TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
CCC TEACHING PLAN 2007-8
For the examination, students must offer three topics in each language, which must include a
prose topic (i.e. one of topics 4 and 5 for Greek, one of topics 8 and 9 for Latin). Taster sessions
on topics 1 and 6 have already taken place in terms 1 and 2. In TT 2008 there will be three
sessions taught jointly by three tutors (literature, history and archaeology) on three Greek topics
to whole-year classes (all year 1), in three topics, the same for the Roman side in MT 2008. Thus
students will have had classes on four of the five topics and will probably want to offer their three
topics from these four.
GREEK TOPICS [team = Tim, John, Alexia]
(A = texts set in original, B = texts to be known in translation, C = archaeological material)
TT 2008 – THREE OF :
2. State and individual.
A : Sophocles, Antigone 1–1114
B : Sophocles, Antigone 1115–1353.
C : Burial and funeral monuments in fifth century.
3. Theatre in the city
A : Aristophanes, Frogs 1–268, 830–1533
B : Frogs 269–829
C : Theatre images in archaeology
4. Family, marriage and oikos
A : Lysias 1, Xen. Oecon. 1–2, 7–11
B : Aeschylus Agamemnon
C : Houses
5. ‘Orientalism’
A : Herodotus 1.1-95
B : Herodotus 1.96-216
C : Lydians and Persians in art
LATIN TOPICS [team = Gail, Anna, Alexia]
MT 2008
7. Mythology, Roman response to Greece
A : Ovid, Met. 3.339–510 and 8
B : Ovid, rest of Met. 3, Lucr. 1.1–101, 2.589–660, 3.978–1023, 5.1–54.
C : Greek myth in Roman art
9. Social Satire
A : Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis 26.7–36, 47–78
B : Petronius, Cena 37–46; Juvenal 1, 3–5
C : Pompeii, esp. House of Vettii
10.Games and spectacles
A : Mart. De Spectaculis and 5.8, 14, 24, 31, 35, 65, Cic. Fam. 7.1, Ov. Am.
3.2, Sen. Epist. 7 and 70, Tertullian De Spectaculis 15–25
B : Rest of Tertullian De Spectaculis; Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.1–228
C : Colosseum; gladiatorial images