OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and Society
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and Societyrewriting lists on how excitement, sympathy, etc are created(Original post by vm7169)
I'm so scared about the OCR Classical Civilisation AS Homer's Odyssey and Society -how are people going about revising for it?
roles of gods/omens/backstory/fantasy etc in making it succesful
leadership of Odysseus
And I'm going through each context book and writing a summary...
I get the names totally confused...I mean theres Antilochus, Eurylochus, Eurymachus (Eurysaces in Ajax!), and about 4 differene Polybus', one of which is a suitor, and another is the father of a suitor...TOO MANY FRICKIN' NAMES!
And yes...im more scared than Telemachus adressing the suitors D: -
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Ahh that's good advice, hopefully I'll be able to manage to do it in one day! The names are terrible, I think I might actually have to spend some time doing a character map of major and minor characters! I hope the context question is okay, I'm really hoping book of the dead or any horrible ones don't come up!
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyI know, same! half the book is like, and then he met another dead woman. and another. and another.(Original post by vm7169)
Ahh that's good advice, hopefully I'll be able to manage to do it in one day! The names are terrible, I think I might actually have to spend some time doing a character map of major and minor characters! I hope the context question is okay, I'm really hoping book of the dead or any horrible ones don't come up!
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyI've been having a look at the past papers and the specimen and book 9 isn't featured in any of them, neither is book 12 so I think there's a good chance of one of those ones coming up in the context questions, surprised they haven't before IMO they're 2 of the best books.
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Really? It would be best possible scenario for me if book 9 came up or possibly book 6 (some of it was my GCSE Greek set text) I would hope not 12 though, just for the listing part for the first question!(Original post by lordalej)
I've been having a look at the past papers and the specimen and book 9 isn't featured in any of them, neither is book 12 so I think there's a good chance of one of those ones coming up in the context questions, surprised they haven't before IMO they're 2 of the best books.
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyYeah, that's what I've gathered from looking at the past papers, however now I've said it the books that come up are bound to be completely different(Original post by vm7169)
Really? It would be best possible scenario for me if book 9 came up or possibly book 6 (some of it was my GCSE Greek set text) I would hope not 12 though, just for the listing part for the first question!
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I agree though book 9 would be perfect, I did it at gcse as well and my class loved it, we used to talk about it all the time, what do you mean by all of the listing for book 12?
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Just because the book 12 names are confusing and they seem to rush through quite a lot of information that you'd need to write in for the bullet points-that's probably the bit I'm most worried about and the bit most people find to be almost guaranteed marks:') unfortunately you can't blag that bit!(Original post by lordalej)
Yeah, that's what I've gathered from looking at the past papers, however now I've said it the books that come up are bound to be completely different I agree though book 9 would be perfect, I did it at gcse as well and my class loved it, we used to talk about it all the time, what do you mean by all of the listing for book 12?
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Ah that's a point that one is hard to scrape detail up for:/ thank god they have choice questions!(Original post by MirrorPixie)
I pray to Zeus that Book 8 doesn't come up!!!!
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyIve been writing last minute context book summaries, and gave up when i saw how long frickin book 19 is >:|
ah well. im not sure which bits you should include in the detail, like how much of that 'and then he met this woman' waffle of book 11 is neccessary? -
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyBook 11 came up 2 years ago on the paper, so I would doubt that for part A it will come up. It could, obviously(Original post by geology.is.gneiss)
Ive been writing last minute context book summaries, and gave up when i saw how long frickin book 19 is >:|
ah well. im not sure which bits you should include in the detail, like how much of that 'and then he met this woman' waffle of book 11 is neccessary?
For the essay, no women really strike me as too important. You have such a plethora of other women to chose from. Much else of the book is very important, I don't feel, then, they picked it for its list of women - I doubt you need to know it really The women part.
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Re: OCR AS Classical Civilisation Homer's Odyssey and SocietyWouldn't be surprised if you weren't the only one actually.
I spent a bit too much time on the narrative question for Question A, there was simply SO much you could've put! It was so generously cruel.
I didn't spend enough time on Question C which worries me..I only put two examples of supernatural stuff - Cyclops and Circe.. so basic and not even thematic enough ;-; So sad about that. But I did go in depth about them and related it to the society and stuff.. but I'm just not sure.. such a pain.
I thought the xenia question for the essays was amazing, it's a shame I ran out of time though. I couldn't really explore as well as I was capable of... I failed to mention about how the Phaeacians were punished for their xenia towards Odysseus - would've been a good point to use when describing the gods relationship with xenia :/
Having an amazing passage to analyse isn't always a good thing I guess.
I guess I snabbed around a Bish which is sad because I kinda need an A :/Last edited by Twilight_Star; 24-05-2012 at 17:03.
I agree though book 9 would be perfect, I did it at gcse as well and my class loved it, we used to talk about it all the time, what do you mean by all of the listing for book 12?
