KEY STAGE 5

LATIN (OCR)

For Latin we join with Watford Grammar School for Boys.
Next year (2008-2009) AS level Latin will be taught at Watford Grammar School for Girls.

Pupils are prepared for:
Language – unprepared translation (prose and verse).
Language – comprehension.

From September 2008 pupils will study the following set texts:

AS
Verse Literature – Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII. 6–121, 125–235.

Prose Literature – Cicero, In Catilinam I. 1–19.

A2
Verse Literature – one of the following texts:
Virgil, Aeneid I 1–38, 50–123, 157–179, 223–360, 387–392, 418–438, the rest in translation.
Catullus, poems 1, 2, 3, 4, 7–13, 22, 63, 70.

Prose Literature – one of the following texts:
Tacitus, Annals XIV 1–16.
Livy, Book XXIII 2–9.

CLASSICAL CIVILISATION

From September 2008 pupils will study the following topics:

AS
Homer’s Odyssey and Society.

Roman Society and Thought – Horace, Juvenal, Petronius and Pliny.
OR
Greek Tragedy in its context – Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

(depending on the timetabling of the staff involved)

A2
Comic Drama in the Ancient World – Aristophanes, Menander and Plautus.

Virgil and the World of the Hero – Virgil and Homer.

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