The individual specifications and prescribed texts for Intermediate Ancient Greek and Intermediate Latin are given below. The mark on this paper replaces what would otherwise be the candidate’s lowest mark.
There are three routes to these papers:
- Those who have taken a Beginning paper in Prelims may take the corresponding Intermediate course in the second year.
- Those who wish to take up a new ancient language in Schools may take the Beginning course (as specified for Prelims) in the second year, and then the Intermediate Course in the third year; those taking a Beginning Course are expected to attend a Summer School in the summer before starting the Course (for details see http://www.jact.org/events/summerschools.htm). Financial support is often available to help with the cost of these courses.
- Those with the appropriate prior qualification may take simply the Intermediate course.
Intermediate Ancient Greek
(This subject is not available to candidates with a qualification in ancient Greek above AS-level or equivalent)
Candidates will be required to show an intermediate level knowledge of Greek grammar and vocabulary (including all syntax and morphology, as laid out in Abbot and Mansfield, Primer of Greek Accidence).
The set texts for the course are: Xenophon, Hellenica I-II.3.10 (Oxford Classical Text) and Lysias I (Oxford Classical Text). The paper will consist of a passage of unseen prose translation, three further passages for translation from the two prescribed texts, and grammatical questions on the prescribed texts.
Useful editions with commentaries:
Xenophon, Hellenika I.II.3.10, ed. P. Krentz (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1989);
Lysias: Selected Speeches, ed. C. Carey (Cambridge: CUP, 1989).
Intermediate Latin
(This subject is not available to candidates with a qualification in Latin above AS-level or equivalent)
Candidates will be required to show an intermediate level knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary (including all syntax and morphology, as laid out in Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer).
The set texts for the course are: Cicero, letters in D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge, 1980), nos 9, 17, 23, 27, 39, 42-3, 45, 48, 52, 58, 63-4, 70-1, 79; Tacitus, Agricola (Oxford Classical Text); Pliny, letters in A. N. Sherwin-White, Fifty Letters of Pliny, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1969), nos 1-3, 6-7, 9, 15-20, 25, 27, 29, 33-4, 36, 38-40, 47-8.
The paper will consist of a passage of unseen prose translation, three further passages for translation from the prescribed texts, and grammatical questions on the prescribed texts.
Useful editions with commentaries:
Cicero: Select Letters, ed. D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Cambridge: CUP, 1980);
Cornelii Taciti, De Vita Agricolae, eds R. M. Ogilvie and I. Richmond (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967);
Fifty Letters of Pliny, ed. A. N. Sherwin-White, 2nd edn (Oxford: OUP, 1969).
These courses will be taught by Faculty classes, for three hours per week during Michaelmas and Hilary Terms.
