London Greek and Latin Reading Competition

THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

LONDON GREEK & LATIN READING COMPETITION 2014

 

The 2014 competition will be held on THURSDAY 6th 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 by about 5.00 pm.

As a new venture this year, the afternoon will start with a brief example and explanation of how to read Greek accents by John Hazel, former Head of Classics at City of London School for Boys. We will end with two short talks by our judges, Dr Armand D’Angour and Dr Jonathan Katz, of Oxford University, on Words and music in Sophocles’ Oedipus and Sound and Feeling in Ovid, who will be focusing on the current OCR set texts and the authors’ use of sound and metre. For this reason, schools 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.

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, as follows:

1. Beginners’ Latin, open to ONE ENTRY only from each school by not more than 3 pupils who have not yet completed 5 terms of Latin: Cambridge Latin Course, 4^th Edition, Book II, St 20, page 139 astrologus victor, part II.

 2. Beginners’ Greek, open to ONE candidate (from each school) who has not yet completed 5 terms of Greek: Theocritus, XI, 19-33 (Oxford Classical Text)

3. Pre-GCSE Latin, open to ONE candidate from each school, of any age, who has not yet taken GCSE in Latin: Virgil, Aeneid XII 887-905. (Two centuries of Latin Poetry, ed. Kennedy & Davis, BCP)

 4. Greek Dialogue, open to one or TWO candidates per school: Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus  316-341 (Oxford Classical Text)

 5. Open Latin, open to one candidate of any age per school: Ovid, Amores III.2 1-18 (Ovid, Amores III, A Selection, ed. Inglehart & Radice, BCP)

 6.  Greek Chorus, open to a group of six or more pupils per school: Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 151-177 (Oxford Classical Text)

NB  No candidate may be entered for more than one Latin section.

Please note: schools attending the afternoon will be sent copies of the passages, marked with macrons and metre, and their translations, but these will not be included in the copies from which the candidates will read at the competition. A copy of the rules will be included in this mailing.

Entries should be sent using the form below to the organiser, with the fee of £15, by Fri 7^th Feb 2014.

There will be no charge for non-competing schools.

Prizes will be awarded to the winners of each section and runner-up prizes may be awarded in sections where there is a sufficient number of entries.  A further prize may be awarded in section 1 only, at the judges’ discretion, to deserving candidates from a school which has not entered previously or not since the distant past.

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LONDON CLASSICAL READING COMPETITION Thursday 6^th March  2014

 

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):

 

Section:  1………..   2……….    3………..    4………..    5……….    6………..

 

Please tick to select method of payment (fee only required if you are entering the competition):

I enclose a cheque for the £15 (please make payable to Queen’s College)

 

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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