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Classics resources
Set books
I produce running vocabularies for set texts. They are sold at a fixed
price and you can print copies as required.
The A Levels (and some IB) cost £36 and GCSEs £26.
I have a huge back-list of nearly all the set-texts for the last twenty
years, and a few more. I hope that this will be published on my site
soon. Some students may want to read beyond the syllabus. If there
is something you are looking for, do ask.
June 2023
2025-26
As at 12 June 2023 I have made a good start.
A Levels
Latin
I have finished Cicero Pro Caelio Group 1, Tacitus Annals XII Group1,
Aeneid 2 Groups 3 and 4, Juvenal 6 Group 3. I intend to do Pro Caelio
Group 2 next. Annals XIV, Juvenal Group 4 will come later.
Greek
I have finished Herodotus 1 Group 1 and Plato Republic I Group 1,
Iliad 16 Group 3, Iliad 24 Group 4, Hippolytus Group 3. Hippolytus
Group 4 needs some revision. Herodotus 1 Group 2 and Plato Republic
1 Group 2 will come later. Frogs needs a little revision.
GCSE
Latin
Virgil Aeneid 1, 12-123
Greek
I have finished Homer Iliad 6, 370-413, 429-502 and Tales from
Herodotus (XIa,XII, XIII, XIVb). Euripides Medea, lines 230-291, 358-
409 needs revision.
May 2022
2023-24
I have finished Annals IV Group 1 and Group 2, Virgil Aeneid XII Group
3 and Group 4, Catullus Group 3 and 4, Pro Cluentio (Murder at
Larinum) Group 1 and Group 2. I am not doing Livy 1 and Ovid
Heroides
I have finished Thucydides VI Group 1 and Group 2, Homer Odyssey 1
Group 3, Odyssey 6 Group 4 (actually, I did the whole book), Ajax
Group 3 and 4, Symposium Group 1 and 2. Aristophanes Clouds Group
4. I am not doing Plutarch Alcibiades.
GCSE Latin: Virgil Aeneid VI
GCSE Greek: finished - Tales from Herodotus, Martyrdom of Socrates,
Homer Odyssey 7, Euripides: Bacchae
IB
Virgil: Aeneid 2: 195-227, 370-558,730-804
Virgil: Aeneid 12.614–952, Eclogues 1, 6
Catullus: Carmina 2A, 13, 35, 40, 51, 62, 67, 70, 75, 87, 96, 99, 110
Catullus: Poem 64, lines 47-207
Horace: Carmina 1.5, 13, 22; 3.26; 4.1
Ovid: Amores 1.1, 3, 4, 6
Ovid: Amores I (1-3, 9, 11,12,15)
Pliny: Letters VII.20, IX.3, IX.23, IX.36
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War 6, 45-53
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War 7.73–84, 85–87