A Level Latin
Dates Available
- Week 1: Monday 29 March – Friday 2 April
- Week 2: Monday 5 – Friday 9 April
- Week 3: Monday 12 – Friday 16 April
Boards
OCR H443
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 Milone, 53–64, 72–80 or Tacitus, Annals I, 3–7, 11–14, 46–49 or Seneca, Letters, 51, 53 and 57
Verse
Virgil, Aeneid Book X, 215–250, 260–307, 362–398, 426–542 or Ovid Amores 2.7 & 2.8, Propertius 1.3 & 2.14 and Tibullus 1.3 or Ovid, Heroides, VI 1–100, 127–164, X 1–76 and 119–150
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 Milone: A Selection with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by Robert West
Tacitus Annals I: A Selection with Introduction by Roland Mayer and Notes and Commentary by Katharine Radice
Virgil Aeneid VIII: A Selection with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by Keith MacLennan
Ovid, Propertius and Tibullus: A Selection of Latin Love Poetry with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by Anita Nikkanen
Ovid, Heroides: A Selection with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by John Godwin
Seneca, Letters: A Selection with Introduction, Notes and Commentary by Eliot Maunder
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