Clempitrat

Notes on: - reasons for and significance of first triumvirate, his first consulship and its ‘popular’ programme, politics of the civil war ands Caesar’s reasons for pursuing it, his dictatorship, ‘anti-republican’ behaviour and attitude to the republic, his plans for ‘popular’ reform, reasons for his assassination, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Cato, Pompey, Crassus and reasons for these

Notes on: - influence of stoic philosophy on Cato’s political life, Cato’s allegiance to the optimates and how this position affected his legal and political activities, his relationships with other political figures - including Cicero, Caesar, Publius Clodius Pulcher and reasons for these, his idealism compared to more pragmatic approaches to politics, his significance as a conservative in a changing political world

Notes on: - Cicero’s correspondents and his relationship to them, form, structure and style of Roman letter writing, extent to which the letters can be informal or formal in tone, the choices of language and devices which create this, recurring ideas and themes in letters and their relationship to Cicero’s life and political career, public/private nature of the letters and their history of publication The letters included: to Pompey, fam. 5.7 to Atticus, att. 2.18 to Curio, fam. 2.4 to ...

Notes on: - roman social hierarchy - patrician & plebeian families, nobiles, equites, idea of a novus homo, res republica and organisation of the state - including the offices of the cursus honorum, elections, tribal assembly, centuriate assembly, senate, government of the provinces, imperium (command), dictatorship, ideas and views of the populares (favouring the people) and the optimates/boni (aristocrats/good men), role and importance of patronage, amicitia (alliance) and inmicitia (personal ...

Notes on themes of: revenge, madness, gender & sexuality, death and appearance & reality

Notes on all of the characters within Hamlet except the attendants/similar people who do not have a characterisation

Notes on: - pots and vases - the nature of tragedy - the nature of old comedy - drama and theatre in ancient Athenian society - literary techniques, structure of the plays and dramatic conventions - social and political themes in comedy - social, political and religious themes in tragedy

Notes on all the prescribe sources for the OCR A-level, with dates, where it was found and information

Notes on: - origins of tragedy and how it developed during the 5th century BC - including its relationship to satyr plays, the contribution of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, use of actors and the chorus, use of masks, costumes and props, common themes of tragedy, relationship between the cultural context and social matter of the plays, Aristotle’s theories about tragedies - including peripiteia (reversal of fortune), hamartia (tragic mistake) and catharsis (purging of emotions)

Notes on: - origins of comedy and how it developed during the 5th century BC - including the contributions of Aristophanes, use of actors and the chorus, use of masks, costumes and props, types of humour, comic techniques and effects, common themes of comedy, relationship between the cultural context and subject matter of the plays