Latin

Course summary

At A Level, students have the opportunity to study both language and literature, gradually acquiring the language skills to read literature confidently in the original Latin. Prescribed literature texts cover a range of subjects including history, myth, religion, politics and philosophy. The course is composed of the following four units: • Unseen Translation: students will have to translate two Latin passages into English. • Comprehension: students will answer comprehension questions in English on a passage of Latin prose. • Latin Prose Literature: students will study a prose text of about 200 lines. In the examination, they will be asked to translate a short section of text and to answer a selection of factual and stylistic questions relating to it. Current Year 12 students are reading about an infamous murder case in Rome. • Latin Verse Literature: students will study a verse text of about 200 lines and will be asked to translate a short section of text and to answer a selection of factual and stylistic questions relating to it. We are currently studying selections from Virgil’s Aeneid.