***Classical Studies Before/After***

shootie

Anyone taking on this beast of an exam?

The Pheasant

Yep, what you studying?

The Pheasant

Well this was a useful thread...

shootie

The Pheasant wrote: »

Yep, what you studying?

Aeneid/Odyssey/Oedipus the king/Medea/Alexander/Roman A+A.

The Drama/Epics are easy enough, just like English and Macbeth basically. I would of preferred if my class did another historical sort of topic though like the late Roman republic.

ClassicsStuff

Anyone have any ideas of predictions for Alexander the great? I really don't want to go over the entire book -.-

shootie

ClassicsStuff wrote: »

Anyone have any ideas of predictions for Alexander the great? I really don't want to go over the entire book -.-

You should be pretty safe if you learn the battles/seiges, Gaugamela came up last year. It's nigh impossible to predict Classics at higher level.

The Pheasant

I'm doing:

Athens at war (2 questions hopefully)

Medea and Oedipus the King

A stand alone question The Odyssey

The Republic (probably one question but maybe 2 if I don't like one of the drama questions)

The Pheasant

Anyone any predictions for Athens at war?

ClassicsStuff

I've done issus, Thebes, death of callisthenes and hephaistion so far. Anything else?

shootie

ClassicsStuff wrote: »

I've done issus, Thebes, death of callisthenes and hephaistion so far. Anything else?

My teacher seemed to emphasise the importance of learning the early battles with the Thebans/Tribalians etc. so i'd have a look at those too. Maybe the Hydaspes/Granicus.

The Pheasant

How much will you guys be writing per essay?

ClassicsStuff

The Pheasant wrote: »

How much will you guys be writing per essay?

About 2-3 pages?

shootie

ClassicsStuff wrote: »

About 2-3 pages?

My teacher said 4, but that would be nigh impossible in the time allocated to do 6x4.

I'd do around 3.5 for Epic/Drama. Maybe less on historical topics if the questions are nice.

The Pheasant

shootie wrote: »

My teacher said 4, but that would be nigh impossible in the time allocated to do 6x4.

I'd do around 3.5 for Epic/Drama. Maybe less on historical topics if the questions are nice.

****ing hell, seriously? Jesus I'm ****ed...I'd say I'll be able to write about 2 and a half pages on most things

wow exuberant

Anyone have notes on Pompeii town plan> I have the map but no notes with it

ClassicsStuff

What're the chances of the role of the chorus coming up for Oedipus?

The Pheasant

I'd like Chorus, or Creon

ClassicsStuff

Well that was the nicest classics paper I've ever seen

The Pheasant

Yeah that was lovely, I although I didn't do that well in the Odyssey question - if it wasn't for that I'd be confident in an A1

wow exuberant

**** **** **** ****


I did a1 answers on every section, did the erechtheion with perfect answers then decided that no, wait, the temple is actually the Parthenon and changed my answers.


****

The Pheasant

^^ are you saying f uck in those stars or are they just general stars?

wow exuberant

The Pheasant wrote: »

^^ are you saying f uck in those stars or are they just general stars?

im saying f u ck lol

The Pheasant

haha fair enough, if you had A1 answers in all the others you'll be fine - or do you like NEED an A1 in classics to get your course?

wow exuberant

The Pheasant wrote: »

haha fair enough, if you had A1 answers in all the others you'll be fine - or do you like NEED an A1 in classics to get your course?

Nope im doing computer science which is 335 or something, but I kinda wanted an A in classics just cos lol, I think I probably got a b3, maybe got like 20 marks out of 50 in temples for the fact I got the location and half the materials right. Also in the description I did I wrote about stuff you could see in the picture like the Karyatids and the 6 ionic collumns, the steps, windows looking into the preneous and the continuous frieze of centuars vs lapiths so I might get some marks.

The Pheasant

Ah well you're grand so (you'll always have an A in my book if that makes you feel better )

wow exuberant

Well, got a C1. **** lol