OCR Classical Greek

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There's probably not a thread as only about five people do it Nationwide :p:

I'm envious of you getting to study it.

Reply 2

do u do latin as well?

Reply 3

which do u find easier, greek or latin,

they only offer latin to us (and classics) but not greek :frown:

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hmm...i'd love to learn ancient greek, i saw a book about it 2day :biggrin:

well, i love teh literature anyways, so thast a start :biggrin:

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evissa

hmm...i'd love to learn ancient greek, i saw a book about it 2day :biggrin:

well, i love teh literature anyways, so thast a start :biggrin:

I brought a great book on it. My summer project is to learn the basics, I've learnt the alphabet as a starter.

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Ed.

I brought a great book on it. My summer project is to learn the basics, I've learnt the alphabet as a starter.

can i just ask which book you bought?? :smile:

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I am!!

Yeah, they offer it with Latin - "Gratin" at my school so i thought another GCSE what the hell.
It really is a lot harder than Latin but good fun, my dates are the same as yours...is language your last exam?

We're doing background instead of prose which is Olympics and Greek Theatre. I think I'd rather do prose tbh.
Verse we're doing the Iliad Book 1 - basically 170 lines of Achilles and Agamemnon bickering.

And yeah we pretty much transcend cool with Greek GCSE =P

Reply 8

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evissa

can i just ask which book you bought?? :smile:

You can, it was 'Learn Ancient Greek' by Peter Jones. Cost me about £12 on Amamzon.

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Cheers, I'll check that out. I forgot to thank you for your advice earlier up the thread also. Thanks.

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Hedgehunter

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Ed.

There's probably not a thread as only about five people do it Nationwide :p:

I'm envious of you getting to study it.

People at my school do it...we dont envy them as they have the last GCSE exam in the school...on the 18th like you said.

However, I wished I had continued Latin for GCSE, it looks good on your UCAS, though I saw that they had to learn many ancient texts off by heart and most of the vocab...perhaps not so fun. :p:

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Hedgehunter

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Yeah..they said that some of the papers were really easy.

I bet if i ever meet my Latin teacher from my Prep school again, he will hate me for not doing it....It was quite fun for the few years i did it. Caecilius and all that. :wink:

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Yeah I do all the same as you for Latin.

No its just one subject block, two GCSEs - 11th A* for me hopefully.

We use 'Greek To GCSE' by someone Taylor. It's fairly good but it contains lots of extra stuff like the Dual :/

A classic xD yeah the second half of book 2 goes into ridiculous detail. Perfect middle subjunctive? lol

I'm thinking of doing Latin for A-level but they don't offer Greek - how about you?

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Greek A-lvl cool xD
How many people are doing it? In my school they have just stopped offering it - in U6 there is a class of one person lol

Yeah subjunctive is just a lengthened vowel sound, and i think its only gonna be in conditional which is easy to recognise anyway.

Hopefully for language exam Haemus the Thracian 2: The Athenian Adventure

omg i can't believe i just wrote that -_-

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salil

Octavian

Greek A-lvl cool xD
How many people are doing it? In my school they have just stopped offering it - in U6 there is a class of one person lol

Yeah subjunctive is just a lengthened vowel sound, and i think its only gonna be in conditional which is easy to recognise anyway.

Hopefully for language exam Haemus the Thracian 2: The Athenian Adventure

omg i can't believe i just wrote that -_-

hehe. oh how interesting our classical language exam adventures are. i was disappointed though at the lack of gore/venenum.

hmm, prose tomorrow; doing psammetichus, amasis and cyrus...

I taught it myself this year; my teacher didn't really think i was going to do the exam, so he couldn't be bothered to teach me.

Do any of you guys know if, like the latin, there's gonna be like close language/stylistic analysis? :|

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salil

The Psammetichos thing and the frivolity of Amasis came up..

I'm pretty sure that tomorrow, it'll be Cyrus and how Amasis brought himself to the Egyptians...

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Yes I've done Latin and I'm doing Greek starting tomorrow.
There are quite a few strange people in my classics set too...I guess its a trend.

Good luck everyone for tomorrow btw, in case I don't post again til then =)

Reply 17

FluffyLion

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I do Greek (Y). One of two in my year, lol. We've not got a prose paper... But we did do coursework, which I presume you guys didn't...? Iphigenia is so hard, but I'll probably get an A in that, and I can get an A* in the translation with a little bit of revision, lol.
Is Amasis a bit of Herodotus? We had to learn that for a speaking competition... I did so badly, which was annoying, cause I got second place the year before.

Btw, it helps to recognise the perfect for Iphigenia if you cba to learn the text, lol. I doubt I will, cause the exam is on the monday, and I'm working 20 hours that weekend :godancing:

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