The Classical World and Its Reception

Our course explores the way the Classical world has been reflected in the art, literature and culture of later periods, and how the ancient world has shaped the modern. You will be taught in the Department of Classics, by experts in the field of Classical reception. Our research and teaching strengths stretch from the Aegean Bronze Age and the ancient Near East, through Greece and Rome to Byzantine and Modern Greek literature and culture, giving the course a breadth unmatched anywhere in the UK.

The course is interdisciplinary, and is open to students with no prior knowledge of ancient languages.

Key benefits:

• Study in one of the UK's largest and oldest departments of Classics. Classics has been taught on the Strand for over 200 years.
• Unrivalled location for the study of the ancient world thanks to London's unique range of specialist libraries, museums and galleries.
• Extraordinarily wide choice of modules, drawing on the resources of the whole of the University of London.
• King's graduates enjoy one of the best employment rates in the UK. King's was ranked fourth in the UK for graduate employability (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017).

Undergraduate degree with 2.1 honours in an appropriate subject, such as Classics, Classical Studies/Classical Civilisation, History, Archaeology, English Literature, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, or Theatre Studies, Religious Studies, Film Studies, Liberal Arts, Politics, Philosophy; although applications from candidates qualified in any Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences are welcome.

In order to meet the academic entry requirements for this programme you should have a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying you should be achieving an average of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Research Training & Dissertation in Classical Reception (60 Credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take this module in your second year, along with 40 credits of optional modules from the list below. In your first year, you will take 80 credits of optional modules.

Optional Modules:

In addition you are required to take three to six modules (totalling 120 credits) from a range of options that may typically include:

• Beginners' Ancient Greek for Research (40 Credits)
• Intermediate Ancient Greek for Research (40 Credits)
• Medieval Latin Literature (40 Credits)
• Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography (20 Credits)
• Homer (40 Credits)
• The Reception of Roman Comedy (20 Credits)
• Homeric Presences in Greek Poetry & Shorter Prose Since 1890 (20 Credits)
• Modern Greek Poetry and the Epic Tradition (20 Credits)
• Tacitus & Nero (40 Credits)
• Early Modern Latin Poetry I (20 Credits)
• Latin Epigraphy (40 Credits)
• Roman Britain (40 Credits)
• C.P. Cavafy: the Making of a Modernist (20 Credits)
• One God, One Sea: Byzantium & Islam, 600-800 (20 Credits)
• Persepolis (20 Credits)
• Classical Frontiers: Northern Black Sea in Antiquity (20 Credits)
• The City of Rome (British School at Rome Annual Postgraduate Course) (40 Credits)
• The Classical Art of the Body: Greek Sculpture & its Legacy (40 Credits)
• The Art of Making: Craft Production from Classical Antiquity to Today (40 Credits)
• Exhibiting Classical Antiquities (20 Credits)
• Living in Byzantium I: Material Culture & Built Environment in Late Antiquity (20 Credits)
• Living in Byzantium II: Material Culture and Built Environment in the Middle Ages (20 Credits)
• A language module from the King's Modern Language Centre (20 credits)

• Other master's modules offered by:

• UCL Department of Greek & Latin

• UCL Department of History
• UCL Institute of Archaeology
• RHUL Department of Classics
• RHUL Department of History

All subject to approvals.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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