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University of Malta

Faculty of Arts Department of Classics and

Archaeology

Course Catalogue

Academic Year 2008/2011

Classics B.A., B.A. (Hons), Subsidiary

Classics Course Catalogue

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This Programme is so arranged that the contents of Year One alternate with those of Year Two in such a way that the student reading B.A. Honours or B.A. General learns Greek and Latin in two years. During these two years, B.A. Honours students are given the opportunity to learn about the development of Greek and Latin Literature, Greek and Roman Civilization, as well as Classical Rhetoric and Prosody; furthermore, they will be able to consolidate their knowledge of the other language in Year Two and, later, in Year Three. Year Three students will cover study-units, primarily based on original sources, in literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, art and mythology. Of these study-units listed below, four synoptic units are offered to B.A. Honours students, two to B.A. General, in the second semester, for which students have to sit for examination papers. These synoptic units represent a variety of Greek and Latin authors writing in different genres: epic, narrative, elegy and lyric, oratory, satire, philosophy, historiography and drama. Other units include general surveys in various subject matters, as in Art, Women in the Classical World, Philosophy, History of Literature, Civilization, Art and Archaeology, Mythology, Epic and Literary Criticism. No dissertation is offered in the undergraduate degree, as it is understood that all students reading Classics start Latin and Greek from the very beginning, and so will need all the units provided to make up for the deficiency. The B.A. course will be the same as the B.A. Hons. Programme, except for the following: In Year Two, a student is required to pursue only all the basic language study-units, that is, Grammar, Syntax, Texts and Further Texts in the language offered that year (28 credits), whereas in Year Three 30 credits from the Year Three programme, including two Synoptic units. A student taking Classics for a subsidiary subject will pursue Year One for his studies in Greek or Latin, whichever language is offered in that year, in both semesters, and take up the other language in the first semester of Year II. Some of these units may be taken as optional, and they include also the following: Basic notions of Latin 1, Basic notions of Latin 2, Introduction to Latin, Basic notions of Greek 1, Basic notions of Greek 2 and Introduction to Greek.

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Code CLA1009 Title LATIN GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX 1 Type Lectures ECTS credits 8 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C.R. Vella Description Students here learn Latin Grammar, that is, the five

declensions of nouns, the three declensions of adjectives, the personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, emphatic, relative and interrogative pronouns, the four conjugations in both voices, deponent verbs, adverbs, numbers and the moods: indicative, imperative, participle, infinitive and subjunctive. Of the subjunctive mood, the student will learn the use of exhortation, wish for the future, prohibition and cum-clauses. The explanation of the grammar is illustrated by examples taken from the English language, while attention is given to word order and style, as well as the right use of the lexicon.

Reading List Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary. Oxford. Kennedy, B.H., The revised Latin primer. Longmans.

Code CLA1011 Title Greek Grammar and Syntax 1 Type Lectures ECTS credits 8 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercices (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C.R. Vella Description Students here learn Greek Grammar, that is, the three

declensions of nouns, the three declensions of adjectives, the personal, possessive, reflexive, demonstrative, emphatic, relative and interrogative pronouns, vowel-stemmed verbs, consonant-stemmed verbs, contracted verbs and -µι verbs, all in the active, middle and passive voices, adverbs, numbers, and the moods being the indicative, imperative, participle, infinitive, subjunctive, optative and verbal adjective. Furthermore, some aspects of syntax will be tackled (eg. indirect statement, genitive absolute). The explanation of the grammar is illustrated by examples taken from the English language, while attention is given to word order and style, as well as the right use of the lexicon.

Reading List Abbot and Mansfield, Primer of Greek grammar.

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Rivingtons. Liddle and Scott, English-Greek lexicon. Oxford.

Code CLA1013 Title Greek Texts Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description In order “to teach the easy before the difficult”, the Greek

readings start with simple sentences to adapted continuous prose to provide a progressive course, taking into consideration the standard reached in grammar. The obvious advantage of this progressive method is that students can be introduced to, or can revise, the main constructions one at a time. Handouts of such readings are to be provided by the lecturer and/or J.A.C.T. Greek Course, comprising grammar, reading, composition and vocabulary.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Greek course: reading Greek - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Liddell and Scott. Abridged Greek lexicon, Oxford University Press.

Code CLA1015 Title Latin Texts Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description In order “to teach the easy before the difficult”, the Latin

readings start with simple sentences to adapted continuous prose to provide a progressive course, taking into consideration the standard reached in grammar. The obvious advantage of this progressive method is that students can be introduced to, or can revise, the main constructions one at a time. Handouts of such readings are to be provided by the lecturer and/or J.A.C.T. Latin Course, comprising grammar, reading, composition and vocabulary.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Latin course: reading Latin - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary, Oxford University

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Press, or Cassell’s Latin dictionary. Code CLA2010 Title History of Greek and Roman Literature Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination (50%) + Assignment (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella, Mr Carmel Serracino Description This unit is meant to expose the student to as wide

perspective as possible of Greek and Roman genres and chronology of literary production. The following authors will therefore be discussed according to their genres: epic (Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Vergil, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus), didactic (Hesiod, Lucretius and Vergil), elegy and lyric (Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Alcman, Pindar, Catullus, Horace and Statius), satire (Archilochus, Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal and Persius), tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Seneca), Comedy (Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence), history (Herodotus, Thucydides, Sallust, Caesar, Livy and Tacitus), oratory (Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes and Cicero), rhetoric (Aristotle, Longinus, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus and Quintilian), philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Seneca), pastoral (Theocritus and Vergil), novel (Tatius, Longus, Petronius, Seneca and Apuleius), biography (Plutarch and Suetonius), correspondence (Cicero and Pliny) and scientific writing (Cato, Varro, Columella, Strabo, Pausanias, Vitruvius, Vegetius). In addition, students with basic knowledge of Latin and Greek will analyze extracts form Greek and Latin literature illustrating some of these genres.

Reading List Copley, F.O. Latin literature, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969. Rose, H.J. A handbook of Greek literature, Methuen, London, 1965

Code CLA2011 Title Greek Prose Composition Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory

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Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description The writing of Greek Prose is in some respects more

difficult than that of Latin, if it is to be done well. No text-book on the subject will achieve much unless it is supported by close and constant study of the prose used by Greek writers themselves. Emphasis should be made to provide practice in reproducing the Greek idiom, and in understanding how it differs from the English. The student must be familiarized with the Greek form of expression. Though in the modern educational environment, prose composition is offered rarely or optionally, it is still considered as an important tool for the student to master the language in order to read Greek authors with greater ease and ability. Handouts of proses would be provided by the lecturer in order to build up a progressive course.

Reading List Goodwin. Moods and tenses, Macmillan. J.A.C.T. Greek course: reading Greek - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Nash Williams, A.H. Introduction to continuous Greek prose composition, Macmillan. Reference: North and Hillard. Greek prose composition.

Code CLA2012 Title Greek Grammar and Syntax 2 Type Lectures ECTS credits 8 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here consolidate their knowledge of Greek

Grammar, pursue all the constructions of Syntax, subordinate clauses such as final, consecutive, indirect statement, command and question, wish for the future, indefinite construction, verbal nouns and adjectives, temporal, concessive, conditional and comparative, and are introduced to continuous prose composition.

Reading List Abbot and Mansfield, Primer of Greek grammar. Rivingtons. Liddle and Scott, English-Greek lexicon. Oxford.

Code CLA2014 Title Latin Prose Composition Type Lectures

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ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This comprises weekly tutorial sessions for translation of

more advanced passages from English into Latin. Students are here helped to translate orally in class, adopting the Latin idioms and styles met in various Latin authors which they currently read. This exercise will not only enable them revise all the rules of Latin grammar and syntax, but also express themselves in Latin.

Reading List Mountford, J.F. Bradley’s Arnold Latin prose composition, Longmans, London, 1947. North and Hillard, Latin Prose composition, Duckworth, 2003.

Code CLA2016 Title Further Latin Texts Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Oral and Written Exercises (50%) + Examination (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description Short passages selected from a variety of Latin authors

which feature the appropriate standard reached in grammar, followed by passages of moderate length, including verse/drama excerpts. This systematic approach produces a smooth road to fluency. Handouts of such readings are to be provided by the lecturer and/or Latin Course: Reading Latin - Text - containing long excerpts from Plautus to Medieval Latin.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Latin course: reading Latin - text, Cambridge University Press. Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary, Oxford University Press, or Cassell’s Latin dictionary.

Code CLA2017 Title Greek and Roman Civilization Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description A survey of the development of Greek and Roman

civilizations from Minoan and Mycenaean times to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west. Topics under review include the following: the geography of Hellas and its impact on Greek civilization; migrations, colonization and reciprocal influences; the political development; causes and effects of major confrontations; Athenian and Spartan society in the 5th century; the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander the Great; the Hellenistic age; the geography of Italy; the Etruscans and early Rome; the political development from monarchy to republic to principate; causes and effects of major wars; the collapse of the republic; Augustus and the Julio-Claudians; Roman society and change; the crises of the 3rd century A.D.; Diocletian and Constantine; the collapse of the empire in the west.

Reading List Buckley, T., Aspects of Greek history, 750-323 B.C., London, 2000. Bury, J.B. and Meiggs, R., A history of Greece, London, 1979. Cameron, A., The later Roman empire, London, 1993. Cary, M. and Scullard, H.H., A history of Rome, London, 1994.

Code CLA2018 Title Further Greek Texts Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here attempt more difficult passages for

translation into English, chosen from a wide selection of authors of different genres. Students are helped in class to tackle such passages by being asked to read and analyze orally unprepared passages, and to attempt other similar ones at home.

Reading List Private reading of Homer, Xenophon, Herodotus, Lysias and Plato.

Code CLA2019 Title Latin Grammar and Syntax 2 Type Lectures

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ECTS credits 8 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here consolidate their knowledge of Latin

Grammar, pursue all the constructions of Syntax, clauses like indirect statement, command and question, relative with the subjunctive, verbs of fearing, gerund and gerundive, conditional, concessive, comparative, causal and temporal, and are introduced to continuous prose composition.

Reading List Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary. Oxford. Kennedy, B. H., The revised Latin primer. Longmans.

Code CLA3001 Title Classical Mythology in Pictorial Art Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description The course provides an analysis of mythological data in

Greek vase painting. The first lectures in the course will discuss the techniques in black-figure and red-figure vase painting used in the ancient world; focus briefly on different artists and their style; analyze general conventions and inscriptions on the vases; and discuss the origin of the vases and museums in which they are found. Subsequent lectures will give an overview of the nature and definition of Greek myth; theories of myth (historicism, allegory, myth-ritual, comparative mythology, psychoanalysis, structuralism); sources for Greek mythology, notably Homer, Hesiod, Stesichorus, Simonides, Bacchylides, Pindar, the Greek tragedians, Plato; and the content of Greek myth in terms of the classification of Apollodorus. Extant Greek vases will be analyzed in terms of the Greek gods and goddesses; creation myths and fights between gods and other creatures; myths about heroes (Perseus, Heracles, Theseus); the Trojan War and its aftermath. Towards the end of the course there will also be discussion on the nature of the hero in Greek myth, and the nature of the Greek gods and their society in the light of their appearances in Greek pictorial art.

Reading List Boardman J., Athenian black figure vases, London, 1974 Boardman J., Athenian red figure vases: The Archaic

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period, London, 1975 Boardman J., Athenian red figure vases: The Classical period, London, 1989 Grant M., The myths of the Greeks and Romans, London, 1962 Graves R., The Greek myths, 2 vols., Harmondsworth, 1955 Kirk G.S., The nature of Greek myths, Penguin, 1974 Sprecate” in Archeologia Viva, July/August 2001, XX.88 n.s. Rose H.J., A handbook of Greek mythology, 6th ed., London, 1958

Code CLA3002 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 3: Elegy/Lyric: Catullus and Horace Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Ms Maria Zammit, Prof. Horatio C.R. Vella Description Texts from the poems of Catullus and the Odes III of

Horace, which are briefly introduced regarding their historical and literary background, explained in detail and translated in class.

Reading List Fordyce, C.J., Catullus: a commentary, Oxford, 1966. Lyne, R.O.A.M., ed., Catullus, Cambridge, 1973. Page, T.E. Q. Horatii Flacci Carminum libri IV, Epodon liber, Macmillan, London, 1970. Rudd, N., Horace. In E.J. Kenney and W.V. Clausen eds., The age of Augustus, The Cambridge history of Classical literature, Volume III, Part 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 74-108. Sellar, W.Y., The Roman poets of the Republic, Oxford, 1905.

Code CLA3003 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 4: Drama: Euripides and Plautus Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Mr Carmel Serracino, Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides and the

Mostellaria of Plautus, which are briefly introduced,

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explained and translated in class. Reading List Euripides, Fabulae II (ed. J. Diggle), Oxford, 1981.

Plautus, Mostellaria, Oxford Classical Texts. Slater, N.W., Plautus in performance: the theatre of the mind, Princeton, 1985.

Code CLA3004 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 4: Oratory: Demosthenes and Cicero Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella, Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the De corona of Demosthenes and the Pro

Archia of Cicero, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Cicero, Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta (ed. G.H. Nall), London, Macmillan, 1952. Demosthenes, De corona (ed. H. Yunis), Harvard, Harvard University Press, 2001. Dorey, T.A.., Cicero, London, 1965. Jones, A.H.M., The criminal courts of the Roman Republic and Principate, Oxford, 1972. Raphael, S., Demosthenes and his time: a study in defeat, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Code CLA3005 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Satire: Petronius and Aristophanes Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Anthony Bonanno, Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius and the

Clouds of Aristophanes, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Aristophanes, Clouds, Oxford Classical Texts. Coffey, M., Roman satire, London, 1976. Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis (ed. M.S. Smith), Oxford, 1975. Ussher, R.G.G., Aristophanes, Oxford, 1979.

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Code CLA3014 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Narrative (Xenophon and Caesar) Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Mr Victor Bonnici, Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Anabasis of Xenophon, and from the De

bello Gallico of Caesar, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Du Pontet, R.L.A. ed., Caesar, Commentarii I, Oxford, 1963. Usher, S., The historians of Greece and Rome, Oklahoma, 1985. Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. E.C. Marchant), Oxford, Clarendon, 1963. Yavetz, Z., Julius Caesar and his public image, Cornell, 1983.

Code CLA3007 Title Literary Criticism: Aristotle and Horace Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Rev. Victor Xuereb, Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Poetics of Aristotle and the De arte poetica

of Horace, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Aristotle, De arte poetica liber (ed. R. Kassel), Oxford, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1975. Brink, C.O. ed., Horace on poetry: Epistles Book II, Cambridge, 1982. Costa, C.D.N. ed., Horace, London, 1973. Lucas, F.L., Tragedy: serious drama in relation to Aristotle’s Poetics, London, 1957. Russell, D.A., Criticism in antiquity, Duckworth, 1981. Selden, R. Ed., The theory of criticism: from Plato to the present, Longman, 1988.

Code CLA3008 Title Greek Mythology

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Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Oral Examination (50%) + Examination (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella, Mr Carmel Serracino Description This unit is meant to help the student penetrate into the

mystery of myth creation and tradition, analyzing theoretical assessment, as well as literary evidence. Topics discussed will include various definitions and interpretations of what is mythology, what is special with Greek mythology, the common episodes which Greek mythology shares with Hurrian, Babylonian and Hebrew myths, the historical sagas, and the relationship of myth with religion, particularly with the concept of fertility. Extracts taken from various Greek and Roman authors, such as Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Ovid on the subject of mythology will be used for translation in class and for illustration of the common inclusion of myths in Greek and Latin literature.

Reading List Kirk, G.S., Greek myths, Penguin, Aylesbury, 1974. Morford, M.P.O. and Lenardon, R.J., Classical mythology, Longman, New York, 1995. Rose, H.J., A handbook of Greek mythology, Methuen, London, 1965.

Code CLA3009 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Epic (Homer and Vergil) Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Victor Bonnici, Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from Iliad VI and Odyssey IX of Homer, and the

Aeneid II of Vergil, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Bowra, C.M., Some characteristics of literary epic. In S. Commager ed., Virgil: A collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, 1966. Gransden, K., The Aeneid, Cambridge, 1990. Homer, The Iliad, Oxford Classical texts. Homer, The Odyssey, Oxford Classical texts. Vergil, The Aeneid, Oxford Classical texts. Toohey, P., Reading epic: an introduction to the ancient narratives, Routledge, 1992.

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Trypanis, C.A. The Homeric epics, Aris and Phillips, 1977. Code CLA3011 Title Classical Rhetoric and Prosody Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Analysis task (25%) + Written Exercises (50%) + Practical

(25%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This unit analyses the various rules of prosody and metres

(hexameter, elegiac, polymeter and comedy) used in both Greek and Latin verse, with oral scanning practice in class, as well as the history of Rhetorical theory developed by Aristotle, Longinus, Cicero, Horace, Tacitus and Quintilian, illustrated by passages taken from Greek and Latin orations and treatises.

Reading List Allen, W.S. Accent and rhythm, Cambridge, 1973. Kennedy, G.A. The art of persuasion in Greece, Princeton, 1963 West, M.L. Greek metre, Oxford, 1982.

Code CLA3012 Title Greek and Latin Unseen Passages Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Horatio C.R. Vella, Ms Maria Zammit Description This course is an exercise in translation from Greek and

Latin passages taken from literature, intended to consolidate the student’s knowledge of grammar, syntax and vocabulary, and to expose him to as many different genres in verse and prose as possible.

Reading List / Code CLA3016 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 3: Historiography: Herodotus and Livy Type Synoptic Study-Unit ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination

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Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Histories II of Herodotus and the Ab urbe

condita of Livy, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Dorey, T.A. ed., Livy, Edinburgh, 1971. Herodotus, Historiae II, Oxford Classical Texts. Levick, B., The ancient historian and his materials, Franborough, 1975. Livy, Ab urbe condita, Oxford Classical Texts.

Code CLA3023 Title Classical Philosophy Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Rev. Charles Delia Description This unit is meant to give the student a survey of Greek and

Latin philosophical thought, highlighting from texts read in the original, especially from Aristotle and Plato.

Reading List Guthrie, W.K.Ch., The Greek philosophers from Thales to Aristotle, London, Methuen, 1950. Long, A.A., Hellenistic philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. Timothy, L.A., The tenets of Stoicism, assembled and systematized from the works of L. Annaeus Seneca. Wood, N., Cicero’s social and political thought, California, 1988.

Code CLA3024 Title Women in the Classical World Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description The course investigates the status and position of women in

Greek and Roman antiquity – their material life, their economic conditions, their diverse roles - as well as discussing attitudes towards women. The first part of the

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course will deal with women in Homer and Bronze Age women; archaic Greece and attitudes to women in Sparta, and the literature of Hesiod, Simonides and Sappho; women in Classical Athens – politics, religion and legal status; the question of women and freedom in Classical Athens; the mighty women of Greek Tragedy – Clytemnestra, Antigone, Medea; women in Rome – politics and legal status; property, marriage and inheritance in ancient Rome; women and the Roman economy, and women and religion in the Roman world. The second part will focus on short selections from eight Classical authors. There will be a detailed study and translation of extracts from Aulius Gellius, Attic Nights; Cicero, Brutus; Gaius, Institutes; Justinian, Institutes; Pliny, Letters; Juvenal, Satires; Quintilian, Institute of Oratory, and Suetonius, Life of Augustus. A basic knowledge of Latin is required for the second part only.

Reading List Bauman R., Women and politics in ancient Rome, Routledge, 1992 Cameron A. and Kuhrt A., Images of women in antiquity, London, 1983 Fantham Elaine, Helene Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah Pomeroy and H. Alan Shapiro eds., Women in the classical world, Oxford, 1994 Just R., Women in Athenian law and life, London, 1989. Lefkowitz M.R. and Fant M.B., Women’s life in Greece and Rome, London, 1982

Code CLA3026 Title Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Philosophy: Plato and Cicero Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Mr Carmel Serracino, Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the Republic of Plato and the De amicitia and

the De senectute of Cicero, which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Grant, M., Cicero - The Good Life, Penguin, 1971 Hunt, H.A.K., The Humanism of Cicero, Melbourne University Press, 1954 “Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy” (article on Cicero by Stephen A. White) Routledge, 1998 Glucker, J., 'Cicero's Philosophical Affiliations' in J. Dillon and A.A. Long (eds.) The Question of Eclecticism, Berkeley 1988

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Code CLA3028 Title Classical Epic Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Oral Examination (50%) + Examination (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturers Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella, Mr Carmel Serracino Description This is a survey of the development of epic writing from

Homer to Latin Silver Age poets, with particular focus on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil’s Aeneid. The background of epic writing is given with reference to Greek prehistory and oral tradition. Then follows a discussion of the art and contents in the two epics of Homer, including myth, structure, imagery, morality, tragedy, travel and novel. Vergil’s historical background is next given. A comparison of Vergil with Homer is a necessity, bringing out the originality of Vergil especially through his use of allegory and indirect reference to his Roman situation. Particular passages from Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, early Latin epic fragments, Vergil and Latin Silver Age Poets are explained and translated in class.

Reading List Bowra, C.M. ed., The Oxford book of Greek verse, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Garrod, H.W., The Oxford book of Latin verse, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Homer, The Iliad (tr. E.V. Rieu), Penguin. Homer, The Odyssey (tr. E.V. Rieu), Penguin. Toohey, P. Reading epic, Routledge, 1992. Vergil, The Aeneid (tr. W.F. Jackson Knight), Penguin.

Code ARC1003 Title CLASSICAL ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY Type Lectures ECTS credits 6 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Anthony Bonanno Description History of the studies of classical art and archaeology.

Basic notions of Greek and Roman architecture. Survey of Greek and Roman art. Discussion in some detail of artistic personalities and individual works of sculpture and painting. Topographical notions of typical Greek and

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Roman cities. Reading List J. Boardman, Greek Art (3rd ed., London 1986)

G.M.A. Richter, Handbook of Greek Art (9th ed., London 1987) M. Henig (ed.), A Handbook of Roman Art (Oxford 1983) N.H. Ramage & A. Ramage, Cambridge Illustrated History of Roman Art (CUP 1991)

Code ARC2023 Title SOURCES FOR ANCIENT ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Anthony Bonanno Description This unit is meant to enhance the students’ wider

knowledge of the Classics by further reading from the original literary and epigraphic sources on art and history. The first part involves examining selected texts (extracts) in Classical literature in the original language, which shed light on the development of Ancient Art. Selected readings mostly from Pliny’s Natural History Bks 34-36, but also from other ancient authors, including Greek ones, depending on the students’ knowledge of this language.

Reading List Francis Brown, S.R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic, Oxford: Claredon Press, 1951(reprint with corrections of the 1906 edition) Karl Feyerabend, Pocket Hebrew Dictionary: Hebrew English, Münich, Berlin: Langenscheidt, n.d. H.P. Rüger, W. Rudolph (ed.), Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 2nd revised edn., Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1983 J. Weingreen, A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew, 2nd edn., Oxford: Claredon Press, 1959

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OPTIONAL STUDY-UNITS Code CLA1001 Title Basic notions of Latin 1 Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This study-unit is intended to acquaint students with Latin

words, terms, and proverbs currently used today. Each word and term are explained both in their modern application, and through Latin grammar and syntax. This course will help students of various Departments to acquire an appreciation of the use of Latin in their own studies, and to enable them to handle easier Latin passages.

Reading List / Code CLA1002 Title Basic notions of Latin 2 Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit CLA1001 Basic notions of Latin I or knowledge of Latin

Grammar Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This study-unit is an extension of CLA1001, concentrating

on Latin Syntax. Reading List / Code CLA1003 Title Introduction to Latin Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This study-unit is intended to teach students the grammar

and syntax of the Latin Language, and to expose them to quotations taken from Classical and Ecclesiastical sources

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and etymological analysis of modern words derived from Latin.

Reading List / Code CLA1004 Title Basic notions of Greek 1 Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description This study-unit is intended to acquaint students with Greek

words, terms, and proverbs currently used today. Each word and term are explained both in their modern application, and through Greek grammar and syntax. This course will help students of various Departments to acquire an appreciation of the use of Greek in their own studies, and to enable them to handle Greek sentences.

Reading List / Code CLA1005 Title Basic notions of Greek 2 Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit CLA1004 Basic notions of Greek 1 or knowledge of Greek

Grammar Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description This study-unit is intended for students with some

knowledge of Greek. It will tackle Greek syntax through sentences adapted from Greek proverbs and others in English to be translated into Greek. Attention is also given to etymology.

Reading List / Code CLA1006 Title Introduction to Greek Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description This study-unit is intended to teach students the grammar

and syntax of the Greek Language, and to expose them to quotations taken from Classical and Ecclesiastical sources and etymological analysis of modern words derived from Greek.

Reading List / Code CLA1109 Title Introductory Latin Grammar Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here learn Latin Grammar and some aspects of

Syntax. The explanation of the grammar is illustrated by examples taken from the English language.

Reading List Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary. Oxford. Kennedy, B. H., The revised Latin primer. Longmans.

Code CLA1111 Title Introductory Greek Grammar Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here learn Greek Grammar and some aspects of

Syntax (eg. prohibition, exhortation, wish for the future, indirect statement, indirect command, indirect question, genitive absolute). The explanation of the grammar is illustrated by examples taken from the English language.


Code CLA1113 Title Introductory Greek Texts A Type Lectures ECTS credits 2

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Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description This unit is intended for students who either have some

knowledge of Greek, or who are already acquiring that knowledge. Simple sentences and passages are tackled from Greek.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Greek course: reading Greek - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Liddell and Scott. Abridged Greek lexicon, Oxford University Press.

Code CLA1115 Title Introductory Latin Texts A Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description This unit is intended for students who either have some

knowledge of Latin, or who are already acquiring that knowledge. Simple sentences and passages are tackled from Greek.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Latin course: reading Latin - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary, Oxford University Press, or Cassell’s Latin dictionary.

Code CLA1213 Title Introductory Greek Texts A and B Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description These units are intended for students who either have some

knowledge of Greek, or who are already acquiring that knowledge. Simple sentences and passages are tackled from Greek.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Greek course: reading Greek - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press.

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Liddell and Scott. Abridged Greek lexicon, Oxford University Press.

Code CLA1215 Title Introductory Latin Texts A and B Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description These units are intended for students who either have some

knowledge of Latin, or who are already acquiring that knowledge. Simple sentences and passages are tackled from Greek.

Reading List J.A.C.T. Latin course: reading Latin - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary, Oxford University Press, or Cassell’s Latin dictionary.

Code CLA2110 Title A survey of Greek and Roman Literature Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This unit is meant to expose the student to as wide

perspective as possible of Greek and Roman genres and chronology of literary production. The following authors will therefore be discussed according to their genres: epic (Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Vergil, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus), didactic (Hesiod, Lucretius and Vergil), elegy and lyric (Sappho, Alcaeus, Stesichorus, Alcman, Pindar, Catullus, Horace and Statius), satire (Archilochus, Lucilius, Horace, Juvenal and Persius), tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Seneca), Comedy (Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus and Terence), history (Herodotus, Thucydides, Sallust, Caesar, Livy and Tacitus), oratory (Lysias, Isocrates, Demosthenes and Cicero), rhetoric (Aristotle, Longinus, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus and Quintilian), philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Seneca), pastoral (Theocritus and Vergil), novel (Tatius,

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Longus, Petronius, Seneca and Apuleius), biography (Plutarch and Suetonius), correspondence (Cicero and Pliny) and scientific writing (Cato, Varro, Columella, Strabo, Pausanias, Vitruvius, Vegetius).

Reading List Copley, F.O. Latin literature, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969. Rose, H.J. A handbook of Greek literature, Methuen, London, 1965.

Code CLA2111 Title Prose Composition in Greek Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit To have completed a full year in Greek Grammar and

Syntax Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description This course is intended for students who have already

completed a full year in Greek Grammar and Syntax. Students are here helped to translate into Greek orally in class, adopting the Greek idioms and styles met in various Greek authors which they currently read.

Reading List Goodwin. Moods and tenses, Macmillan. J.A.C.T. Greek course: reading Greek - grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Cambridge University Press. Nash Williams, A.H. Introduction to continuous Greek prose composition, Macmillan. Reference: North and Hillard. Greek prose composition.

Code CLA2112 Title Introductory Greek Syntax Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here are instructed in all the divisions of Greek

syntax, including conditional, temporal, concessive, comparative, verbs of fearing, ecc. They practise in them by frequent translations into Greek.


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Code CLA2114 Title Prose Composition in Latin Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit To have completed a full year in Latin Grammar and Syntax Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This course is intended for students who have already

completed a full year in Latin Grammar and Syntax. Students are here helped to translate into Latin orally in class, adopting the Latin idioms and styles met in various Latin authors which they currently read.

Reading List Recommended exercise books: Mountford, J.F. Bradley’s Arnold Latin prose composition, Longmans, London, 1947. North and Hillard, Latin Prose composition, Duckworth, 2003.

Code CLA2116 Title Further Latin Passages A Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Latin Grammar Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Examination (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description This course is intended for students who already have some

knowledge of Latin Grammar, and who are presently learning Latin Syntax. More advanced passages are translated from Greek.


Code CLA2117 Title Greek Civilization Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description A survey of the development of Greek civilization,

discussing the geography of Hellas and its impact on Greek civilization; migrations, colonization and reciprocal influences; the political development; causes and effects of major confrontations; Athenian and Spartan society in the 5th century; the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander the Great; the Hellenistic age.


Code CLA2118 Title Further Greek Passages A Type Lectures ECTS credits 2 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Greek Grammar Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This course is intended for students who already have some

knowledge of Greek Grammar, and who are presently learning Greek Syntax. More advanced passages are translated from Greek.


Code CLA2119 Title Introductory Latin Syntax Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Grammar Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Students here are instructed in all the divisions of Latin

Syntax, including indirect statement, indirect command, indirect question, final clause, consecutive clause, etc. They practise in them by frequent translations into Greek.

Reading List Lewis and Short, A Latin dictionary. Oxford.

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Kennedy, B. H., The revised Latin primer. Longmans.

Code CLA2216 Title Further Latin Passages A and B Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit Some knowledge of Latin Grammar Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Examination (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description These courses are intended for students who already have

some knowledge of Latin Grammar, and who are presently learning Latin Syntax. More advanced passages are translated from Latin.


Code CLA2217 Title Roman Civilization Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description A survey of the development of Roman civilization,

discussing the geography of Italy; the Etruscans and early Rome; the political development from monarchy to republic to principate; causes and effects of major wars; the collapse of the republic; Augustus and the Julio-Claudians; Roman society and change; the crises of the 3rd century A.D.; Diocletian and Constantine; the collapse of the empire in the west.


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Code CLA2218 Title Further Greek Passages A and B Type Lectures ECTS credits 4 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Exercises (50%) + Classwork (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description These courses are intended for students who already have

some knowledge of Greek Grammar, and who are presently learning Greek Syntax. More advanced passages are translated from Greek.


Code CLA3101 Title A survey of Classical Mythology in Pictorial Art Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description This course provides an analysis of mythological data in

Greek vase painting. Extant Greek vases will be analyzed in terms of the Greek gods and goddesses; creation myths and fights between gods and other creatures; myths about heroes, and the Trojan War and its aftermath.

Reading List Boardman J., Athenian black figure vases, London, 1974 Boardman J., Athenian red figure vases: The Archaic period, London, 1975 Boardman J., Athenian red figure vases: The Classical period, London, 1989

Code CLA3102 Title Catullus Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%), Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the poems of Catullus, which are briefly

introduced regarding their historical and literary

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background, explained in detail and translated in class. Reading List Fordyce, C.J., Catullus: a commentary, Oxford, 1966.

Lyne, R.O.A.M., ed., Catullus, Cambridge, 1973. Cambridge history of Classical literature, Volume III, Part 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 74-108. Sellar, W.Y., The Roman poets of the Republic, Oxford, 1905.

Code CLA3103 Title Euripides Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides which are

briefly introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Euripides, Fabulae II (ed. J. Diggle), Oxford, 1981. Code CLA3104 Title Demosthenes Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Texts from the De corona of Demosthenes, which are

briefly introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Demosthenes, De corona (ed. H. Yunis), Harvard, Harvard

University Press, 2001. Raphael, S., Demosthenes and his time: a study in defeat, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Code CLA3105 Title Petronius Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Anthony Bonanno

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Description Texts from the Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Coffey, M., Roman satire, London, 1976. Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis (ed. M.S. Smith), Oxford, 1975.

Code CLA3106 Title Xenophon Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Anabasis of Xenophon, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Usher, S., The historians of Greece and Rome, Oklahoma,

1985. Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. E.C. Marchant), Oxford, Clarendon, 1963.

Code CLA3107 Title Aristotle Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Rev. Victor Xuereb S.J. Description Texts from the Poetics of Aristotle which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Aristotle, De arte poetica liber (ed. R. Kassel), Oxford,

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1975. Lucas, F.L., Tragedy: serious drama in relation to Aristotle’s Poetics, London, 1957. Russell, D.A., Criticism in antiquity, Duckworth, 1981.

Code CLA3108 Title A survey of Greek Mythology Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Oral Examination Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This unit is meant to help the student penetrate into the

mystery of myth creation and tradition, analyzing theoretical assessment, as well as literary evidence. Topics discussed will include various definitions and interpretations of what is mythology, what is special with Greek mythology, the common episodes which Greek mythology shares with Hurrian, Babylonian and Hebrew myths, the historical sagas, and the relationship of myth with religion, particularly with the concept of fertility.

Reading List Kirk, G.S., Greek myths, Penguin, Aylesbury, 1974. Morford, M.P.O. and Lenardon, R.J., Classical mythology, Longman, New York, 1995. Rose, H.J., A handbook of Greek mythology, Methuen, London, 1965.

Code CLA3109 Title Homer Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from Iliad VI and Odyssey IX of Homer which are

briefly introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Bowra, C.M., Some characteristics of literary epic. In S.

Commager ed., Virgil: A collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, 1966. Homer, The Iliad, Oxford Classical texts. Homer, The Odyssey, Oxford Classical texts. Toohey, P., Reading epic: an introduction to the ancient narratives, Routledge, 1992. Trypanis, C.A. The Homeric epics, Aris and Phillips, 1977.

Code CLA3111 Title Classical Rhetoric Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin/Greek Method of assessment Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This unit offers a history of Rhetorical theory developed by

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Aristotle, Longinus, Cicero, Horace, Tacitus and Quintilian, with literary illustrations taken from Greek and Latin orations and treatises.

Reading List Clarke, M.L. Rhetoric at Rome, Routledge, 1996. Kennedy, G.A. The art of persuasion in Greece, Princeton, 1963 Worthington, I. Greek Rhetoric in action, Routledge, 1994

Code CLA3112 Title Greek Unseen Passages Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Examination (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This course is an exercise in translation from Greek

passages taken from literature, intended to consolidate the student’s knowledge of grammar, syntax and vocabulary, and to expose him to as many different genres in verse and prose as possible.

Reading List / Code CLA3116 Title Herodotus Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Histories II of Herodotus, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Herodotus, Historiae II, Oxford Classical Texts.

Levick, B., The ancient historian and his materials, Franborough, 1975.

Code CLA3126 Title Plato Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Republic of Plato, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Plato, Republic Code CLA3128 Title A survey of Classical Epic Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Oral Examination Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This is a survey of the development of epic writing from

Homer to Latin Silver Age poets, with particular focus on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil’s Aeneid. The background of epic writing is given with reference to Greek prehistory and oral tradition. Then follows a discussion of the art and contents in the two epics of Homer, including myth, structure, imagery, morality, tragedy, travel and novel. Vergil’s historical background is next given. A comparison of Vergil with Homer is a necessity, bringing out the originality of Vergil especially through his use of allegory and indirect reference to his Roman situation.

Reading List Bowra, C.M. ed., The Oxford book of Greek verse, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Garrod, H.W., The Oxford book of Latin verse, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Homer, The Iliad (tr. E.V. Rieu), Penguin. Homer, The Odyssey (tr. E.V. Rieu), Penguin. Toohey, P. Reading epic, Routledge, 1992. Vergil, The Aeneid (tr. W.F. Jackson Knight), Penguin.

Code CLA3202 Title Horace in his odes Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description Texts from the Odes III of Horace, which are briefly

introduced regarding their historical and literary background, explained in detail and translated in class.

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Reading List Page, T.E. Q. Horatii Flacci Carminum libri IV, Epodon liber, Macmillan, London, 1970. Rudd, N., Horace. In E.J. Kenney and W.V. Clausen eds., The age of Augustus, The Cambridge history of Classical literature, Volume III, Part 3, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 74-108.

Code CLA3203 Title Plautus Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Mostellaria of Plautus, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Plautus, Mostellaria, Oxford Classical Texts.

Slater, N.W., Plautus in performance: the theatre of the mind, Princeton, 1985.

Code CLA3204 Title Cicero in his Pro Archia Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the Pro Archia of Cicero, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Cicero, Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta (ed. G.H. Nall),

London, Macmillan, 1952. Dorey, T.A.., Cicero, London, 1965. Jones, A.H.M., The criminal courts of the Roman Republic and Principate, Oxford, 1972.

Code CLA3205 Title Aristophanes Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade

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Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the Clouds of Aristophanes, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Aristophanes, Clouds, Oxford Classical Texts.

Ussher, R.G.G., Aristophanes, Oxford, 1979. Code CLA3206 Title Caesar Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the De bello Gallico of Caesar, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Du Pontet, R.L.A. ed., Caesar, Commentarii I, Oxford,

1963. Usher, S., The historians of Greece and Rome, Oklahoma, 1985. Yavetz, Z., Julius Caesar and his public image, Cornell, 1983.

Code CLA3207 Title Horace Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Carmel Serracino Description Texts from the De arte poetica of Horace, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Brink, C.O. ed., Horace on poetry: Epistles Book II,

Cambridge, 1982. Costa, C.D.N. ed., Horace, London, 1973. Russell, D.A., Criticism in antiquity, Duckworth, 1981. Selden, R. Ed., The theory of criticism: from Plato to the present, Longman, 1988.

Code CLA3209 Title Vergil Type Lectures

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ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit / Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the Aeneid II of Vergil, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Bowra, C.M., Some characteristics of literary epic. In S.

Commager ed., Virgil: A collection of critical essays, Prentice-Hall, 1966. Gransden, K., The Aeneid, Cambridge, 1990. Vergil, The Aeneid, Oxford Classical texts. Toohey, P., Reading epic: an introduction to the ancient narratives, Routledge, 1992.

Code CLA3211 Title Classical Prosody Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin/Greek Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Prof. Horatio C. R. Vella Description This unit analyses the various rules of prosody and metres

(hexameter, elegiac, polymeter and comedy) used in both Greek and Latin verse, with oral scanning practice in class.

Reading List Allen, W.S. Accent and rhythm, Cambridge, 1973 West, M.L. Greek metre, Oxford, 1982

Code CLA3212 Title Latin Unseen Passages Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Examination (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description This course is an exercise in translation from Latin passages

taken from literature, intended to consolidate the student’s knowledge of grammar, syntax and vocabulary, and to expose him to as many different genres in verse and prose as possible.

Reading List /

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Code CLA3216 Title Livy Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Mr Victor Bonnici Description Texts from the Ab urbe condita of Livy, which are briefly

introduced, explained and translated in class. Reading List Dorey, T.A. ed., Livy, Edinburgh, 1971.

Livy, Ab urbe condita, Oxford Classical Texts. Code CLA3226 Title Cicero Type Lectures ECTS credits 3 Pre-requisite study-unit Knowledge of Latin Method of assessment Assignment (50%) + Written Exercises (50%) Result Percentage mark & grade Attendance Obligatory Lecturer Ms Maria Zammit Description Texts from the De amicitia and the De senectute of Cicero,

which are briefly introduced, explained and translated in class.

Reading List Grant, M., Cicero - The Good Life, Penguin, 1971 Hunt, H.A.K., The Humanism of Cicero, Melbourne University Press, 1954 “Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy” (article on Cicero by Stephen A. White) Routledge, 1998 Glucker, J., 'Cicero's Philosophical Affiliations' in J. Dillon and A.A. Long (eds.) The Question of Eclecticism, Berkeley 1988.

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