Course summary

The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2023). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas. MSt The MSt in Classical Archaeology is designed for those who wish to build on undergraduate studies in classical archaeology, as well as for those with experience in other areas of classical studies wishing to develop an understanding of the material culture. The MSt provides the flexibility to allow you to choose from a wide range of periods which provide broad overviews, and detailed options focusing on different specific aspects of the subject. You will choose one period module. A list of typical period modules is provided below. Not all modules run every year.

• Early Iron Age Greece, 1200-700 BC

• Archaic, 800-480 BC

• Classical, 500-300 BC

• Hellenistic, 330-30 BC

• Late Republican, 200-30 BC

• Early Imperial, 30 BC-AD 120

• Middle Imperial, AD 70-250

• Late Antiquity, AD 280-650

• Byzantine, AD 600-1453

• Topics in Aegean Prehistory

• Roman Architecture

• Greek Coinage

• Greek Sculpture

• Greek and Roman Landscape Archaeology

• Roman Provincial Art

• Late Roman and Byzantine architecture

• The Archaeology of Greek Religion

• Historical Narrative in Art

• Aegean Bronze Age Trade OR Religion

• Burials, settlements, and society in Iron Age Greece, 1200-650 BC

• Greek Vases

• Greek and Roman wallpaintings

• Etruscan Italy

• Hellenistic Far East

• Gandharan Art and the Classical World

• Pompeii and Ostia

• Roman Coinage

• Archaeology of the Roman Economy

• Maritime Archaeology

• Lived Religion in Late Antiquity