Year 12 Latin (OCR)

Year 12 Latin OCR

Dates Available

• Week 1: 30 March – 3 April
• Week 2: 6 April – 10 April
• Week 3: 13 April – 17 April

Boards

OCR H039

Length of Course

As required.

Times

Subject to requirement.

Tuition in this subject is available for all the modules on the syllabus. The subject is taught on an individual basis or in small groups and students must phone to discuss their requirements before completing a registration form.

The course will consist of intensive coverage of the two set texts and of practice in translating unseen Latin passages. As for the literature, tuition will concentrate on translation, stylistic assessment and exploring themes and characters of:

Prose

Cicero, pro Roscio Amerino, 5 (forsitan quaeratis …) – 29
(… iugulandum vobis tradiderunt)
OR
Nepos, Life of Hannibal, 1–13 (… Baebio Tamphilo)

Verse

Virgil, Aeneid Book 4, lines 1–128, 529–629
OR
Tibullus 1.2, 1.5, 2.4

You must clearly state which texts are required at time of booking.

Where the language is concerned, unseen passages from Cicero’s dialogues and courtroom speeches will be translated in class and the grammar and syntax of these analysed in detail.

Practice in Latin prose composition will also be offered if it is required.

Text

Cicero Pro Roscio Amerino: A Selection by Neil Treble
ISBN: 9781350384453

Virgil Aeneid IV: A Selection by John Storey
ISBN: 9781350383968