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KEY STAGE 5

LATIN (OCR)

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

From September 2008 pupils 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
Virgil, Aeneid I 1–38, 50–123, 157–179, 223–360, 387–392, 418–438; the rest in translation.

Prose Literature
Tacitus, Annals XIV 1–16

CLASSICAL CIVILISATION

From September 2008 pupils study the following topics:

AS
Homer’s Odyssey and Society

Roman Society and Thought – Horace, Juvenal, Petronius and Pliny

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

Virgil and the World of the Hero – Virgil and Homer

CLASSICS TRIP

In October 2010 there is a school Classics Trip to Rome and Sorrento.

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