klassieke talen, 2007 - Stilus

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commented in the classroom with their teacher during the year. They
have got 30’ to prepare one of these texts, which is chosen by a
teacher they meet for the first time. The oral exam in it self lasts 20’:
it consists in three parts : reading and commenting the whole text,
translating 3 or 4 lines, and finally comparing two translations of
another unknown text as a bonus.
For the advanced written exam, students translate an unseen text of
approximately 200 words, for the "normal" exam of 140 words.
The examenees are allowed to use a dictionary. Other resources are
usually not permitted.
Because of the fact that in several Bundesländer the teacher choses
the examination text according to what he/she studied with the
students), you can find texts by many Latin authors including
Cicero, Livy, Seneca, Pliny, Ovid, Catullus, Phaedrus, Tacitus,
Augustin, and Erasmus.
Translation is compulsory part of the examination on all levels, also
in final exam (duration: 4 hours); resource: a dictionary.
Authors:
Latin: 3e year liceo classico: Virgil, Caesar or Sallust, Cicero;
4e year: Lucretius, Catullus, Horace, Cicero or Livy;
5e year: Tacitus, Seneca or St. Augustine, Plautus or Terence.
Greek: 3e year: Homer and historic works;
4e year: lyric poets and Plato;
5e year: one tragedy and one oration.
In liceo scientifico:
Latin: 3e year: Caesar, Catullus or Ovid;
4e year: selection from Virgil, Horace, Sallust etc;
5e year: Cicero, Lucretius.
In every university district, a selection of authors and/or text is
chosen for baccalaureate pupils. They have to translate a text that
they sometimes had seen yet.
The length depends on the kind of text: Latin prose from 30 up to
45/50 words; Latin poetry from 3 up to 5 verses; Greek prose from
25 up to 40 words; Greek verse from 2 up to 4 verses.
The use of dictionaries in Latin and Greek is always allowed.
The most usual Greek-Spanish Lexicons contain a grammatical
appendix that pupils normally can use. The scholar Latin-Spanish
dictionaries also contain a grammatical appendix ; pupils can use
them in some university districts.
Authors:
Greek: Eutropius, Nepos, Apollodorus. Official program suggests:
Latin: authors of 1e century BCE, 1e century CE (not including
poetry), medieval Latin.
Greek: prose authors van 5e and 4e century BCE and Pausanias,
Plutarch, Apollodorus, Modern Greek (Byzantine or koinè).
In Latin B the texts can be: Gesta Romanorum, Versio Vulgata,
Alcuin, Pippin, Catullus, Martial.
In Latin C: Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Pliny.
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