2025 OCR AS Level Classical CivilisationH008/11 The World of the Hero
Combined Question Paper & Final Marking Scheme
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Tuesday 13 May 2025 – Afternoon
AS Level Classical Civilisation
H008/11 The World of the Hero
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• This question paper has two options:
Option 1: The Iliad
Option 2: The Odyssey
• Choose one option: answer all the questions in Section A and one question in Section B
for that option.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 65.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 12 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Option 1: The Iliad
Answer all the questions in Section A and one question in Section B.
Section A
Answer all the questions in this section.
Choose one of the following translations of the Iliad and answer the questions.
Passage A
Homer, Iliad, 9.369–388
‘Tell him all I say and tell him and tell him in public. Then the rest of the army can make
their feelings clear when he tries to cheat any other Greek. He is utterly shameless, but still the
dog cannot even bring himself to look me in the eye. He’ll get no advice or action from me. He
has cheated me and played me false. He won’t take me in again. Once is enough. He can go
to hell in his own good time. Zeus wise in counsel has removed his brains. 5
‘I hate his gifts and value him at one splinter. Not if he gave me ten or twenty times
as much as he possesses or could raise elsewhere, or all the revenues of Orchomenus or
Thebes – Egyptian Thebes where the houses are stuffed with treasure, and through every one
of a hundred gates two hundred warriors ride out with their chariots and horses – not if he gave
me gifts numerous as grains of sands or specks of dust, would Agamemnon ever win me over, 10
until he has paid back the whole heart-rending insult.’
Translation: E.V. Rieu
OR
Tell him openly all that I say, so the rest can take umbrage when he tries to cheat some
other Greek, shameless as he is. Yet not shameless enough to look me in the face! I shall
neither help by my advice or effort, so utterly has he cheated me and wronged me. He will not
fool me with his words again. So much for him. Let him go swiftly to perdition, since Zeus the
counsellor robs him of his wits. 5
As for his gifts they are hateful in my eyes, and not worth a hair. Even if he gave ten or
twenty times what he has, and raised levies elsewhere, though it were all the wealth that flows
to Orchomenus, or Egyptian Thebes, where the very houses are filled with treasure, and two
hundred warriors with horse and chariot sally out from its hundred gates, not if he gave me as
many gifts as the grains of sand or motes of dust, could he persuade me. First he must pay me 10
fully in kind for this shame that stings my heart.
Translation: A.S. Kline
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1 What had Agamemnon done to make Achilles so angry? [1]
2 Why did Agamemnon take this action? [1]
3 Why do you think Achilles is so angry about what Agamemnon has done to him? [1]
4 What does Achilles intend to do on the day after this meeting? [1]
5 Explain how Passage A is a vivid piece of writing.
Make four points and support each point with reference to Passage A. [8]
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Combined Question Paper & Final Marking Scheme
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Tuesday 13 May 2025 – Afternoon
AS Level Classical Civilisation
H008/11 The World of the Hero
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• This question paper has two options:
Option 1: The Iliad
Option 2: The Odyssey
• Choose one option: answer all the questions in Section A and one question in Section B
for that option.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 65.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 12 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
, © OCR 2025 [603/0671/3] OCR is an exempt Charity
DC (EV) 354629/2 Turn over
*1874879922*
, 2
Option 1: The Iliad
Answer all the questions in Section A and one question in Section B.
Section A
Answer all the questions in this section.
Choose one of the following translations of the Iliad and answer the questions.
Passage A
Homer, Iliad, 9.369–388
‘Tell him all I say and tell him and tell him in public. Then the rest of the army can make
their feelings clear when he tries to cheat any other Greek. He is utterly shameless, but still the
dog cannot even bring himself to look me in the eye. He’ll get no advice or action from me. He
has cheated me and played me false. He won’t take me in again. Once is enough. He can go
to hell in his own good time. Zeus wise in counsel has removed his brains. 5
‘I hate his gifts and value him at one splinter. Not if he gave me ten or twenty times
as much as he possesses or could raise elsewhere, or all the revenues of Orchomenus or
Thebes – Egyptian Thebes where the houses are stuffed with treasure, and through every one
of a hundred gates two hundred warriors ride out with their chariots and horses – not if he gave
me gifts numerous as grains of sands or specks of dust, would Agamemnon ever win me over, 10
until he has paid back the whole heart-rending insult.’
Translation: E.V. Rieu
OR
Tell him openly all that I say, so the rest can take umbrage when he tries to cheat some
other Greek, shameless as he is. Yet not shameless enough to look me in the face! I shall
neither help by my advice or effort, so utterly has he cheated me and wronged me. He will not
fool me with his words again. So much for him. Let him go swiftly to perdition, since Zeus the
counsellor robs him of his wits. 5
As for his gifts they are hateful in my eyes, and not worth a hair. Even if he gave ten or
twenty times what he has, and raised levies elsewhere, though it were all the wealth that flows
to Orchomenus, or Egyptian Thebes, where the very houses are filled with treasure, and two
hundred warriors with horse and chariot sally out from its hundred gates, not if he gave me as
many gifts as the grains of sand or motes of dust, could he persuade me. First he must pay me 10
fully in kind for this shame that stings my heart.
Translation: A.S. Kline
© OCR 2025 H008/11 Jun25
, 3
1 What had Agamemnon done to make Achilles so angry? [1]
2 Why did Agamemnon take this action? [1]
3 Why do you think Achilles is so angry about what Agamemnon has done to him? [1]
4 What does Achilles intend to do on the day after this meeting? [1]
5 Explain how Passage A is a vivid piece of writing.
Make four points and support each point with reference to Passage A. [8]
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