LC Classical Studies study plan

Build a one-page timeline linking Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman imperial phases to at least six named monuments so that every date you memorise has a political anchor.

Sketch from memory the ground plan of the Athenian Acropolis and label the Propylaia, Parthenon and Erechtheion, then correct your sketch against a handbook plan.

List ten diagnostic features of Greek vs Roman temple design (column order, podium, frontal emphasis, materials) and test yourself on them twice this week.

Write 150 words on how Athenian democracy and the Delian League funded the Periclean building programme, citing two specific buildings as evidence.

Identify from description alone the six canonical sculpture works (Kritios Boy, Riace bronzes, Doryphoros, Aphrodite of Knidos, Laocoon, Augustus of Prima Porta) and state period, medium and one stylistic marker for each.

Practise the four-step visual analysis routine (identify, describe, contextualise, evaluate) on three unseen images in under 12 minutes each.

Compare Greek black-figure and red-figure pottery techniques and explain what each reveals about production and patronage.

Define 15 archaeological terms (stratigraphy, assemblage, provenance, context, typology, etc.) and use five of them in a written description of a single excavation.

Map the plot of the Iliad and Odyssey onto a single page, marking the books where divine intervention changes the human action.

Summarise the structure and staging conventions of Attic tragedy and Old Comedy, naming the parodos, episodes, stasima and exodos.

Read one complete tragedy (e.g. Medea or Antigone) and write a 250-word analysis of how the playwright uses a single divine or moral conflict.

List the twelve Olympians with their Greek and Roman names, principal attributes and one myth each, then self-test from memory.

Trace the Roman constitution from monarchy to Republic to Principate, noting the powers of consul, tribune, senate and princeps.

Explain the civic function of Roman religion (pontifices, augury, festival calendar, imperial cult) with two concrete examples.

Compare Greek and Roman attitudes to myth as recorded by Hesiod and Ovid, using one passage from each.

Answer 20 short-answer recall questions on dates, offices and deities under timed conditions.

Summarise the core positions of the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in a comparison table of method, subject and goal.

Explain three Socratic arguments from a Platonic dialogue and identify the elenchus at work in each.

Compare Stoic and Epicurean ethics on the good life, and link each to a Roman author (Seneca, Epictetus, Lucretius).

Write a 300-word commentary on a short philosophical passage, distinguishing the argument from the literary presentation.

Trace three receptions of classical material (e.g. Renaissance sculpture, neoclassical architecture, modern film or graphic novel) and state what each adapts and what it changes.

Analyse how a modern political or artistic movement has invoked Greece or Rome, and evaluate the uses and abuses of that claim.

Practise source criticism on three short translated texts, assessing bias, genre, audience and reliability.

Draft a 10-point checklist for evaluating material evidence, then apply it to a museum object you can describe from memory.

Consolidate the three heaviest domains by re-reading your notes and producing a single condensed revision sheet per domain.

Answer a full mixed-topic practice set under exam timing and log every error by domain and error type.

Re-teach two weak topics aloud in five minutes each, without notes, to expose gaps.

Revisit your week 1 timeline and correct any dates or attributions you now know were wrong.

Run two full mock papers under strict timing and mark them against the domain weightings.

Target your lowest-scoring domain with a focused 90-minute drill and re-test it.

Rehearse a 5-minute spoken response to an unseen visual source, covering identification, context and significance.

Write a final one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation per domain and a fallback approach for unfamiliar sources.