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Exploring Antiquity: MA in Visual & Material Culture of Ancient Rome and Greece

This MA program offers an interdisciplinary approach to ancient studies, covering topics such as ancient visual and material culture, coins, inscriptions, and art reception. With options like art, numismatics, and epigraphy, students delve into private stories of intrigue and power, idealizations of classical Greek art, and identity construction in ancient Rome. The program includes site visits, seminar presentations, and dissertation research in Rome or Athens. Students can choose from 4 taught courses, with a focus on research training for a PhD. Funding options available include government loans and Warwick scholarships. Entry requirements vary for taught and research MAs, ensuring a high standard of academic excellence.

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Exploring Antiquity: MA in Visual & Material Culture of Ancient Rome and Greece

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  1. Why do an MA? • As a preparation for a future career • Teaching • Curatorial work/museums • Research assistant • Business • Research training for a PhD

  2. Degree Courses • Taught MAs • Ancient Visual and Material Culture • Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome • Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Greece • Research Degrees • MA (40,000 words) 1 yr f-t, 2 yrs p-t • MPhil (60,000 words) 2 yrs f-t, 4 yrs p-t • PhD (80,000 words) 4 ys f-t, 7 yrs p-t

  3. Taught MAsAncient Visual and Material CultureVisual & Material Culture of Ancient RomeVisual & Material Culture of Ancient Greece • 4 taught courses covered over 2 terms • 15,000-20,000 word dissertation • Core module on methods and approaches • Language module (Greek, Latin or modern) • Options including Art, Numismatics, Epigraphy or other options within Arts faculty • Rome/Greece MA includes 1 module taken at BSR or BSA (April –May) • Students apply separately. Fees paid by Warwick, student pays for accomm/travel.

  4. An interdisciplinary approach to the ancient world: coins, inscriptions, art and their reception… What private stories of intrigue, power and desire do public inscriptions betray? Why do we idealise classical Greek art? How did the Romans use art to construct personal and group identities? How should we read ancient coins? Why is modern art and sculpture so keen to, or so anxious about, imitating antiquity?

  5. Rome MA Site visits to ancient monuments Seminar presentations Talks by specialists Begin dissertation research in Rome Based at the British School at Rome – with excellent library on site

  6. Greece MA Site visits to ancient monuments Seminar presentations Courses led by specialists: epigraphy, numismatics, pottery Talks by specialists Begin dissertation research in Rome Based at the British School at Athens – with excellent library on site

  7. The MA by Research • Two Routes: Route A: • 40,000 words written over 12 months Route B: • 2 x 5,000 word essays, • language training and dossier • 25,000 word dissertation • In both cases your work will be examined by both an internal and external examiner (except Language dossier – marked at Warwick only).

  8. Training and Supervision • Training and induction sessions in term 1 • Language training, as necessary • Work-in progress seminars in terms 1 and 2 • Postgraduate Conference, summer term Ability to choose your topic – some past examples:

  9. Some past and present topics • Women and empowerment in the Classical world • Ideas of the Cosmos in Ancient Greek Medicine • James Stuart - pioneer of the Classical Revival? • Reception of Silver Age Latin in the Gothic Tradition • The Idea of the Hero in Ancient Greece • Views of Poetry in Ancient Greece • Kalos inscriptions on Greek Vases • Drinking and Drunkenness in Ancient Rome • Golden Age Imagery in Late Roman Coinage • The Sacks of Rome in Historiographical Discourse • A denarius perpetuus? The circulation of the ‘legionary denarii’ of Mark Antony in Roman Italy and Britain 32 BC-AD 294

  10. Warwick’s areas of expertise • ART, ARCHAEOLOGY, EPIGRAPHY AND NUMISMATICS (Zahra Newby, Alison Cooley, Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Kevin Butcher, Michael Scott) • LATIN LITERATURE AND ITS RECEPTION (Andrew Laird, Vicky Rimell) • GREEK LITERATURE AND THEATRE (David Fearn, EmmaneulaBakola) • RENAISSANCE RECEPTIONS (Andrew Laird, Maude Vanhaelen) • GREEK HISTORY (James Davidson, Michael Scott) • ROMAN HISTORY (Alison Cooley, Kevin Butcher, Zahra Newby) • SEXUALITY AND GENDER (James Davidson) • ANCIENT MEDICINE (Caroline Petit) • ANCIENT PHYSIOGNOMY (Simon Swain) • ANCIENT ATHLETICS (Zahra Newby)   • EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN (Simon Swain, Zahra Newby, Kevin Butcher) • SECOND SOPHISTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE (Andrew Laird, Zahra Newby, Simon Swain)

  11. Warwick’s Research Culture • Staff who are active researchers and leading scholars in their fields • Research seminars • Interdisciplinary focus with links with Italian, History of Art, Renaissance Studies, 18th Century Studies • Postgraduate conference

  12. Entry Requirements • Taught MA: a good 2-1 in Classics-related subject (average 65% +) • Research MA: A high 2-1 in Classics-related degree (average 65% + and at least 68% in 3rd year dissertation)

  13. Funding • Government loan scheme: • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/funding/fundingyourstudies/pgloans • Up to £10,000 pounds • Warwick Taught Masters Scholarships Scheme: for students from under-represented groups (have to meet specific criteria) deadline tbc but probably March 2017. • £5000 off academic fees • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/scholarship/typesoffunding/wtmss/ • Departmental Bursary Competition (fees only, MA and PhD) • Deadline Friday 10th March 2017: by this time you must have • Applied online and ensured that your academic transcript is uploaded and your referees have uploaded their references • Emailed to z.l.newby@warwick.ac.uk a statement in application, including details of your financial position (e.g any bursaries awarded, sources of income etc). • For further details see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/applying/postgraduate/feesfunding/#deptbursaries

  14. How to apply • Apply online • http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/howto/ • Referees will be asked to upload their references to the online system. • You will also need to upload an academic transcript, or HEAR report. • No fixed deadline until end July, but prefer applications by end April

  15. Further Questions? • Email z.l.newby@warwick.ac.uk

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