Classical Civilisation

Assessment

Candidates have to write essays and answer a series of source based questions. There is a compulsory unit, ‘the world of the hero’, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid. The examination lasts for 2 hours and 20 minutes. This unit is worth 40% of the final qualification. Candidates then study one topic from each of these two units, ‘culture and the arts’ (topics are the Greek theatre, Greek Art, invention of the barbarian and imperial image) and ‘beliefs and ideas’ (topics are love and relationships, politics of the late republic, Greek religion and democracy and the Athenians). Candidates sit an examination for each unit of 2 hours and 45 minutes each. Each of these 2 units is worth 30% of the final qualification.