PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included.


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The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2022–24 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:

AS and A Level Groups 1&3

Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 19 to 6.32
Plato, Symposium, 189c2 to 194e2

Homer, Odyssey 1, lines 213–444
Sophocles, Ajax, lines 1–133, 284–347, 748–783

A Level Groups 2&4

Thucydides, Histories, Book 6, 47 to 50.1 and 53 to 61
Plato, Symposium, 201d to end of 206b
Plutarch, Alcibiades, X.1.1 to XVI.5

Homer, Odyssey 6, lines 85–331
Sophocles, Ajax, lines 430–582, 646–692, 815–865
Aristophanes, Clouds, lines 1–242

Resources are available on the Companion Website.

Simon Allcock is Head of Classics & Humanities at Wellington College, UK.

Sam Baddeley teaches Classics and is Head of Drama at Winchester College, UK.

John Claughton taught Classics at Eton for 17 years and was Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham from 2006 to 2016, UK.

Alastair Harden teaches Classics at Bedales School, UK.

Sarah Harden is Lecturer in Classics at Oxford University, UK.

Carl Hope is Head of Classics at Durham School, UK.

Jo Lashly is Head of Classics at Shrewsbury High School, UK.