AS Latin

• Unit L1: Latin Language (1.5 hrs)

• Unit L2: Latin Verse and Prose Literature (1.5 hrs)– Ovid Amores 3, poems 2, 4, 5, 14– Cicero

Ovid: The ExamYou will be presented with a passage (or passages) of the

text (around 30 lines):• Translation questions

– c. 5 lines– Worth 30% marks– Needs to be accurate and fast

• Literary evaluation questions• Mini-essay

– 10 marks– Approx. 15 mins

• Knowledge of context/factual background to the text – 1 mark questions

Assessment Objectives

• AO1 Demonstrate Knowledge and Understanding– Recall and deploy relevant knowledge and

understanding of literary, cultural, material or historical sources or linguistic forms, in their appropriate contexts

• AO2 Analysis, Evaluation and Presentation– Analyse, evaluate and respond to classical sources as

appropriate– Select, organise and present relevant information and

argument in a clear, logical, accurate and appropriate form

AO1 - Knowledge AO2 - Analysis

AS Unit L1 50% 50%

AS Unit L2 50% 50%

A2 Unit L3 40% 60%

A2 Unit L4 40% 60%

Key Skills

• Ability to translate the text accurately and quickly

• Ability to offer literary evaluation of short passages

• Ability to write mini-essays on whole-text issues e.g. character, treatment of key themes

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Ovid• Born in Sulmo in 43 BC• Died in 17/18 AD• Educated in Rome• His father wanted him to study rhetoric and law• Ovid wanted to be a poet instead• He produced an incredibly large amount of poetry in

a range of genres, and is regarded as one of the great poets of antiquity

• In 8 AD, exiled to Tomis, on the black sea, for ‘carmen et error’

• Died there 10 years later

What kind of poetry did Ovid write?• Rhetorical training• His early work is about love (amores, ars amatoria, remedia amoris)

– Cheeky, irreverent; also moving

• His masterpiece is the Metamorphoses– Provides a history of the world from the Creation to the death of Julius

Caesar – but with a twist: each story contains a metamorphosis – A large-scale poem in 15 books written in hexameters– It aspires to rival the great epic poets of the classical tradition (Virgil &

Homer) – but on Ovid’s own terms.

• Tristia, (sorrows), published in 10 AD, autobiographical poem following his exile

• Epistulae a Ponto, (letters from the black sea)• Influenced by Alexandrian poetry – learned and sophisticated• Influenced by tragedy

LearnedWitty

Different

Emotion & drama

Character

Light hearted – but serious too

Poetic persona

Love

Humour

Social values Plays with genre