Ancient History

King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that any particular optional course will run in a given year and the options listed below are subject to change.

Compulsory modules:

• Introduction to Ancient History (c. 1200 BC-AD 600)
• Greek or Latin language

Choice of optional modules including:

• Art & Archaeology of Greece & Rome
• Greek & Latin Literature: An Introduction
• Working with Greek & Latin Literary Texts: An Introduction

Full module descriptions can be found on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx

Second year students choose four to six modules from a range of optional modules, which would include options such as:

• Writing History; Greek History down to 322BC
• Roman History down to 31BC
• History of the Roman Empire 31BC-AD400
• Roman Britain
• Constantinople: Imperial Capital - Medieval Metropolis
• The Byzantine Empire, 600-1453
• Museums of London
• Building Greece & Rome
• Views of Antiquity

Full module descriptions can be found on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx

All final year students are required to research and write a dissertation on an ancient historical subject and take three or four optional modules, which would include options such as:

• Dissertation on an ancient historical subject
• Augustus: Power & Propaganda
• Alexander the Great
• The Hellenistic Near East
• The History & Theory of Ancient Slavery
• Persia & the Achaemenid Empire
• Greek Religion
• Medicine & Society in the Ancient World
• Bronze Age Crete & Cyprus

Full module descriptions can be found on our website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/modules/index.aspx