Special Regulations for the Honour Moderations in Classics and English

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1. 1. Honour Moderations in Classics and English shall be under the joint supervision of the Boards of the Faculties of Classics and English Language and Literature and shall consist of such subjects as they shall jointly by regulation prescribe.
2. 2. The Chairman of the Moderators in English Language and Literature shall designate such of the number of moderators as may be required for the English subjects of the examination for Honour Moderations in Classics and English, and the nominating committee for examiners appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Classics shall nominate such of the number of moderators as may be required for the Classics subjects of the examination. When these appointments shall have been made the number of moderators shall be deemed to be complete.

B

The committee appointed by the Boards of the Faculties of English Language and Literature and Classics to advise on the examination for the Honour School of Classics and English shall make proposals to the two boards for regulations for this examination.

Candidates shall take one of the following courses

1. 1. Course I Each candidate shall offer six papers, each of three hours' duration, as follows:
   1. 1. English Literature 1509-1600 (excluding the plays of Shakespeare).
   2. 2. English Literature 1600-1660 (excluding the plays of Shakespeare).
   3. 3. Critical commentary: passages for comment for the period 1509-1660 (a preliminary 15 minutes' reading time will be allowed for this paper).
   4. 4. Unseen translation from Greek and Latin. Candidates may offer either Latin or Greek or both. Two passages must be offered and in each language one prose passage and one verse passage will be set.
   5. 5, 6. Greek and Latin Literature. Candidates must offer two of the following. They must offer either (a) or (b), but may not offer both.
   6. (a) Homer, Iliad I, VI, IX, XVI, XVIII, XXII-XXIV;*
   7. (b) Virgil, Aeneid I, II, IV, VI;*
   8. (c) Euripides, Bacchae 1–1167; Aristophanes, Frogs 1–459, 830–1533; Herodotus 7.1–53; 8.56–110**;
   9. (d) Cicero, Pro Caelio 17–53 (… dedisti.); Catullus 1–16, 31–7, 42–5, 48–51, 53, 69–70, 75–6, 79, 83–6, 95, 99–101, 116; Propertius I.1–3, 6, 11, 14; Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis 26.7–36, 47–78; Juvenal 3, 5.***
   Both papers will relate to all the texts. Paper 5 will consist of essay questions and paper 6 will comprise passages for translation and comment. The Moderators shall publish the names of candidates who have satisfied them in all six papers or all of papers 1, 2, and 3 or all of papers 4, 5, and 6. N.B. For prescribed editions, see the Classics and English handbook.
2. 2. Course II Candidates for Course II shall be required:
   1. (a) during their first year of study to have passed an examination under the auspices of the Board of the Faculty of Classics during the Trinity Term. This examination is also available for appropriate candidates intending to offer papers in the Preliminary Examination for Modern Languages in their second year of study. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners shall be permitted to offer themselves for re-examination during the following September. Each candidate shall offer two papers, each of three hours' duration, as follows:
   2. (1) Greek or Latin texts. Candidates must offer either (a) or (b):
   3. (a) Homer, Iliad 24; Lysias 1 and 3; Euripides, Bacchae 1-63, 180-369, 434-518.
   4. (b) Virgil, Aeneid 6; Seneca, Epistles 54, 57, 79, 114 and 122; Catullus 1-16, 31-4.
   5. For a list of prescribed texts, see the Classics and English handbook.
   6. The paper will comprise passages from these texts for translation and comment.
   7. 2. Greek or Latin Language. The paper will consist of passages for unseen translation out of Greek or Latin and sentences for translation from English into Latin or Greek.
   8. (b) during their second year of study, to offer papers as for Course I.