Your compulsory modules will provide you with a wide-ranging and inclusive introduction to antiquity in a broad global context. You'll gain:

• broad overviews of Greek and Roman history, which will serve as a foundation for the rest of your degree
• knowledge and understanding of significant historical issues from a more global perspective. We'll focus on recurrent themes or topics across a diversity of regions and cultures

You'll then choose three optional modules. These may include ancient language (Greek or Latin), literature (in translation), philosophy, art or archaeology modules.

Compulsory modules will expand your knowledge of historical developments across the Greek and Roman worlds.

They will introduce you to the Hellenistic period in Greek history, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, when great kingdoms, many headed by Greek rulers, competed for power in the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia.

You will also learn about the mature Roman Empire: the many ways in which it changed over the centuries until its ultimate demise or transformation.

Optional modules will provide you with the opportunity to further your study of aspects of Greek and Roman culture and language, learn about ancient institutions like religion and slavery, or explore neighbouring periods like the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages.

A focus of this year will be developing your research and problem-solving skills through:

• critical study
• guided research
• writing of commentaries on historical texts and artefacts

You’ll have access to an even wider range of optional modules to select from, covering topics such as:

• mobility and identity in the Greek Mediterranean
• religion in Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia
• Hellenistic kingship
• the fall of the Roman Republic
• the Late Roman Empire
• Rome and her enemies
• society, culture and economy of Roman Egypt
• representations of the ancient world in cinema