GCSE Latin ~ Verse Literature
Please note: enrolment for this course has now closed. Please see our Certificate in Latin Language & Roman Civilisation or Certificate in Latin Language courses for the replacement to GCSE from September 2010.
We study 170 lines of original Latin verse literature (poetry), taken from the Cambridge Latin Anthology (CLA).
For the summer 2010 examinations, this literature consists of the following extracts from Virgil, Catullus, Martial, Ovid and Petronius:
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Nisus and Euryalus (CLA pp. 12-24), taken from Virgil Aeneid IX lines 176-502 |
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How many kisses? (CLA pp. 48-49), Catullus Poem 7 |
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Can she be faithful? (CLA pp. 48-49), Catullus Poem 109 |
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Conflicting emotions (CLA pp. 48-49), Catullus Poem 85 |
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Contradictions (CLA pp. 50-51), Martial Epigrams XII.47 |
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Ovid picks a favourite at the races (CLA pp. 50-51), taken from Ovid Amores III.2 |
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Pyrrha (CLA pp. 52-3), Horace Odes I.V |
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Alcyone fears for her husband Ceyx who has to go on a journey (CLA pp. 54-5), taken from Ovid Metamorphoses XI lines 415-29 and 439-43 |
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Love will not let the poet sleep (CLA pp. 56-7), Petronius fragment. |
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