SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR THE HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND ENGLISH

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For students commencing the Honour School on or before 1 October 2012

A

1. The Honour School of 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. The boards shall establish a joint committee consisting of three representatives of each faculty, of whom at least one on each side shall be a member of the respective faculty board, to advise them as necessary in respect of the examination and of Honour Moderations and of the Preliminary Examination in Classics and English.
2. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this school unless he has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.
3. Candidates who have been adjudged worthy of Honours or who have satisfied the moderators in Honour Moderations in Classics will not be permitted to enter their names for the examination.
4. The Chair of the Examiners for the Honour School of English Language and Literature shall designate such of the number of the examiners as may be required for the English subjects of the examination for the Honour School of 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 examiners as may be required for the Classics subjects of the examination. When these appointments shall have been made the number of examiners shall be deemed to be complete.

B

Candidates who have been adjudged worthy of Honours or have satisfied the examiners in Honour Moderations in Classics will not be permitted to offer the course.

With the exception of those taking Paper 4.(xxi), all candidates must take seven papers: A, two in English, B, two in Classics; and C, three linking both sides of the school. Candidates taking Paper 4. (xxi) must take two papers in English, two in Classics and two linking both sides of the School including Paper 5. Epic. Candidates may offer in addition either an eighth paper selected from papers 2 and 4 (subject to the groupings there set out and the restrictions there placed upon choice of subjects), or a thesis, provided that a candidate may not offer more than one option from either 2(d) or 2(e). Each paper will be of three hours' duration except where otherwise indicated. Candidates must not offer two or more options which are assessed by an extended essay written concurrently.

A. English

1. One of the following periods of English literature:
1. (a) English Literature from 1100-1509 (two papers) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 3]
2. (b) English Literature from 1509-1642 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 4]
3. (c) English Literature from 1642-1740 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 5]
4. (d) English Literature from 1740-1832 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 6]
5. (e) English Literature from 1832-1900 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 4(a)]
6. (f) English Literature from 1900 to the present day (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Paper 4(b)] Candidates who have passed the First Public Examination in English Language and Literature, or any subject and English, may not offer whichever of the periods 1832-1900 or 1900-present day they have already offered in that Examination.
2. One of the following as specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature:
1. (a) a second of the periods specified in 1 above;
2. (b) Shakespeare (Course I, Subject 2);
3. (c) The English Language (Course I, Subject 1);
4. (d) any of the Special Authors from the list for the year concerned which will be published in the University Gazette by the beginning of the fifth week of the Trinity Term two years before the examination (Course I, Subject 7) (extended essay);
5. (e) Special topics subjects (an extended essay unless otherwise specified) under the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Subject 8(a), (b) i. to vi., (c), (d), (e). Candidates may not offer Course I Papers 8(d) or 8(e) if they are offering this paper under Papers 1, or 2(a);
6. (f) The History of the English Language to c.1750 (Course II, A.5 (examined by portfolio submitted in the second year));
7. (g) English Literature, 600-1100 (Course II, A1);
8. (h) Old English Philology (Course II, B1);
9. (i) Middle English Dialectology (Course II, B2);
10. (j) Modern English Philology (Course II, B3);
11. (k) Linguistic Theory (Course II, B4);
12. (l) The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, seventh to ninth centuries AD (Course II, B10);
13. (m) Gothic (Course II, B11);
14. (n) Old Saxon (Course II, B12);
15. (o) Old High German (Course II, B13);
16. (p) Middle High German (Course II, B14);
17. (q) Old Norse (Course II, B15);
18. (r) Old Norse Texts (Course II, B16);
19. (s) Old French Language 1150-1250 (Course II, B18);
20. (t) Medieval French Literature 1100-1300 (Course II, B19) or Medieval French Literature 1300-1500 (Course II, B20);
21. (u) Medieval Welsh Language and Literature I (Course II, B21) or Medieval Welsh Language and Literature II (Course II, B22);
22. (v) Old and Early Middle Irish Language and Literature (Course II, B23);
23. (w) Medieval and Renaissance Romance (Course II, B7(a));
24. (x) Scottish Literature pre-1600 (Course II, B7(b));

provided that candidates who offer Shakespeare or Special Authors will not be permitted to answer in other papers questions on the authors chosen.

B. Classics

Any candidate whose native language is not English may bring a bilingual (native language to English) dictionary for use in any examination paper where candidates are required to translate Ancient Greek and/or Latin texts into English.

3. Either (a) Greek Literature of the Fifth Century BC (one paper of three hours (commentary and essay) with an additional paper (one-and-a-half hours) of translation) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.1(a)]. or (b) Latin Literature of the First Century BC (one paper of three hours (commentary and essay) with an additional paper (one-and-a-half hours) of translation) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.2(a)].
4. One of the following. Note: (a) Subject (xxi), Second Classical Language counts as two subjects; candidates offering it therefore need only offer two link papers from section C, one of which must be Paper 5. Epic. Note: (b) Each of the subjects (ii) Historiography, (iii) Lyric Poetry, and (vi) Comedy will be examined by an extended essay of up to 6,000 words and a one and a half hour translation paper, as specified in the Regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. Note: (c) It cannot be guaranteed that university lectures or classes or college teaching will be available on all subjects in every academic year. Candidates are advised to consult their tutors about the availability of teaching when selecting their subjects.
1. (i) Either (a) Greek Literature of the Fifth Century BC or (b) Latin Literature of the First Century BC (whichever is not offered under 3 above). Candidates taking 4 (xxi) Second Classical Language in Greek may if they wish offer Literae Humaniores Subject III.1(b) at this point; those offering Second Classical Language in Latin may offer Literae Humaniores subject III.2(b).
2. (ii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.3] Historiography
3. (iii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.4] Lyric Poetry
4. (iv) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.6] Greek Tragedy
5. (v) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.7] Comedy
6. (vi) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.8] Hellenistic Poetry
7. (vii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.9] Cicero
8. (viii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.10] Ovid
9. (ix) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.11] Latin Didactic
10. (x) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.12] Neronian Literature
11. (xi) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.13] Euripides, Orestes: papyri, manuscripts, text
12. (xii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.14] Either (a) Seneca, Agamemnon: manuscripts, text, interpretation or (b) Catullus: manuscripts, text, interpretation.
13. Note: University classes will be given for only one of these options each year.
14. (xiii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.15] One of the following:
  1. (a) The Conversion of Augustine
  2. (b) Byzantine Literature
  3. (c) Modern Greek Poetry
15. (xiv) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.16] Thesis in Literature
16. (xv) Greek Historical Linguistics [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.1]
17. (xvi) Latin Historical Linguistics [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.2]
18. (xvii) Comparative Philology: Indo-European, Greek and Latin [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.4]
19. (xviii) General Linguistics and Comparative Philology [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.3]. (Candidates offering section (a), General Linguistics, may not also offer the English subject Linguistic Theory.)
20. (xix) Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Any one of subjects 110 (Aquinas), 111 (Duns Scotus, Ockham), 115 (Plato, Republic, in translation), 116 (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in translation), 130 (Plato, Republic, in Greek), 131 (Plato, Theaetetus and Sophist) , 132 (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in Greek), 133 (Aristotle, Physics), 134 (Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism), 135 (Latin Philosophy), as specified in Regulations for Philosophy in all Honour Schools including Philosophy.
21. (xx) Either (a) The Early Greek World and Herodotus' Histories: 650 to 479 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 1] or (b) Thucydides and the Greek World: 479 to 403 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 2] or (c) The End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Philip II of Macedon: 403 to 336 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 3] or (d) Polybius, Rome and the Mediterranean: 241-146 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 4] or (e) Republic in Crisis: 146-46 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 5] or (f) Rome, Italy and Empire from Caesar to Claudius: 46 BC to AD 54 [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 6] or (g) Athenian Democracy in the Classical Age [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 7] or (h) Alexander the Great and his Early Successors [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 8] or (i) The Hellenistic World: Societies and Cultures c.300-100 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 9] or (j) Cicero: Politics and Thought in the Late Republic [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 10] or (k) Politics, Society and Culture from Nero to Hadrian [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 11] or (l) Religions in the Greek and Roman World, c.31 BC-AD 312 [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 12] or (m) Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 13]
Note: Candidates offering any of subjects (xx) (a)-(f) must also offer the associated translation paper set in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores.
1. (xxi) Second Classical Language As specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores (VI) Candidates who offer a Second Classical Language must offer either both subjects in Greek or both subjects in Latin, and may not offer either subject in the same language as that in which they satisfied the Moderators in Honour Moderations in Classics and English or the Preliminary Examination in Classics and English.

C. Link Papers

For Paper 5 Epic and Papers 6, 7 (a), (b), (c), and (d) Tragedy, Comedy, Satire, and Pastoral: Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the texts specified. Opportunities will, however, be given to show knowledge of authors and texts beyond those prescribed. Candidates must answer at least one question that relates Classical and English Literature.

5. Epic (one paper of three hours plus 15 minutes reading time)

With special reference to Homer, Virgil, Lucan, Milton, Dryden, Pope.

There will be a compulsory question requiring candidates to comment on and bring out points of comparison between either (a) a passage of Homer and one or more English translations or (b) a passage of Virgil and one or more English translations. The passages will be drawn from (a) Odyssey, Books 6 and 9-12, (b) Aeneid, Books 7, 8 and 12. There will also be a passage for compulsory comment from Milton, Paradise Lost.

6, 7. Two of the following papers of which at least one must be from (a), (b), (c), and (d). Course II candidates may not offer a paper which they have previously offered in their first year of study.

(a) Tragedy [Candidates who offer paper B. 4(iv) Greek Tragedy may not also offer this paper] With special reference to: Aeschylus, Agamemnon Sophocles, Oedipus the King Euripides, Medea, Hecuba Seneca, Medea, Thyestes Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great (Parts I and II), Edward II, Dr Faustus, Dido Queen of Carthage Shakespeare Jonson, Sejanus, Catiline Webster, The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi Middleton, The Changeling, Women Beware Women Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Milton, Samson Agonistes There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Aeschylus, Agamemnon, and Seneca, Medea
(b) Comedy [Candidates who offer paper B. 4 (v) Comedy may not also offer this paper] With special reference to: Aristophanes, Birds Menander, Dyscolus Plautus, Amphitryo and Menaechmi. Terence, Adelphoe Gascoigne, Supposes Lyly, Campaspe, Mother Bombie. Shakespeare Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair Wycherley, The Country Wife Vanbrugh, The Relapse Congreve, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World Sheridan, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Critic There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Aristophanes, Birds, and Terence, Adelphoe
(c) Satire With special reference to Horace, Satires, Book I, 1, 4-6, 9-10, and Book II, 1, 6; Persius 1 and 5; Juvenal 1, 3, 6, and 10; and the satires of Wyatt, Donne, Marston, Dryden, Johnson, Pope. There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Juvenal, Satires, 1, 3, 6, 10.
(d) Pastoral With special reference to Theocritus, Idylls, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11; Bion, Adonidis Epitaphium; [Moschus], Epitaphium Bionis; Virgil, Eclogues; Mantuan 1; Tasso, Aminta; Guarini, Il Pastor Fido; Spenser, Astrophel and The Shepheardes Calendar, Faerie Queen VI ix-xii; Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess; Milton, Lycidas and Epitaphium Damonis; Pope, Windsor Forest, Pastorals; Shelley, Adonais; Arnold, Thyrsis. There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Theocritus, Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, and Virgil, Eclogues.
(e) The Reception of Classical Literature in Poetry in English since 1900 Authors in English for study will include Auden, H. D., Eliot, Frost, Longley, Lowell, MacNeice, Carson, Harrison, Heaney, Hughes and Walcott. This paper will be examined only by extended essay of up to 6,000 words. Essay topics set by the examiners will be released on Monday of Week 6 of Hilary Term and essays should be submitted by Monday of Week 10 of the same term (12 noon) to the Examination Schools. Candidates will be required to use at least three authors in their essays, at least one of which must be a classical author. This subject may NOT be combined with any of the specified Special Topics subjects in English (paper A.2(e)). Candidates must avoid repetition in this paper of material used in Paper 2(d).

Thesis

1. Any candidate who does not offer an eighth paper may offer a thesis, subject to the following provisions:
(i) The subject of an optional thesis must be substantially connected with any subject area currently available in those parts of the Honour School of Literae Humaniores and Course I or Course II of the Honour School of English Language and Literature which are available to candidates for the Honour School.
(ii) The subject of the thesis may, but need not, overlap any subject or period on which the candidates offer papers. But candidates are warned that they must avoid repetition in their papers of material used in their theses, and that they will not be given credit for material extensively repeated.
(iii) Candidates proposing to offer a thesis must submit, through their college, to the Chair of the Joint Standing Committee for Classics and English (care of the English Faculty Office), the title of the proposed thesis, together with (a) a synopsis of the subject in about 100 words; and (b) a letter of support from a tutor, between Monday of the second week of the Trinity Term of the year preceding that in which the examination is held and Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
(iv) The Chair of the Joint Standing Committee for Classics and English will decide as soon as possible, and in every case by the end of the fifth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination, whether or not to approve the title, and will advise candidates of its decision forthwith.
(v) Candidates must give notice of withdrawal of submission of a thesis to the chair of examiners not later than the end of the eighth week of the Hilary Full Term preceding the examination.
2. Every thesis must be the candidate's own work. Tutors may, however, advise on the choice and scope of the subject, provide a reading list, and read and comment on a first draft. Candidates must sign a certificate stating that the thesis is their own work, and that the candidate has read the Joint School guidelines on plagiarism. This certificate must be placed in a sealed envelope bearing the candidate's examination number and presented together with the thesis.
3. No thesis will be accepted if it has already been submitted, wholly or substantially, for a degree of this or any other university; and the certificate must also contain confirmation that the thesis has not already been so submitted.
4. No thesis shall be ineligible because it has been submitted, in whole or in part, for any scholarship or prize of this University advertised in the University Gazette.
5. The thesis shall not exceed 6,000 words in length. In the case of a commentary on a text, and at the discretion of the chair of the examiners, any substantial quoting of that text need not be included in the word limit. Where appropriate, there must be a select bibliography and a list of sources.
6. Any candidate proposing to submit a thesis shall give notice of this to the Registrar on the examination entry form not later than Friday of the fourth week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination (this in addition to seeking approval for the thesis as stipulated in clause I (iii) above). Two copies of the thesis itself, identified by the candidate's examination number only, must be sent, not later than noon on the first Monday of the Trinity Full Term in which the examination will be held, to the Chair of the Examiners, Honour School of Classics and English, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford.

Texts of Greek and Latin authors

Passages from Aristophanes, Birds will be set from the edition of N. Dunbar (Oxford, Student Edition). Passages from Terence, Adelphoe will be set from the edition of R. H. Martin (Cambridge University Press). The texts of other Greek and Latin authors used in the examination will be as prescribed by the regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores.

SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR THE HONOUR SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND ENGLISH

For students commencing the Honour School on or after 1 October 2013

A

1. The Honour School of 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. The boards shall establish a joint committee consisting of three representatives of each faculty, of whom at least one on each side shall be a member of the respective faculty board, to advise them as necessary in respect of the examination and of the First Public Examination in Classics and English.
2. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this school unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.
3. No candidate shall be permitted to enter his or her name for the examination who has been adjudged worthy of Honours in Honour Moderations in Classics, or who has there satisfied the Moderators.
4. The Chair of Examiners for the Honour School of English Language and Literature shall designate such of the number of the examiners as may be required for the English subjects of the examination for the Honour School of 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 examiners as may be required for the Classics subjects of the examination. When these appointments have been made the number of examiners shall be deemed to be complete.

B

All candidates must take seven subjects. All candidates not taking subject 4(xx), Second Classical Language, must offer A, two subjects in English, B, two subjects in Classics, C, two subjects linking both sides of the school, and D, a dissertation. The dissertation may be concentrated on English or on Classics, or may link both sides of the school.

Candidates who under B take 3 (a) or (b) (Greek or Latin Core) and 4(xx) (Second Classical Language) will under C take only one subject, either subject 5 or one of the subjects under 6. The subjects will be examined by written examinations of three hours’ duration, unless otherwise specified.

The texts of Greek and Latin works used in the examination will be as specified each year in the Handbook for the Honour School of Classics and English.

A: ENGLISH

1. One of the following periods of English literature:
1. (a) Literature in English 1350 – 1550 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Subject 2]
2. (b) Literature in English 1660 – 1760 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Subject 4]
3. (c) Literature in English 1760 – 1830 (one paper) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I Subject 5]
2. One of the following as specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature:
1. (a) a second of the periods specified in 1 above;
2. (b) Shakespeare (portfolio) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I, Subject 1];
3. (c) The Material Text (portfolio) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course II, Subject 5(a)];
4. (d) any of the Special Options subjects from the list for the year concerned, which will be published by the English Faculty Office in the year preceding the examination (extended essay) [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course I, Subject 6];
5. (e) any of the Special Options subjects for English Course II, Medieval Literature and Language, from the list for the year concerned [As specified for the Honour School of English Language and Literature Course II, Subject 6];
provided that candidates who offer (b), (c), (d) and (e) avoid duplicating, in their answers to one paper, material that they have already used in answering another paper.

B: CLASSICS

3. Either (a) Greek Literature of the Fifth Century BC (one paper of three hours (commentary and essay) with an additional paper (one-and-a-half hours) of translation) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.1(a)]. or (b) Latin Literature of the First Century BC (one paper of three hours (commentary and essay) with an additional paper (one-and-a-half hours) of translation) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.2(a)].
4. One of the following. Note: (a) Subject (xxi), Second Classical Language, counts as two subjects; hence candidates offering it should offer only one subject under section C. Note: (b) Each of the subjects (ii) Historiography, (iii) Lyric Poetry, and (vi) Comedy will be examined by an extended essay of 5,000–6,000 words and a one-and-a-half-hour translation paper, as specified in the Regulations for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores. Note: (c) It cannot be guaranteed that university lectures or classes or college teaching will be available on all subjects in every academic year. Candidates are advised to consult their tutors about the availability of teaching when selecting their subjects.
1. (i) Either (a) Greek Literature of the Fifth Century BC or (b) Latin Literature of the First Century BC (whichever is not offered under 3 above).
2. (ii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.3] Historiography
3. (iii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.4] Lyric Poetry
4. (iv) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.6] Greek Tragedy
5. (v) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.7] Comedy
6. (vi) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.8] Hellenistic Poetry
7. (vii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.9] Cicero
8. (viii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.10] Ovid
9. (ix) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.11] Latin Didactic
10. (x) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.12] Neronian Literature
11. (xi) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.13] Euripides, Orestes: papyri, manuscripts, text
12. (xii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.14] Either (a) Seneca, Agamemnon: manuscripts, text, interpretation or (b) Catullus: manuscripts, text, interpretation. Note: University classes will be given for only one of these options each year.
13. (xiii) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.15] One of the following:
  1. (a) The Conversion of Augustine
  2. (b) Byzantine Literature
  3. (c) Modern Greek Poetry
14. (xiv) [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject III.16] Thesis in Literature
15. (xv) Greek Historical Linguistics [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.1]
16. (xvi) Latin Historical Linguistics [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.2]
17. (xvii) Comparative Philology: Indo-European, Greek and Latin [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.4]
18. (xviii) General Linguistics and Comparative Philology [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject V.3].
19. (xix) Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. Any one of subjects 110 (Aquinas), 111 (Duns Scotus, Ockham), 115 (Plato, Republic, in translation), 116 (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in translation), 130 (Plato, Republic, in Greek), 131 (Plato, Theaetetus and Sophist), 132 (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, in Greek), 133 (Aristotle, Physics), 134 (Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism), 135 (Latin Philosophy), as specified in Regulations for Philosophy in all Honour Schools including Philosophy.
20. (xx) Either (a) The Early Greek World and Herodotus' Histories: 650 to 479 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 1] or (b) Thucydides and the Greek World: 479 to 403 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 2] or (c) The End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Philip II of Macedon: 403 to 336 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 3] or (d) Polybius, Rome and the Mediterranean: 241-146 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 4] or (e) Republic in Crisis: 146-46 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 5] or (f) Rome, Italy and Empire from Caesar to Claudius: 46 BC to AD 54 [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 6] or (g) Athenian Democracy in the Classical Age [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 7] or (h) Alexander the Great and his Early Successors [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 8] or (i) The Hellenistic World: Societies and Cultures c.300-100 BC [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 9] or (j) Cicero: Politics and Thought in the Late Republic [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 10 ; may not be combined with (vii) Cicero above] or (k) Politics, Society and Culture from Nero to Hadrian [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 11] or (l) Religions in the Greek and Roman World, c.31 BC-AD 312 [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 12] or (m) Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome [Honour School of Literae Humaniores, subject I. 13]
Note: Candidates offering any of subjects (xix) (a)-(f) must also offer the associated translation paper set in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores.
(xxi) Second Classical Language. As specified for the Honour School of Literae Humaniores (VI). Candidates who offer a Second Classical Language must offer either both subjects in Greek or both subjects in Latin, and may not offer either subject in a language in which they satisfied the Moderators in Honour Moderations in Classics and English or the Preliminary Examination in Classics and English.

C. LINK PAPERS

For Paper 5 Epic and Paper 6 (a) Tragedy and (b) Comedy: while candidates will be expected to be familiar with the texts specified, opportunities will be given to show knowledge of authors and texts beyond those prescribed. Candidates must answer at least one question that relates Classical and English Literature.

5. Epic (one paper of three hours plus 15 minutes’ reading time) With special reference to Homer, Virgil, Lucan, Milton, Dryden, Pope. There will be a compulsory question requiring candidates to comment on and bring out points of comparison between either (a) a passage of Homer and one or more English translations or (b) a passage of Virgil and one or more English translations. The passages will be drawn from (a) Odyssey, Books 6 and 9-12, (b) Aeneid, Books 7, 8 and 12. There will also be a passage for compulsory comment from Milton, Paradise Lost.
6. One of the following:
1. (a) Tragedy [Candidates who offer paper B. 4 (iv) Greek Tragedy may not also offer this paper]. With special reference to: Aeschylus, Agamemnon. Sophocles, Oedipus the King. Euripides, Medea, Hecuba. Seneca, Medea, Thyestes. Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy. Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great (Parts I and II). Edward II, Dr Faustus, Dido Queen of Carthage. Shakespeare. Jonson, Sejanus, Catiline. Webster, The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi. Middleton, The Changeling, Women Beware Women. Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Milton, Samson Agonistes.
2. There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Aeschylus, Agamemnon, and Seneca, Medea.
3. (b) Comedy [Candidates who offer paper B. 4 (v) Comedy may not also offer this paper]. With special reference to: Aristophanes, Birds. Menander, Dyscolus. Plautus, Amphitryo and Menaechmi. Terence, Adelphoe. Gascoigne, Supposes. Lyly, Campaspe, Mother Bombie. Shakespeare. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair. Wycherley, The Country Wife. Vanbrugh, The Relapse. Congreve, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World. Sheridan, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Critic. There will be an optional commentary question with passages drawn from Aristophanes, Birds, and Terence, Adelphoe.
4. (c) The Reception of Classical Literature in Poetry in English since 1900 Authors in English for study will include Auden, H. D., Eliot, Frost, Longley, Lowell, MacNeice, Carson, Harrison, Heaney, Hughes and Walcott. This paper will be examined by an extended essay of 5,000-6,000 words. Essay topics set by the examiners will be released on Monday of Week 6 of Hilary Term and essays should be submitted by Monday of Week 10 of the same term (12 noon) to the Examination Schools, High Street. Candidates will be required to use at least three authors in their essays, at least one of whom must be a classical author. This subject may NOT be combined with options in Classics examined by extended essay (4 (ii), (iii), (v)). Candidates must avoid repetition in this paper of material used in Paper 2(d).

D: DISSERTATION

1. All candidates for the Honour School of Classics and English must offer a dissertation.
1. (i) The subject of the dissertation must be substantially connected with any subject area in those parts of the Honour School of Literae Humaniores and Course I or Course II of the Honour School of English Language and Literature which are available to candidates for the Honour School of Classics and English. The subject may, but need not, be one that connects the two sides of the School.
2. (ii) The subject of the dissertation may, but need not, overlap any subject or period on which the candidate offers papers. Candidates are warned, however, that they must avoid repetition in their papers of materials used in their dissertation, and that they will not be given credit for material extensively repeated.
3. (iii) Candidates must submit a dissertation abstract of no more than 100 words, to the Chair of Examiners in Classics and English, care of the English Faculty Office, by Friday of the fourth week of the Michaelmas term preceding the examination.
4. (iv) The Chair of Examiners in Classics and English will decide as soon as possible, and in every case by the end of the sixth week of the Michaelmas Term preceding the examination, whether or not to approve the abstract, and will advise candidates of the decision forthwith.
2. Every dissertation must be the candidate’s own work. Tutors may, however, advise on the choice and scope of the subject, provide a reading list, and read and comment on a first draft. Candidates must sign a certificate stating that the dissertation is their own work, and that they have read the Joint School guidelines on plagiarism (see also 3 below). This certificate must be placed in a sealed envelope bearing the candidate’s examination number and presented together with the dissertation.
3. Dissertations previously submitted for the Honour School of Classics and English may be re-submitted. No dissertation will be accepted if it has already been submitted, wholly or substantially, for any other degree of this or any other university; and the certificate must also contain confirmation that the dissertation has not already been so submitted.
4. No dissertation shall be ineligible because it has been submitted, in whole or in part, for any scholarship or prize of this University advertised in the University Gazette.
5. The dissertation shall be of 7,000-8,000 words; failure to keep to these limits is liable to be penalized. In the case of a commentary on a text, and at the discretion of the chair of the examiners, any substantial quoting of that text need not be included in the word-count. There must be a select bibliography and, if appropriate, list of sources.
6. Two typed copies of the dissertation must be delivered to the Chair of Examiners, Honour School of Classics and English, Examination Schools, High Street, by noon on Thursday of the eighth week of Hilary Term preceding the examination.