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Eleven courses · sixty-four modules · the complete specification · taught by Latin authors and language-pedagogy specialists
The complete WJEC Eduqas GCSE Latin specification (Version 6, December 2024), taught by simulacra of the Latin authors, grammarians, and language pedagogues who know the material from inside. The series is organised around the three components of the qualification: Component 1 (Latin Language, 50%) is taught by Magister Simulacrum — a dedicated Socratic language-teaching simulacrum — across five language courses. Component 2 (the literature themes, 30%) is taught by Livy Simulacrum and Horace Simulacrum on the 2027-2029 prescribed themes. Component 3A (narratives, 20% for Route A students) is taught by Livy Simulacrum on Hannibal's crossing of the Alps and Virgil Simulacrum on Hercules and Cacus. Component 3B (Roman Civilisation, 20% for Route B students) is taught by Seneca Simulacrum on slavery and Ovid Simulacrum on Roman festivals and religion.
The courses are independently enrolable — a student revising for a specific component or topic can take only those courses, while a student preparing for the full exam can work through the whole series. Route A students (the narrative option) need courses 1-7 and 8-9; Route B students (the civilisation option) need courses 1-7 and 10-11. Most Component 1 tutorials are useful for either route.
Magister Simulacrum · with Rhetorica Ciceroniana Simulacrum and Aranoffian Systems Simulacrum as guest leads
The logic of cases and the five declensions. Adjectives of all standard types with their comparatives and superlatives. Regular adverbs. The pronouns listed in the Defined Vocabulary List.
Open course →Magister Simulacrum
The indicative active across all five tenses (present, future, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect) and all four conjugations, including the third-io subtype. Personal endings as the spine that runs through every tense.
Open course →Magister Simulacrum
Indicative passive and deponent (third person), imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive, present active infinitives, present and perfect participles, active imperatives, and the six irregular verbs (sum, possum, eo, fero, volo, nolo).
Open course →Rhetorica Ciceroniana Simulacrum · with Magister Simulacrum
Subordinate clauses (relative, purpose, result, temporal, causal, concessive). Indirect statement, questions, and commands. Conditional sentences (present and past open). Prohibitions. Participles in use. Case syntax.
Open course →Magister Simulacrum
The Section A momentum test — reading continuous Latin narrative. Translation strategy Latin into English. The 440-word Defined Vocabulary List. The Section B options: English-into-Latin composition and the alternative grammar analysis task.
Open course →Livy Simulacrum · with Sallust Simulacrum on Catiline, Tacitus Simulacrum and Suetonius Simulacrum on the emperors
Roman virtus and its inverse. Heroes of the early Republic (Horatius, Cincinnatus, Mucius Scaevola). Villains of the late Republic (Catiline). Complex figures of the early Empire. Source materials. The extended evaluative response.
Open course →Horace Simulacrum · with Catullus Simulacrum on invitation poetry, Pliny Simulacrum the Elder on food
The Roman cena as social institution. Horace Simulacrum Simulacrum's satire on the pretentious dinner (Satires 2.8). Catullan invitation poetry. Food and natural history (Pliny Simulacrum the Elder). Source materials from Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Open course →Livy Simulacrum
Livy Simulacrum Simulacrum's prose account from Book 21 of Ab Urbe Condita. The Second Punic War. The narrative structure of the Alpine crossing. Livy Simulacrum Simulacrum's Latin style — participial compression, historical present, direct speech, pathetic fallacy.
Open course →Virgil Simulacrum
The episode from Aeneid Book 8. The topographical hinge between Odyssean and Iliadic halves of the poem. The narrative itself. Virgilian hexameter technique. The four simultaneous registers of Virgilian reading.
Open course →Seneca Simulacrum · with Pliny Simulacrum the Younger, Tacitus Simulacrum, Suetonius Simulacrum
The routes to enslavement. Lives of urban, rural, and public slaves. Rights and responsibilities within the slave system. Manumission and the freedman class. Resistance, revolt, and the Pedanius Secundus affair. Extended response.
Open course →Ovid Simulacrum · with Cicero Simulacrum on the priesthoods, Pliny Simulacrum the Younger on private religion
Major festivals (Lupercalia, Bona Dea, Saturnalia). Temples and religious buildings (Ara Pacis, Pantheon, Temple of Vesta). Priests, priestesses, and religious officials. Sacrifice and offerings. Household religion. Honouring the dead. Extended response.
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