Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research): Classics (Master 2014-2015) - Prospectus

First year

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
The Commentary	10
Electives: select from the following courses (20 EC):
Seminar Greek: Socrates: drama, philosophy, society	5 or 10
Seminar Latin: Cicero and Ciceronianism(s). Aspects of the reception of his persona and his style from Antiquity onwards	5 or 10
Tutorial Latin: Aesthetic Experience in Roman Antiquity	5 or 10
Debating the ancient economy	10
Between Jerusalem and Rome: Judaism and Christianity in the First Century	10
Epigraphy	10
“Will there be children?” Procreation, religion and sexuality in the ancient world	10
Privatissimum Greek: Protagoras of Abdera: Sources and Echoes	600
Second semester
Research School Elective(s)	5
Electives: select from the following courses (20 EC)
Seminar Latin: Callimachus in Rome	5 or 10
Seminar Greek: The Greek Anthology: Form, Function and Followings of an Important Collection of Greek Poetry	5 or 10
Seminar Ancient Philosophy: The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful: the Aesthetics, Ethics, and Metaphysics of Plotinus	5 or 10
Tutorial Greek: Ancient Education	5 or 10
Roman North Africa: a stolen continent	10
Numismatics	10
Christianity in the Greco-Roman World: The Second Century	10
Germs and the city: hygiene, illness and mortality in the Roman metropolis	10
The archaeology of ancient religions: Paganism, Judaism, Christianity	5
Psychology, Ethics, and Education from Antiquity to the Present	10

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
MA Thesis Tutorial Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research)	5
Core Course: The Commentary	10
Research School Elective(s)	5
Elective (10 EC): select from list of electives in semester I, Year 1
Second semester
MA Thesis Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research)	25
Thesis presentation and research proposal	5