History (Ancient and Modern)

Four courses are taken:

• One period of either Greek or Roman history
• One of the periods of General (non-British) history offered by the History Faculty
• The world of Homer and Hesiod; or Augustan Rome; or one of the History optional subjects
• A text-based paper on Herodotus; or Sallust; or Approaches to history; or Historiography: Tacitus to Weber, from the History syllabus or Greek/Latin language paper

First University examinations:
Four written papers

Six courses are taken:

• A period of Greek or Roman history
  
• A period of general history or one of the periods of the history of the British Isles
  Further subjects including work on primary sources, textual or archaeological
  
• A choice of further subjects (either the further or the special subject must be ancient (they can both be ancient, if you wish)) from the History syllabus; or an ancient further subject, including: Athenian democracy in the classical age; Politics, society and culture from Nero to Hadrian; Religions in the Greek and Roman world c.31 BC–AD 312; The Greeks and the Mediterranean world 950–500 BC; Art under the Roman Empire AD 14–337; The Hellenistic World: societies and cultures, ca. 300 BC-100 BC
  
• Special subjects (either the further or the special subject must be ancient (they can both be ancient, if you wish)) (including work on primary sources, textual or archaeological). A choice of special subjects from the History syllabus; or an ancient special subject, including: Alexander the Great and his early successors; Cicero: politics and thought in the late Republic
  
• Disciplines of history
  
• Thesis
• Optional Greek/Latin language paper

Final University examinations:
Six written papers (or five written papers and one extended essay); one thesis