Greek Tradition

The MA Greek Tradition is taught as a one-year full-time programme or a two year part-time programme. Students take two compulsory modules, choose from a range of optional taught modules and write a dissertation.

Compulsory modules

• 7AABM111 Perceptions of the Past
• 7AABM112 Poetic geography: landmarks of the nation in the modern Greek poetic tradition, 1821-1940

Optional modules
Typical optional modules are listed below. Please note: it cannot be guaranteed that all modules are offered in any particular academic year.

Language & linguistics

• 7AACM005 Beginners' ancient Greek for research
• 7AACM015 Intermediate ancient Greek for research
• 7AABMA10 Advanced Modern Greek
• 7AABMA17 Language, identity and culture
• 7AABMA15 Linguistic analysis of Modern Greek narrative
• Postgraduate Modern Greek (taught at King's Modern Language Centre)

Literature & thought

• 7AAN4036 Greek Philosophy: Plato & Aristotle
• 7AABMA26 The Greek Novel and its Influence (1st to 21st c.)
• 7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry
• 7AABMA23 Cavafy Reader and Read
• 7AABMA24 Greek Modernism and the epic tradition (1900-1960)
• 7AABMA27 Greek literature and the modern city (1930-2000)
• 7AABMA20 Practical Criticism

History & material culture

• 7AACM730 Greek Epigraphy
• 7AACM420 Greek Religion: Myth & Meaning
• 7AACM421 Greek Religion: Culture & Cognition
• 7AACK410 Territory and Identity in Ancient Greece
• 7AACK806 Pausanias and the Archaeology of Greece
• 7AABMB10 Living in Byzantium: Material culture and built environment (c.AD300-1500)
• 7AACK814 Ancient Cyprus: Colonizations, Copper and City-kingdom
• 7AACK818 Ancient mosaics: making and meaning
• 7AACM830 Greek Pottery & Painting 800 – 300 BC
• 6AACAR02 Greek Sculpture 750-300 BC
• 7AABMB11 Cyprus from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: A Byzantine island through the ages
• 7AABMB12 One God, One Sea: Byzantium and Islam, 600-800
• 7AABMB13 Byzantium and the West, A. D. 800-1000

Core and optional taught modules examined by coursework and/or examination, plus a dissertation. All teaching is carried out in small groups, with an important emphasis laid on discussion and the exchange of ideas. For most taught modules you will be expected to give at least one oral presentation of a paper.