Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research): Classics (Master 2013-2014) - Prospectus

First year

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
Cultural Contact in the Hellenistic World	10
Track electives Students should attend at least two courses (20 EC in total).
Seminar Latin: Memory and rhetoric	5.0/10.0
Debating the ancient economy	10
Tutorial Latin: Mussolini Dux: The Latin Literature of Italian Fascism	5.0/10.0
Seminar Greek: Scandalous Arts in Ancient Greece and the Modern World	5.0/10.0
Tutorial Greek: Matricide Three Times Over	5.0/10.0
Graeco-Roman Egypt: a multi-cultural society	10
Greek Historical Morphology	10
Second semester
Students should attend at least three courses (30 EC in total).
Seminar Latin: Quintilian, Institutio oratoria	5.0/10.0
Tutorial Latin: Writing Rome. The Physical and Symbolic City in Latin Poetry	5.0/10.0
Seminar Greek/Ancient Philosophy: Contested Democracy	5.0/10.0
Tutorial Greek: Language as a cultural value: capita selecta from the history of ancient linguistic theories	5.0/10.0
Roman North Africa: a stolen continent	10
Divination: from the Pythia to Paul (the octopus)	10
Plato's Timaeus: Science, Politics and Morality	10
Epigraphy	10
Extracurricular courses
Privatissimum Greek: Protagoras of Abdera: Sources and Echoes	5.0/10.0

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
Cultural Contact in the Hellenistic World	10
MA Thesis Tutorial Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research)	10
Track electives Students should attend at least one course (10 EC in total).
Seminar Latin: Memory and rhetoric	5.0/10.0
Seminar Greek: Scandalous Arts in Ancient Greece and the Modern World	5.0/10.0
Tutorial Latin: Mussolini Dux: The Latin Literature of Italian Fascism	5.0/10.0
Debating the ancient economy	10
Tutorial Greek: Matricide Three Times Over	5.0/10.0
Graeco-Roman Egypt: a multi-cultural society	10
Greek Historical Morphology	10
Second semester
MA Thesis Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research)	25
Thesis presentation and research proposal	5