News and updates

Classical Greek GCSE

The following material for the exams in 2025 and 2026 is available on the course dashboard:

Prose Literature A: Tales from Herodotus Sections XIa (First Capture of Babylon), XII (Rebuff to Darius), XIII (The Babylonian Wife Market), XIVb (Megacles’marriage)
Literature and Culture – topics are Women in Ancient Greece and Athenian Society
Please note: students planning to take the exams in either 2025 and 2026 will have access to the entire content of the course on purchase.

Latin GCSE

The following material for the exams in 2025 and 2026 is available on the course dashboard:

Prose Literature B
Literature and Culture – topics are Entertainment and Myths and Beliefs
Please note: students planning to take the exams in either 2025 and 2026 will have access to the entire content of the course on purchase.

New components for Classical Civilisation GCSE

We have exciting news!

We have recently added the following component options to our Classical Civilisation GCSE course:

Roman City Life (J199/22)

War and Warfare (J199/23)

We now offer:

Component Group 1: Myth and Religion

Component Group 2:

The Homeric World

Roman City Life

War and Warfare

Please note that students are only required to study one of the above options for Component Group 2.

The addition of the new components will give students a choice for Component 2.

Details of the content of these components can be read in the OCR specification here. It is particularly useful to look at Page 5 of the specification and then to scroll down to view the content of the components.

New components for Classical Civilisation GCSE

We have exciting news!

We are adding the following components to our Classical Civilisation GCSE course:

Component 2

Roman City Life (J199/22)

War and Warfare (J199/23)

We currently offer:

Component 1: Myth and Religion

Component 2: The Homeric World

Please note that students are only required to study one of these components for Component 2. The addition of the new components will give students a choice for Component 2.

The content for the above components will be added during September and October.

If you are planning to start the Classical Civilisation GCSE course, you will have access on purchase to the entire content for Component 1.

You will also have access to the entire content of ‘The Homeric World’ for Component 2. If you wish to study either “Roman City Life’ or ‘War and Warfare’, this material will be available during September and October.

You will be able to make a start with Component 1 as soon as you purchase the course.

We will post here when the new content is available. Students who are currently following the Classical Civilisation GCSE course will see the content in their course menu bar.