Course summary

The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2024). 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 You will then take two further option modules which will enable you to develop a deeper understanding of a particular field of research. A list of typical option subjects is provided below and more information is available on the school’s website (See Further information and enquiries). Not all modules listed will be available every year.

• 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