Classics or Ancient History

If you take Classics you'll be studying classical languages. In the process of this, you'll look at literary, cultural, historical texts and resources in that language. It's likely up to you to choose which direction you focus on (although initially you'll probably have some exposure to all of them), but the overall focus is on the languages typically (although the university in question may lean towards one direction or another for research, which will likely influence what options are available).

For Ancient History, you'll just be looking at the historical and perhaps cultural content in translation. It's unlikely you'll do much with the literary work (in translation or otherwise, unless you took some outside option) in an Ancient History course, although you may have the opportunity to develop one of the classical languages in the usual structure of the course. This is in general though; the specific degree programmes noted may vary of course...

Hi !
Thanks for the speedy reply, I feel like Classics would provide a fuller immersion in the classical world other than ancient history, of course, I have looked at specific modules for each iys just v. hard to come up with a decision, but thank you !

I mean it depends on what you want to do, but my impression was if you want to go into academia in Ancient History (or classical literature, or classical philosophy) the language(s) are kind of a must. So, it's probably better to pick an option that will let you take up language alongside if that is something which may be of interest. Otherwise, it probably doesn't matter, but honestly by the looks of it, both options give you as much leeway to go into either side as you like.

The St Andrews option will likely allow you to take up Classics/Latin/Greek as a joint subject, and almost certainly to at least start out in the languages, and you have more "room" to make changes between the different courses over the 4 year programme. Manchester as noted has the choice of taking more Ancient History content. You may as well just put both of them as your firm/insurance, in order of preference