Greek
As in Latin, students taking the A Level Greek course divide their time between language and literature. It can be a real thrill, when language skills start to improve significantly, to find that it is possible to read such ancient texts, in a different alphabet from our own, with relative ease. The need fully to understand how language works is a great asset for the study of other subjects as well as Greek and students quickly find that they have a more penetrating understanding of everything they read.
We study as wide a range of texts as we can. Poetry can be the epics of Homer, or the drama of the tragedians and comedians; prose can be the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides or the philosophy of Plato. Whatever the individual taste, there will be something in the set texts which appeals and since they mark the beginnings, from which all our literature and thought processes arise, they can make clear much about our own world.
Those of us who have had the chance to learn Greek quickly find that it becomes an obsession which lasts for life. Moreover, the more one studies, the richer and more rewarding the subject becomes. It is the aim of the Department to start its students on that journey of a lifetime.
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AS/A2 results
Thursday 19th August