Classical Greek

Assessment

The course is carefully structured over the two years, to build your skills and confidence. In Language lessons, you will revise and consolidate the language you learned at GCSE, plus take on new grammar and vocabulary. Your language skills are assessed through the translation of prose and verse passages, alongside comprehension and grammar questions. Meanwhile, for the Prose and Verse Literature papers you study texts by Homer or Greek tragedians, and the prose authors Herodotus and Plato, for papers which will involve translation, comprehension, close analysis of a passage and synoptic essays. Lessons will often involve translations and discussion of the style and content of texts and passages.