Latin

Course summary

In each year of the course, you will study one verse and one prose set text, which will enable you to acquire a detailed appreciation of writers whose inuence on subsequent generations has been enormous: Virgil, Cicero, Ovid, Propertius, Tacitus, Tibullus, Seneca. e study of Latin oers entry into the astonishing achievements and rich intellectual landscape of the Romans. Like Greek, Latin beautifully complements all other A Level subjects and is an academic discipline held in the highest esteem by admissions tutors at university level. Unit H043/01: Latin Language (1 hour 30 minute exam) • Unseen Latin prose, tested by translation into English (55 marks) • Either unseen Latin prose comprehension questions or translation of English sentences into Latin (25 marks) • 80 marks, 50% of total AS marks Unit H043/02: Latin Verse and Prose Literature (2 hour exam) • One prescribed prose text (40 marks) • One prescribed verse text (40 marks) • 80 marks, 50% of total AS marks Texts in 2024 will be selections from: • Either Cicero, ‘Pro Caelio’, 51-58, 61-68 or Tacitus, ‘Annals’ XII, 25-26, 41-43, 52-53, 56-59, 64-69. • Either Virgil, ‘Aeneid’ Book 2, 40-249 or Juvenal, ‘Satire’ 6, 1-113, 242-305, 352-365, 398-412.