16.7 2nd and 3rd year Bernard Muir. First semester One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have read a representative range of Classical literature (representing epic, mythology, elegy, pastoral, satire, theology, literary theory);
• will have studied several books of the Bible and been introduced to various schools of interpretation (from Patristic to modern times);
• will have investigated the many ways in which Classical and Biblical writings have influenced Western thought and literature over the past two millennia;
• will have investigated historical moments which rejected the tradition;
• will have been introduced to translation theory and semiotics.

This subject reads a range of Classical and Christian works to establish how and why they have been so influential in Western literature and thought. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Aristotle Horace Longinus Classical Literary Criticism Penguin Augustine On Christian Doctrine, Confessions Penguin The Bible (with Apocrypha) OUP/CUP Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy Bobbs-Merrill or Penguin The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Homer Odyssey Oxford Hooke S E ed. Middle Eastern Mythology Pelican Horace and Persius Satires Penguin Juvenal Satires Penguin Ovid Metamorphoses Penguin Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus Norton Virgil Eclogues and Georgics Oxford Virgil Aeneid Oxford 16.7 Bernard Muir. First semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will have read a representative range of Classical literature (representing epic, mythology, elegy, pastoral, satire, theology, literary theory);
• will have studied several books of the Bible and been introduced to various schools of interpretation (from Patristic to modern times);
• will have investigated the many ways in which Classical and Biblical writings have influenced Western thought and literature over the past two millennia;
• will have investigated historical moments which rejected the tradition; and
• will have been introduced to translation theory and semiotics.

This subject reads a range of Classical and Christian works to establish how and why they have been so influential in Western literature and thought. Written work of not more than 5,000 words. Aristotle Horace Longinus Classical Literary Criticism Penguin Augustine On Christian Doctrine, Confessions Penguin The Bible (with Apocrypha) OUP/CUP Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy Bobbs-Merrill or Penguin The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Homer Odyssey Oxford Hooke S E ed. Middle Eastern Mythology Pelican Horace and Persius Satires Penguin Juvenal Satires Penguin Ovid Metamorphoses Penguin Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus Norton Virgil Eclogues and Georgics Oxford Virgil Aeneid Oxford