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This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification
in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen
passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with
passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2, for
which no author is set. A bank of 80 passages aims to take Sixth
Form students from the level of heavily adapted post-GCSE
('AS'-equivalent) passages and develop their knowledge and skills
to reach A-Level standard. But this is not just a book of unseen
passages: there is a chronological progression through the unseens
in order to give the reader a sense of the narrative of Roman
history, exploring key events through the words of original texts.
Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic
content of the passage, followed by a 'lead-in' sentence,
paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. Part 1
passages are straight translation exercises on the model of the
A-Level Paper 1. They also feature, however, a 'Discendum' box,
highlighting a facet of Latin prose with which students may not be
familiar, or extension questions on grammar and style. Part 2
passages are accompanied by questions on comprehension, translation
and grammar, replicating the demands of Paper 2 in full. An
extensive word list is provided in the form of checklists which
build the reader's knowledge of the most commonly occurring words
and phrases in Latin prose. The passages are punctuated with
discussions of Roman history during the periods covered in the
passages, and a comprehensive introduction includes portraits of
the authors featured in the book, as well as grammatical reminders
to help readers deal with both the trickier elements of unseen
prose and with A-Level grammatical analysis questions.
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of
ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have
played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical
understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text
plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had
apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling
the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a
grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy
climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy
Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of
central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's
'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the
ashes of the city.
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of
ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have
played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical
understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text
plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had
apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling
the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a
grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy
climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy
Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of
central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's
'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the
ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that
the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes
on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these
mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular
new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire:
Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters
focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic
senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who
courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption
and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original
Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed
to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive
commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at
both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed
linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical
engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent
scholarly thought.
Ovid Unseens provides a bank of 80 practice passages of Latin
verse, half elegiac and half hexameter. Taken from across Ovid's
works, including the Metamorphoses, Fasti, Heroides, Amores and
Tristia, the passages help build students' knowledge and confidence
in a notoriously difficult element of Latin language learning.
Every passage begins with an introduction, outlining the basic
story and theme of the passage, followed by a 'lead-in' sentence,
paraphrasing the few lines before the passage begins. The first set
of passages are translation exercises of 12-16 lines, each
accompanied by a Discendum box which highlights a key feature of
poetic Latin, equipping students further with the skills to tackle
ever more difficult verse passages at first sight. These are
followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions
on comprehension and stylistic analysis, replicating unseen verse
exam questions in full. The comprehensive introduction provides an
overview of Ovid's life and work, an account of some of the
stylistic features of his poetry, and practical help in the form of
tips on how to approach the more challenging lines of Latin verse
and produce a fluent translation. A step-by-step guide to scansion,
with practice exercises and answers, covers the essential
principles for scanning lines of Latin verse, from the basics of
understanding syllables, feet and types of metres, to coping with
elision and caesurae. A guideline verse vocabulary list is provided
which covers words particularly common in Ovid's works. Broken down
into small 'checklists', each corresponding to a group of four
passages, the vocabulary is learnt cumulatively and as it is
encountered.
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