MPhil Classics and Ancient History

Newcastle University

MPhil Classics and Ancient History

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 12 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Post-Graduate
  • Education Required Graduate
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 3.3
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
Free GBP 18,600

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2022-12-07
2023-01-10

Program Description

Classics and ancient history at Newcastle has a long and distinguished international reputation. We deliver quality research and teaching. We have taught Latin and Greek since 1874, ancient history since 1910 and classical archaeology since 1931.Our programmes cover a range of classical subjects. They include:
  • material culture and history
  • language and literature
  • philosophy
  • history of science and medicine
We have strong links with related disciplines such as history, archaeology and modern languages.Our staff include scholars of outstanding international reputation. Our research covers all major aspects of the study of the ancient world.
Classics and Ancient History PhD and MPhil supervision is usually available in:

Ancient history and classical archaeology

  • Archaeology of religion and ritual from the Bronze Age to the early Classical era
  • Greco–Roman religion
  • Greek ethnography
  • Late Classical and Hellenistic periods: Alexander the Great and Hellenistic empires; kingship and royal ideology
  • Contact and interaction between Greeks and non-Greeks
  • The history and archaeology of pre-Roman and Roman Italy
  • The late Roman Republic
  • Institutions of the Roman world
  • The social, economic and cultural history of the Roman Empire
  • Roman Greece
  • Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
  • The era of the tetrarchy and Constantine
  • Pagan-Christian relations
  • Late Roman/early mediaeval legal history
  • Slavery in the ancient world
  • Greek art and archaeology

Classical language and literature

  • Greek poetry from Homer to the imperial age
  • ‘Presocratic’ and ‘Hippocratic’ writers
  • Greek tragedy, including its reception
  • Ancient didactic poetry
  • Second Sophistic
  • Ancient linguistic thought, especially etymology
  • Greek influence on later literature
  • Greek and Roman music, including harmonic theory; instruments and their place in the development of Greek musical science; music and Graeco-Roman society; the representation of musical instruments.
  • Greek and Roman oratory and rhetoric
  • Cicero: rhetoric, philosophy, politics
  • Latin poetry
  • Literature and religion in Latin epic
  • Time in ancient literature
  • Flavian literature and culture
  • Ancient historiography
  • History of Classical Scholarship
  • Reception of the ancient world

Philosophy and science

  • Ancient philosophy, particularly epistemology and ethics,
  • The exact sciences in Greek and Roman antiquity
  • The history of Greek and Roman medicine
  • Hippocratic medicine and the history of its reception up until the 20th century