CA London Greek and Latin Reading Competition

THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

LONDON GREEK & LATIN READING COMPETITION 2016

The 2016 competition will be held on TUESDAY 15th MARCH at Queen’s College, 43-49 Harley Street London W1G 8BT (parking is not available at the school). The competition will be held in a single round. The event will begin at 2:00 pm and finish at about 4.30 pm.

We will end with two short talks on ‘Choral song in Antigone’ and ‘The Gates of Sleep in Aeneid Book 6’, by our judges. These are Dr Armand D’Angour of Jesus College, Oxford, who has recently been researching the sounds of Greek music and poetry, and James Morwood of Wadham College, Oxford, the author of many Greek and Latin text books.

Schools and individuals not entering candidates for the competition, but who would like their staff or pupils to learn more about spoken Latin and Greek, perhaps with a view to entering another year, are warmly encouraged to attend, as are friends and parents of the candidates. Home educated pupils are also invited to enter any of these sections.

We will break for tea after the first three sections, from about 3:00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.

The competition is in six sections, with ONE ENTRY only from each school per section, as follows:

Beginners’ Latin, open to pupils who have not yet completed 5 terms of Latin (either an individual or group of 3 candidates): Cambridge Latin Course, Book II, St 14, page 32, Quintus advenit, including all the narrator’s words.
Beginners’ Greek, open to pupils who have not yet completed 5 terms of Greek (either an individual or a pair of candidates): Greek to GCSE Part II, John Taylor, pp. 12, 13, Socrates in Comedy (1)
Pre-GCSE Latin, open to pupils who have not yet taken GCSE in Latin: Virgil’s Aeneid Book 9, lines 420 – 437.
Greek Dialogue, open to an individual or a pair of candidates at any stage: Sophocles’ Antigone, lines 78 – 99
Open Latin, open to one candidate at any stage: Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 3, lines 710 – 733
Greek Chorus, open to a group of six to 10 pupils at any stage: Sophocles’ Antigone, lines 1115 – 1154
N.B. No candidate may be entered for more than one Latin section.

Entries should be sent using the form below to the organiser, with the fee of £25 per school, by Friday 5th February 2015.

There will be no charge for non-competing schools.

Commemorative prizes will be awarded.

Please note: copies of the passages marked with macrons, and the metre for the chorus, as well as unmarked passages, will be sent to all schools and individuals who apply. The macrons and metre will not be included in the copies from which the candidates will read at the competition .

I should like to enter candidates for the following sections (please tick, or indicate by writing 0 if you wish to attend without entering candidates this year):

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Please mark with a cross to select method of payment (fee only required if you are entering the competition):

I enclose a cheque for the £25 (please make payable to Queen’s College)

I have paid by BACS/direct bank transfer.

For electronic payments:

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Send or email replies to:

Mrs Sarah Harrison

Head of Classics

Queen’s College

43 – 49 Harley Street

London

W1G 8BT

Tel: 020 7 291 7033 e-mail sharrison@qcl.org.uk