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A-Level Classical Civilisation (OCR H408) — the sole provider; a compulsory component plus chosen Culture & the Arts and Beliefs & Ideas options.
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A-Level Classical Civilisation (OCR H408) — the sole provider; a compulsory component plus chosen Culture & the Arts and Beliefs & Ideas options.
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In-depth study of one Homeric epic (the Iliad or the Odyssey): composition, oral tradition, heroic values, gods and mortals, and context.
Virgil's Aeneid: Homeric influence, the hero and Rome's destiny, pietas versus furor, fate, and the Augustan context.
The City Dionysia, theatre space and stagecraft, tragic and comic conventions, three set plays, and Aristotle on tragedy (Culture & the Arts option).
How Augustus crafted his public image across literature and visual and material culture, and its legacy (Culture & the Arts option).
How the Greeks constructed the "barbarian" other, Greek identity, the Persian Wars and stereotypes (Culture & the Arts option).
Free-standing and architectural sculpture and vase-painting: function, materials, style and theme (Culture & the Arts option).
The Olympian gods, personal experience of the divine, religion and society, ritual, and the challenge of philosophy (Beliefs & Ideas option).
Greek and Roman ideas on men, women and marriage, through philosophy (Plato, Seneca) and poetry (Sappho, Ovid) (Beliefs & Ideas option).
Political thought of 79-43 BC through Cato, Caesar and Cicero, the res publica, and optimates versus populares (Beliefs & Ideas option).
The concept of democracy through Solon, Cleisthenes and the fifth-century developments, and Aristophanes' political satire (Beliefs & Ideas option).
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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