Virgil Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

My revision notes contain nearly 200 pages of all of the information required to achieve an A* in the World of the Hero component of your OCR A-level Classical Civilisation exam. The optional epic choices included are the Iliad by Homer and the Aeneid by Virgil. My notes include a link to accompanying flashcards, as well as notes based on the textbook, quotes from each of the epics, explanations of the references to historical figures in the Aeneid, book summaries and modern scholarship for b...

4x Virgil's Aeneid A-level essays - ALL ACHIEVED FULL MARKS My best essays that got me my A* grade Includes: 1. The Aeneid's attitude to war is inconsistent: Virgil seems to praise and admire unrestrained slaughter, even while appearing (elsewhere) to advocate a quite different judgement.' To what extent do you agree? 2. "Aeneid” : just another exercise in crude Virgilian gender-stereotyping." To what extent do you agree? 3. ‘The Aeneid is only a poem of its time’. H...

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40+ page revision document for Virgil's Aeneid, covering all Books on OCR's World of the Hero spec. A book-by-book revision guide with quotes, analysis and direct secondary scholars' arguments and quotes necessary for the top marks. Each book has a summary, lots of analysed quotes and a study of the key themes that crop up across this course, making it a useful resource to study all potential themes that may appear in future exams.

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All essays achieved full marks - 30 mark essays - A* In depth analysis of Homer's Odyssey Includes 26 pages of content and essays 1000-2000 words long - themes that will come up in the exam 1. "Books 6 to 8 contribute little to the story of the Odyssey. They seem to simply fill time between Odysseus' escape from Calypso and the narration of his adventures." To what extent do you agree with this statement? 2. How important is story-telling in the Odyssey? 3. How far is Ody...

This is a 23 page document, featuring in depth notes of each of the 12 Books of Virgil's Aeneid, under the World of Hero course, of OCR's Classical Civilisation (A Level). The mini quotes featured, uses D. West's English translation goes in depth with Roman cultural contexts too- in terms of Augustan Propaganda. The document also features an array of relevant scholarship quotes needed for themes featured in the Aeneid(e.g supernatural, pietas, heroism, role of women etc). I have also made...

Speakers in Dante's Canto One Dante the Poet (narrates) Dante the Pilgrim (first calls out to Virgil) Virgil (Pilgrim's guide) Speakers in Dante's Cantos Two Dante the Poet Dante the Pilgrim Virgil Beatrice Mary Lucia Speakers in Dante's Cantos Three Gates of Hell Dante the Poet Dante the Pilgrim Virgil Charon Speakers in Dante's Cantos Four Dante the Poet Virgil Dante the Pilgrim Speakers in Dante's Cantos Five Dante the Poet Minos Virgil D...

what was Virgil's occupation? When and where did he live? Virgil was a poet in ancient Rome. Where did Virgil tell Dante that joy and its beginning can be found? Virgil told Dante that Joy, and it's beginning to be found on the mountain. Name the creatures that Dante finds in the woods. Dante finds a leopard, a lion, and a wolf in the woods. Which creature was like most horrible and why? The Wolf was the most horrible, since it was greedy and never satisfied; it repres...