Classics

(a) Its main objective is to provide specialised knowledge on the language, literature and other written monuments of the Greek and Roman world.

(b) The above aim is accompanied by a parallel concern for the cultivation of a broad knowledge of various aspects of the classical world. This is more specifically achieved through courses of historical linguistics, ancient history, archaeology and ancient philosophy.

(c) An additional objective is to provide students with a good knowledge of the Greek language and literature of the Byzantine and Modern Greek era.

(d) A parallel aim is the acquaintance with the history, the methods and practices of classical scholarship.

(e) The language of instruction is Greek, but the programme also trains students in at least one modern foreign language. Consequently, students are able to use bibliography other than Greek and to undertake, if they wish, postgraduate studies abroad or profit from the Erasmus programme.

(f) The programme encourages an interdisciplinary perspective and students’ freedom to choose what they want to learn, since it includes three free electives that must be chosen from outside the Department of Classics and Philosophy and from at least two different Faculties of the University.

(g) The programme also trains students in the use of the rich digital resources of Classical Studies (such as databases, electronic dictionaries, digital libraries of ancient writers, digitized manuscripts etc.).

Key Learning Outcomes

(a) Students will have an excellent command of ancient Greek and Latin.

(b) They will become acquainted with a large corpus of ancient Greek and Latin texts from the main literary genres and will have an overview of the historical development of ancient Greek and Latin literature.

(c) They will be able to analyse classical texts using modern and more traditional methods-they will know about the historical development of Classical Scholarship.

(d) They will obtain basic knowledge of the thought, the civilization and the history of the ancient world.

(e) They will become familiar with the reception of the classical world in Cyprus, Greece and the contemporary world.

(f) They will become acquainted with the main reference works of the discipline, printed and electronic, in order to cope with particular philological problems.

(a) to analyse primary sources within their historical context and treat them with a critical mind.

(b) to make associations between different fields, given the interdisciplinary orientation of the programme (it includes philosophy, history, literature, language courses).

(c) to identify the political aspect inherent in all the phenomena of social life.

(d) to understand societies different from ours and to study them in their own contexts.

(e) to analyse and critically assess the uses of the classical past in contemporary discourses in Cyprus and Greece.

(f) to develop translation skills.

(g) to construct logical arguments and evaluate others’ arguments.

(h) to produce well-structured, persuasive and well-argued oral and written texts.