GCSE Classical Civilisation
[OCR Guided learning hours stated as 120-140.]
AQA1
Summary of each plus similarities and
differences (e.g. demands of content
and assessment)
Unit 1 Greece & Rome: stories and
histories
A Homer, Odyssey
B Livy, Stories of Rome
C Athens and Sparta
D History of Roman Britain
OCR2
Unit A351 City Life in the Classical
World (2 options)
1 Athens
2 Rome
Unit A352 Epic and Myth (2 options)
1 Homer, The Odyssey
Unit A353 Community Life in the
Classical World (2 options)
1 Sparta
Unit A354 Culture and Society in the
Classical World (controlled
assessment)
6 Roman Britain
Unit 2 Greece & Rome: Drama and
Life
A Greek Tragedy and Drama Festivals
1
2
AQA content set out as in the specification.
OCR content set out alongside its AQA ‘equivalent’ topic.
B Plautus, The Pot of Gold and The
Brothers Menaechmus
C Mycenaean Civilisation
D Social Life in Rome in The First
Century AD
Unit 3 Greece & Rome: Conflict and
Carnage
A Herodotus, The Persian Wars
B Virgil, Aeneid
C The Ancient Olympic Games and the
Panathenaia
D Pompeii and Herculaneum
Unit 4 Greece & Rome: An Evaluative
Study (controlled assessment)
A Iliad
B Greek Comedy
C Athenian Pottery
D Athenian Democracy
E Ovid Metamorphoses
F Catullus
G Nero
H Archaeology of Roman Britain
Unit A353 Community Life in the
Classical World
2 Pompeii
Unit A354 Culture and Society in the
Classical World (controlled
assessment)
3 The Olympic Games
4 Virgil The Aeneid
Unit 352 Epic and Myth
2 Ovid Metamorphoses
Unit A354 Culture and Society in the
Classical World (controlled
assessment)
1 Sophocles Antigone
2 Aristophanes Lysistrata
4 Pliny Letters