A-level Classical Civilisation Study Group 2023-2024

hey anyone that does iliad for WOH is family a particularly big theme? i do ody and aeneid and am thinking the paper could be family themed....

I do odyssey and Aeneid as well, what are you thinking for it 🙂

Hi guys, just a question
I'm studying the aeneid and iliad and have my exam on Tuesday, but I'm really struggling to remember modern scholarship
Any advice?

telemachus 20
venus (or juno) 20
father-sons OR parent-child 30 for either of them
maybe also a dual-focus pietas-furor 30 for aeneid seeing as ocr have been super into their dual focuses

what else could you write about for telemachus, other than his character development + impeccable xenia? panicking a bit 😩

Any predictions for WOH paper 1 Iliad and Aeneid? I know pretty much nothing about The Aeneid, so I am praying The Iliad will carry me through the paper tomorrow.

Heyy! I wanted to say, totally in the same boat btw, super cramming Aeneid right now ngl, My teacher said that on the Iliad side they could bring up smaller characters like they did last year with Nestor but with Aeneid there is less of a threat with that because it is quite clear who are the most important characters. You will probably not get an isolated Q on any female characters who aren't Dido, Aeneas is the most likely person to be asked about obvs, the gods will most likely be linked together in a 30 but the only ones she could see getting a 20 is Jupiter, Juno and Venus, Turnus could def also have a question. I hope this is of some help; the way I am cramming is looking at key points for each theme and character and watching MoAn inc Youtube summaries on the Iliad. Soz if this was all irrelevant but I so get you right now! Good luck!!

Any predictions for WOH paper 1 Iliad and Aeneid? I know pretty much nothing about The Aeneid, so I am praying The Iliad will carry me through the paper tomorrow.

Thanks so much for your comment! I just had no idea what to do because OCR are hard to predict. Really hoping it isn’t a small character in The Iliad because I think I will cry! There is so much to look at. I’ve started making character profiles on some of the main characters in The Aeneid. Really don’t know how I am going to do in the 30 marker. I never can think of theorists!

My classics teacher did remind us all that the Iliad and Aeneid are one of the most written about texts of all time, so if you are really in a jam and you can't think of your third theorist you could probs just make it up and the examiner wouldn't know otherwise. Like some of the quotes i have for theorists are from lectures and those are valid even though they were never written down, so like at the end of the day if you are really stuck just make it up but it is obvs worth knowing a few. If you know for sure you are gonna pick the Iliad question for the 30 you only need to focus on scholars for that one text, can be a bit risky but it cuts the amount you have to do down significantly. No probs at all, I know there is so much to focus on it is like rlly scary, but you got this!!

My classics teacher did remind us all that the Iliad and Aeneid are one of the most written about texts of all time, so if you are really in a jam and you can't think of your third theorist you could probs just make it up and the examiner wouldn't know otherwise. Like some of the quotes i have for theorists are from lectures and those are valid even though they were never written down, so like at the end of the day if you are really stuck just make it up but it is obvs worth knowing a few. If you know for sure you are gonna pick the Iliad question for the 30 you only need to focus on scholars for that one text, can be a bit risky but it cuts the amount you have to do down significantly. No probs at all, I know there is so much to focus on it is like rlly scary, but you got this!!

Heyy! I wanted to say, totally in the same boat btw, super cramming Aeneid right now ngl, My teacher said that on the Iliad side they could bring up smaller characters like they did last year with Nestor but with Aeneid there is less of a threat with that because it is quite clear who are the most important characters. You will probably not get an isolated Q on any female characters who aren't Dido, Aeneas is the most likely person to be asked about obvs, the gods will most likely be linked together in a 30 but the only ones she could see getting a 20 is Jupiter, Juno and Venus, Turnus could def also have a question. I hope this is of some help; the way I am cramming is looking at key points for each theme and character and watching MoAn inc Youtube summaries on the Iliad. Soz if this was all irrelevant but I so get you right now! Good luck!!

At this point, lying is the way forward . One time I used a Dolly Parton quote about the loss of war "you can't have a rainbow, without a little rain" and all was fine.