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Oxford Cambridge and RSAMonday 4 October 2021 – Morning
A Level Classical Civilisation
H408/11 The World of the Hero
Time allowed: 2 hours 20 minutes
* 8 9 5 2 6 7 7 6 8 6 *
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 three sections:
Section A – Homer: Answer either all the questions on Iliad or all the questions on
Odyssey.
Section B – Virgil: Answer all the questions.
Section C – Homer and Virgil: Answer Question 7 and one question from Questions 8, 9
and 10.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 100.
• 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 8 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2021 [603/0726/2] OCR is an exempt Charity
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Section A: Homer
Answer all the questions on the text you have studied.
Homer’s Iliad
Choose one of the following translations of the Iliad and answer the questions which follow.
Passage A: Homer, Iliad, 22.440–472
Andromache was at work in a corner of her lofty house on a web of purple cloth to be
folded double, and weaving flowers into it. She had just called to the lovely-haired waiting-
women in her house to put a large cauldron on the fire so that Hector could have a hot bath
when he came home from the battle – the innocent. She never dreamed that, far away from
any baths, grey-eyed Athene had killed him at Achilles’ hands. 5
But now the grief and lamentation at the battlements reached her ears. A tremor went
through her and she dropped the shuttle on the floor. She called again her waiting-women:
‘Come with me, two of you: I must see what has happened. That was my husband’s mother
I heard, and she is a reticent woman. My heart is my mouth: I am paralysed with fear. Some
disaster is threatening the house of Priam. May I never hear such news, but I am terrified 10
that godlike Achilles has caught my daring Hector by himself outside the town and chased
him out over the plain; indeed, that he has already put an end to that fatal overconfidence
of his. Because Hector would never hang back with the crowd – he always advanced far
ahead of the rest, second to none in his courage.’
With these words Andromache, with palpitating heart, rushed out of the house like a mad 15
woman, and her waiting-women went with her. When she came to the tower where the men
had gathered in a crowd, she stood on the wall, searched the plain and saw her husband
being dragged off in front of the town and the swift horses hauling him unceremoniously
away towards the Greek ships.
Black night came down and engulfed Andromache’s eyes. She crashed backwards, 20
fainting. The bright head-dress flew far from her head, with the headband, the cap, the
woven braids and headscarf that golden Aphrodite had given her on the day when Hector
of the flashing helmet, after giving an untold bride-price, came to fetch her from her father
Eëtion’s house.
Trans: E.V. Rieu
© OCR 2021 H408/11 Oct21
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