OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33 notes (1st edition)

Notes on: - courtroom setting, partial delivery & subsequent publication of Verrine speeches, form, structure and style of Roman legal oratory - including devices such as anaphora, apostrophe, tricolon and hyperbole, ways in which the speech is typical of Roman rhetorical practice, themes of corruption, justice and necessity of upholding the state, portrayal of Verres and his corruption and how this is created

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Notes on: Cicero’s ideas about the ideal state and how it had developed in Rome - role of concordia ordinum (’agreement of the orders’), ideal state of affairs as cum dignitate otium (’peace with dignity’), how his actions during his career can be rationalised with his political ideals, his attempt to reconcile senators and equites in concordia ordinum and the reasons why this failed, explanation of his relationships with and attitudes towards: optimates - including Cato, populares - i...

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Notes on: - reasons for and significance of first triumvirate, his first consulship and its ‘popular’ programme, politics of the civil war ands Caesar’s reasons for pursuing it, his dictatorship, ‘anti-republican’ behaviour and attitude to the republic, his plans for ‘popular’ reform, reasons for his assassination, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Cato, Pompey, Crassus and reasons for these

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Notes on: - Cicero’s correspondents and his relationship to them, form, structure and style of Roman letter writing, extent to which the letters can be informal or formal in tone, the choices of language and devices which create this, recurring ideas and themes in letters and their relationship to Cicero’s life and political career, public/private nature of the letters and their history of publication The letters included: to Pompey, fam. 5.7 to Atticus, att. 2.18 to Curio, fam. 2.4 to ...

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Notes on: - roman social hierarchy - patrician & plebeian families, nobiles, equites, idea of a novus homo, res republica and organisation of the state - including the offices of the cursus honorum, elections, tribal assembly, centuriate assembly, senate, government of the provinces, imperium (command), dictatorship, ideas and views of the populares (favouring the people) and the optimates/boni (aristocrats/good men), role and importance of patronage, amicitia (alliance) and inmicitia (personal ...

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Notes on: - influence of stoic philosophy on Cato’s political life, Cato’s allegiance to the optimates and how this position affected his legal and political activities, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Caesar, Publius Clodius Pulcher and reasons for these, his idealism compared to more pragmatic approaches to politics, his significance as a conservative in a changing political world

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5 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: Cicero’s ideas about the ideal state and how it had developed in Rome - role of concordia ordinum (’agreement of the orders’), ideal state of affairs as cum dignitate otium (’peace with dignity’), how his actions during his career can be rationalised with his political ideals, his attempt to reconcile senators and equites in concordia ordinum and the reasons why this failed, explanation of his relationships with and attitudes towards: optimates - including Cato, populares - i...

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4 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: - Cicero’s correspondents and his relationship to them, form, structure and style of Roman letter writing, extent to which the letters can be informal or formal in tone, the choices of language and devices which create this, recurring ideas and themes in letters and their relationship to Cicero’s life and political career, public/private nature of the letters and their history of publication The letters included: to Pompey, fam. 5.7 to Atticus, att. 2.18 to Curio, fam. 2.4 to ...

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4 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: - roman social hierarchy - patrician & plebeian families, nobiles, equites, idea of a novus homo, res republica and organisation of the state - including the offices of the cursus honorum, elections, tribal assembly, centuriate assembly, senate, government of the provinces, imperium (command), dictatorship, ideas and views of the populares (favouring the people) and the optimates/boni (aristocrats/good men), role and importance of patronage, amicitia (alliance) and inmicitia (personal ...

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4 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: - reasons for and significance of first triumvirate, his first consulship and its ‘popular’ programme, politics of the civil war ands Caesar’s reasons for pursuing it, his dictatorship, ‘anti-republican’ behaviour and attitude to the republic, his plans for ‘popular’ reform, reasons for his assassination, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Cato, Pompey, Crassus and reasons for these

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5 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: - influence of stoic philosophy on Cato’s political life, Cato’s allegiance to the optimates and how this position affected his legal and political activities, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Caesar, Publius Clodius Pulcher and reasons for these, his idealism compared to more pragmatic approaches to politics, his significance as a conservative in a changing political world

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5 pages

Written in 2023/2024

clempitrat

Notes on: - courtroom setting, partial delivery & subsequent publication of Verrine speeches, form, structure and style of Roman legal oratory - including devices such as anaphora, apostrophe, tricolon and hyperbole, ways in which the speech is typical of Roman rhetorical practice, themes of corruption, justice and necessity of upholding the state, portrayal of Verres and his corruption and how this is created

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Written in 2023/2024

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Notes on: - Cicero as orator - In Verrem 1 - Cicero and the res publica - Caesar as popularis and dictator - Cato and the politics of the optimates - Cicero as correspondent - Background of the late republic

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