(582, 583)507:Comedy(503, 504)508:Hellenistic Poetry509:Cicero the Orator510:Ovid511:Latin Didactic512:Neronian Literature(525)513:Euripides, Orestes:papyri, manuscripts, text515:Catullus: manuscripts, text, interpretation(524)524:Seneca, Medea:manuscripts, text, interpretation(515)525:Latin Literature from Titus to Trajan(512)517:Byzantine Literature(518, 581). This subject is not available tocandidates offering Medieval and Modern Greek as their modern language.581:The Latin Works of Petrarch(517). A detailed specification and prescribed texts will be given in the Classics & Modern Languages handbook applicable to the relevant year of examination.
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bix)LinguisticsSubjectand PhilologyCandidates may offer no more than two of subjects 551-4. Each subject will be examined in one three-hour paper.551:Greek Historical Linguistics552:Latin Historical Linguistics553:General Linguistics and Comparative Philology. Candidates offering section (a)554,General Linguistics, may not also offer the Modern Languages Special Subject General Linguistics.554:Comparative Philology: Indo-European, Greek and Latin. This subject, may not be offered by candidates who offered paper VI F(1)
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cx)Ancient and Medieval PhilosophyCandidates may offer no more than one of these subjects. All subjects will be examined in one three-hour paper, as specified in the Regulations for Philosophy in all Honour Schools including Philosophy.110:Aquinas(111)111:Duns Scotus, Ockham(110)
115:Plato, Republic (in translation)(130)116:Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (in translation)(132)130:Plato, Republic (in Greek)(115)131:Plato on Knowledge, Language, & Reality in the Theaetetus and Sophist (in Greek)(137)132:Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (in Greek)(116)133:Aristotle on Nature, Life and Mind (in Greek)(138)134:Knowledge and Scepticism in Hellenistic Philosophy (in Greek)(136, 139)135:Latin Philosophy (in Latin)136:Knowledge and Scepticism in Hellenistic Philosophy (in Latin)(134, 139)137:Plato on Knowledge, Language, & Reality in the Theaetetus and Sophist (in translation)(131)138:Aristotle on Nature, Life and Mind (in translation)(133)139:Knowledge and Scepticism in Hellenistic Philosophy (in translation)(134, 136)
(d)Ancient HistoryCandidates may offer no more than one of these subjects. Each of subjects 401-6 will be examined in a three-hour essay paper and a one-and-a-half hour paper comprising passages for translation and comment from the prescribed texts, as specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. All other subjects in Ancient History will be examined in one three-hour paper.401:Archaic Greek History: c.750 to 479 BC402:Thucydides and the Greek World: 479 to 403 BC403:The End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Philip II of Macedon: 403 to 336 BC404:Polybius, Rome and the Mediterranean: 241-146 BC405:Republic in Crisis: 146-46 BC406:Rome, Italy and Empire from Caesar to Claudius: 46 BC to AD 54407:Athenian Democracy in the Classical Age408:Alexander the Great and his Early Successors (336 BC-302 BC)409:The Hellenistic World: Societies and Cultures c.300-100 BC410:Cicero: Politics and Thought in the Late Republic411:Politics, Society and Culture from Nero to Hadrian
412:Religions in the Greek and Roman World, c.31 BC-AD 312413:Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome414:The Conversion of Augustine415: The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC
(e)Classical ArchaeologyCandidates may offer no more than one of these subjects. All subjects will be examined in one three-hour paper.601:The Greeks and the Mediterranean World c.950-500 BC602:Greek Art and Archaeology c.500-300 BC603:Hellenistic Art and Archaeology, 330-30 BC604:Art under the Roman Empire, AD 14-337605:Roman Archaeology: Cities and Settlement under the Empire
(f)518:Modern Greek Poetry(517, 566/8, 567/9)This subject will be examined in one three-hour paper. It is not available to candidates who are offering Medieval and Modern Greek as their modern language.
(g)ThesisCandidates may offer one of the following, in accordance with the Regulation on Theses in the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores.499:Thesis in Ancient History598:Thesis in Philology and Linguistics599:Thesis in Greek and Latin Literature699:Thesis in Greek and Roman Archaeology
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Second Classical Language
will be examined in two three-hour papers andcounts as two subjects. Candidates who offer it must take either both subjects in Greek (566/568) or both subjects in Latin (567/569). It may not be offered by candidates who have satisfied the Moderators in Course IA, IB, or IC of Honour Moderations in Classics or of the Preliminary Examination in Classics, or who offered both Greek and Latin in the Preliminary Examinationforin Modern Languages. Candidates may not offer either subject in the same language as they offered in Course IIA or IIB of Honour Moderations or the Preliminary Examination in Classics or in the Preliminary Examinationforin Modern Languages. -
Candidates taking Second Classical Language must also offer at least one of
thesubjectsfrom110-1, 115-6, 130-9, 401-15, 499, 501-13, 515, 517-8, 524-5,6551-2,7554(a)–(e)orabove581 under 8 or 9(see below). Those offering it in Greek may if they wish offer Literae Humaniores subject 521 (Greek Core, non-text-based) at this point; those offering it in Latin may offer Literae Humaniores subject 522 (Latin Core, non-text-based).
8.One of the following:(i)A second subject chosen from those listed under 4 above.(ii) Honour School of Modern Languages, Paper XIV(iii)A fourth subject chosen from those listed under 5, 6, 7 above, subject to the groupings there set out and the restrictions there placed upon choice of subjects.(iv)582:Ancient and French Classical Tragedy(not to be offered in combination with any of the following: 506:Greek Tragedy; Racine[Honour School of Modern Languages, paper X(5)];Dramatic Theory and Practice in France 1605-60 with special reference to Corneille[Honour School of Modern Languages, paper XII Special Subject]). A detailed specification and prescribed texts will be given in the Classics & Modern Languages handbook applicable to the relevant year of examination.(v)583:The Creative Reception of Greek Tragedy in German(not to be offered in combination with 506:Greek Tragedy).A detailed specification and prescribed texts will be given in the Classics & Modern Languages handbook applicable to the relevant year of examination.
9.Additional Subject.Candidates wishing to offer an Additional Subject may offer one of the following.(i)A further subject chosen from the list prescribed under 4 above.(ii) Honour School of Modern Languages, Paper XIV, if not already offered under 8.(iii)A further subject chosen from the list prescribed under 5, 6, 7 (a)-(f) above, subject to the groupings there set out and the restrictions there placed upon choice of subjects.(iv)584: Greek Prose Composition. This subject may not be offered by candidates who have satisfied the Moderators in Course IA or IC of Honour Moderations in Classics.(v)585: Latin Prose Composition. This subject may not be offered by candidates who have satisfied the Moderators in Course IA or IB of Honour Moderations in Classics.(vi)A Special Thesis on a topic in Classics or in a subject linking Classics and Modern Languages (to be examined under the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores).Candidates shall upload their thesis not later than noon on Friday of the week before the Trinity Full Term to the University approved online assessment platform.