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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 OVID OVID 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 Social values Plays with genre Humour Poetic persona Character Witty Learned Light hearted – but serious too Emotion & drama Different Love