Classics/Politics

University of Glasgow · Glasgow

Qualification

Degree

Length

4 yrs

UK fees / yr

£9,535

Study

Full-time

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About this course

Clarity helps us to understand our users’ behaviour by visually representing their clicks, taps and scrolling. All data is anonymised. Classics involves the study of the literature, history, art and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome.

Study of Latin and/or Greek language is possible at any level. You will have the opportunity to visit archaeological sites and museums in Italy and Greece as part of your programme. You will study the myth, literature, art, history, and politics of classical Athens and Augustan Rome.

You will read Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid alongside the histories of Thucydides and Tacitus, works of Plato and Cicero, poems of Horace and dramas by Aristophanes and Euripides.

Could you get in?

The grades students arrived with

112-127 pts10%

128-143 pts20%

144-159 pts20%

160-175 pts10%

176-191 pts5%

192-207 pts5%

224-239 pts10%

240+ pts5%

How they qualified

83% got in with alevel. The rest came in a mix of ways: