Introduction

Please note that operation of optional courses depends on the availability of the faculty and the interest of the students enrolled. All courses will be available only in English medium. Only four (4) optional courses are to be chosen for Postgraduate Diploma. All courses carry three credits each and the independent study one credit, while an applicant should earn 25 credits to be qualified for the diploma.

Overview

Semester	Course Code	Course Title	Prerequisites	Status (C/ O)
First	GRS 501	Elementary Greek/ Latin I	None	C
First	GRS 503	History of Greek Literature	None	C
First	GRS 506	Greek Sculpture of the Classical Period	None	O
First	GRS 507	Greek and Roman Mythology	None	O
Second	GRS 502	Elementary Greek/ Latin II	GRS 501	C
Second	GRS 504	History of Roman Literature	None	C
Second	GRS 505	Cicero, the Man and his Works	None	O
Second	GRS 508	Greek and Roman Drama	None	O
Second	GRS 509	History of the Roman Republic	None	O

C = Compulsory | O = Optional

Diploma Course Syllabus

Semester ONE

GRS 501 - Elementary Greek/ Latin I

Course Code	GRS 501
Course Title	Elementary Greek/ Latin I
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to read unabridged verse and prose passages in simple Greek or Latin and explain simple grammatical and syntactical features of the language and comment on how they make the language function.
Course Description	Latin: Verbs: 1^st and 2^nd conjugations; nouns and cases: 1^st declension; 2^nd declension; adjectives; tenses: indicative; irregular verbs; 3^rd declension; 3^rd conjugation; imperative; demonstratives; 4^th conjugation; personal pronouns; reflexive pronouns; possessives; 3^rd declension ‘i’ stem nouns; ablative; numerals; genitive; adjectives; passive voice: 1^st and 2^nd conjugations; relative pronoun; perfect active of all verbs; perfect passive of all verbs; 4^th declension; present passive of all verbs; 5^th declension. Greek: Verb forms: endings, indicative mood; declensions; nouns and cases; the imperative; articles; infinitives; adjectives; adverbs; contract verbs in ‘a’; agreement of subject and verb; personal pronouns; possessive adjectives; attributive and predicate position; middle voice; dative case; prepositions; reflexive pronouns; interrogative pronoun and adjective; indefinite pronoun and adjective; participles: active, middle; numbers; impersonal verbs; aorist; imperfect; relative clauses; comparison of adjectives; demonstrative adjectives, interrogatives and indefinites; contract verbs in ‘o’.

GRS 503 - History of Greek Literature

Course Code	GRS 503
Course Title	History of Greek Literature
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to evaluate some of the earliest known literary works in the world and explain the different styles of authors, their aims and objectives, and the role and place of literature in ancient Greece. They will also be able to assess the influence of the different authors and their literary works on each other in addition to their influence on modern literature in respect of literary aims and objectives, genres and traditions.
Course Description	Homer; Hesiod; cyclic epics; Homeric hymns; elegy and iambus; archaic choral lyric; monody; choral lyric of the 5^th century; tragedy; comedy; early Greek philosophy; historiography; sophists; Plato; Xenophon; oratory; Aristotle; post-Aristotelian philosophy; Hellenistic poetry; the literature of the empire.

GRS 506 - Greek Sculpture of the Classical Period

Course Code	GRS 506
Course Title	Greek Sculpture of the Classical Period
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to comment on the different styles of Greek sculpture of the 5^th and 4^th Centuries BC, and identify the sources that influenced them. They will also be able to identify how the Greeks adapted sculpture for different purposes, and analyze and assess the influence of Greek sculpture on modern architecture in the West as well as in the East.
Course Description	Archaic period; early classical relief sculpture; votive and architectural reliefs; grave reliefs/monuments; Parthenon; Myron; Phedias; Polycleitus; Cresilas and other major and minor sculptors; style and characteristics of late classical sculpture; architectural sculpture; sculpture of gods and goddesses, men, women and children of the 4^th century; portrait sculpture; themes, uses and significance of sculpture.

GRS 507 - Greek and Roman Mythology

Course Code	GRS 507
Course Title	Greek and Roman Mythology
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able evaluate the use of myth and their variants in Greek and Roman literature, vase paintings, and sculpture, and assess the significance of myths in the life and thought of the Greeks and the Romans.
Course Description	Definition of myth; interpretation of myth; myth and truth; myth and religion; historical background of Greek mythology; Homer; myths of creation- the gods; the creation of mortals; the twelve Olympians; the nature of the gods; myth, religion and philosophy; Poseidon, sea deities, group divinities and monsters; Athena; Aphrodite and Eros; Artemis; Apollo; Hermes; Dionysus; Demeter and the Eleusinian mysteries; afterlife and Hades; mystery religions.

Semester TWO

GRS 502 - Elementary Greek/ Latin II

Course Code	GRS 502
Course Title	Elementary Greek/ Latin II
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able read unabridged verse and prose passages in advanced Greek or Latin and explain complex and difficult features of syntax and grammar and how they contribute to the structure of ancient Greek / Latin. They will also be able to read and explain the grammatical features of difficult verse and prose passages and, begin reading in the original Greek authors such as Plato in Greek and Caesar in Latin.
Course Description	Latin: Participles; ablative absolute; passive periphrastic; dative case; infinitives; indirect statement; comparison of adjectives and declension of comparatives; special and irregular comparison of adjectives; subjunctive mood; present subjunctive; jussive and purpose clauses; imperfect subjunctive; result clauses; perfect and pluperfect subjunctive; sequence of tenses; indirect questions; cum clauses; formation and comparison of adverbs; proviso clauses; conditions; deponent verbs; dative with compounds and special verbs; jussive noun clauses; constructions of place and time; relative clauses of characteristic; supines; gerund and gerundive; fear clauses. Greek: The future tense; irregular verbs; the genitive absolute; attributive and predicate position of adjectives; the subjunctive mood; the uses of the subjunctive; clauses of fearing; indefinite or general clauses; indirect statements and questions; the passive voice; aorist of deponent verbs; comparison of adjectives; the optative mood; correlatives; perfect and pluperfect middle and passive; the articular infinitive; conditional clauses.

GRS 504 - History of Roman Literature

Course Code	GRS 504
Course Title	History of Roman Literature
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to evaluate some of the earliest known literary works in the world and explain the different styles of authors, their aims and objectives, and the role and place of literature in ancient Rome. Students will also be able to assess the influence of the different authors and their literary works on each other in addition to their influence on modern literature in respect of literary aims and objectives, genres and traditions.
Course Description	The early Roman theatre: Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Plautus, Caecilius Statius; oratory and historiography of the archaic period; Ennius; Cato; Terence; development of tragedy; development of epic poetry; neoteric poetry and Catullus; Lucretius; Cicero; philosophy; biography; Caesar; Sallust; Virgil; Horace; Elegy; Ovid; Livy; historiography; scholarship and technical disciplines; Seneca; Lucan; Petronius; Perseus and Juvenal; Epic in the Flavian period; Pliny the Elder; Martial and the epigram; Quintilian; Pliny the Younger; Tacitus; Suetonius and minor historians; Apuleius; philology, rhetoric and literary criticism, law.

GRS 505 - Cicero, the Man and his Works

Course Code	GRS 505
Course Title	Cicero, the Man and his Works
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to assess the contribution of Cicero to oratory, philosophy, law, politics and literature, and analyze the impact of his works on ancient as well as modern literature, life, and thought.
Course Description	The personality, career and the many-sided literary genius of Cicero; contribution to Roman culture, philosophy, and law; his political ideal (concordiaordinum) and its failure; speeches, essays, letters, and poetry..

GRS 508 - Greek and Roman Drama

Course Code	GRS 508
Course Title	Greek and Roman Drama
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be ableto identify and explain some of the main characteristics of Greek tragedy and Greek and Roman comedy, and assess their contribution to European literature, art, music as well as their influence on modern Sri Lankan drama.
Course Description	The origin and development of Greek and Roman drama: dramatic festivals, Dionysus, drama and the polis; tragedy and Greek religion; major Greek tragedians and their works: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; other tragedians; the satyr play; Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, Seneca; origin and development of Roman comedy; Greek old comedy; Middle comedy; Menander and New comedy; Roman comedy; Plautus, Terence. Prescribed texts.

GRS 509 - History of the Roman Republic

Course Code	GRS 509
Course Title	History of the Roman Republic
ILOs	At the end of the course students will be able to identify and explain the socio – political, economicand literary atmosphere of Rome from the Punic Wars to the rule of Augustus Caesar, and assess the role played by the individuals and institutions, and their impact on the period under investigation.
Course Description	Sources for the early history of Rome; archaic Rome; origins of Rome; Rome in the 5^th and 4^th centuries BC; the conquest of Italy; Rome and Italy in the 3^rd century; Carthage and Rome; 2^nd century BC; 1^st century BC; early principate.