Download OVID - Classics with Dr Cotton

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 Exam
You 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 wholetext issues e.g. character, treatment of
key themes
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Ovid
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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
Social values
Plays with genre
Humour
Poetic persona
Character
Witty
Learned
Light hearted
– but serious too
Emotion & drama
Different
Love