Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:
* translate the text with confidence and accuracy;
* evaluate modern interpretations of the text;
* answer questions on specific points in the text;
* construct a relevant and analytical essay on the text.

Indicative Module Content:

We will read and discuss a section of the text in each class.

Student Effort Type	Hours
Lectures	18
Specified Learning Activities	54
Autonomous Student Learning	28
Total	100

Learning Requirements:

Students taking this module should have at least one year's experience of reading unadapted Greek texts

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  

Description	Timing		Component Scale		% of Final Grade
Exam (In-person): 50-minute class test (translation and comment)		n/a	Graded	No	35
Assignment(Including Essay): 1,500-word essay		n/a	Graded	No	30

 

Resit In	Terminal Exam
Autumn	No

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

Students will receive detailed individual feedback on all their assignments.

Prescribed Text

Christopher Pelling (ed.), Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War Book VI (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Secondary Literature

Balot, R., S. Forsdyke, & E. Foster (eds), The Oxford Handbook to Thucydides (Oxford, 2017)
Hornblower, S. (ed.), Greek Historiography (Oxford, 1994)
Hunter, V.J., Thucydides: The Artful Reporter (Toronto, 1973)
Low, P. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides (Cambridge, 2023)
Macleod, C.W., ‘Reason and history (Thucydides 6.16–18)’, in Collected Essays (Oxford, 1983), 68–87
Marincola, J. (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Malden,2007)
Pelling, C., Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (London, 2000)
Rengakos, A. & A. Tsakmakis, Brill’s Companion to Thucydides (Leiden, 2006)
Rood, T., Thucydides: Narrative and Interpretation (Oxford, 1998)
Rusten, J.S. (ed.), Oxford Readings in Thucydides (Oxford, 2009)