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OCR OXFORD CAMBRIDGE AND RSA GCSE
CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE
QUESTIONS JUNE 2025
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Source A
A husband on trial for murder describes married life as part of his defence speech
Athenians, when I decided to get married and took my wife to my home, to start with I behaved in
such a way that I neither harassed her nor gave her too much freedom to do whatever she liked,
and watched over her as far as I could, and paid attention to her, as you would expect. But when
my child was born, I began to trust her and I handed over everything that I had to her thinking this
to be the greatest indication of our closeness.
To begin with, Athenians, she was the best of all women, for she was an intelligent and thrifty
housekeeper, and she arranged everything precisely. But when my mother died, her passing
proved to be the cause of all my troubles. For when my wife was taking part in the funeral
procession, she was seen by this fellow, and after a time she was seduced. For he kept watch for
the slave girl who used to walk to the marketplace and managed to corrupt her with his clever talk.
First, gentlemen (for I must explain this to you as well), my little house is on two floors, with the
top floor equal to the ground floor, corresponding to the women’s quarters and the men’s quarters.
When we had the child, his mother breast-fed him, and, so that she would not run the risk of falling
when she went down the ladder whenever she had to have a wash, I lived upstairs and the women
lived downstairs. And this is what we had got used to, so that often my wife would go downstairs
with the child to feed him so that he wouldn’t cry. And this went on for a long time, and I never
suspected anything, but was so stupid that I thought that my wife was the most chaste in the city.
Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 6–10
© OCR 2025 J292/06/INS Jun25
for more: tyrionpapers.com
Monday 9 June 2025 – Afternoon
GCSE (9–1) Classical Greek
J292/06 Literature and Culture
Insert
Time allowed: 1 hour
*2040055903*
INSTRUCTIONS
• Do not send this Insert for marking. Keep it in the centre or recycle it.
INFORMATION
• The questions tell you which source you need to use.
• This document has 8 pages.
OCR OXFORD CAMBRIDGE AND RSA GCSE
CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE
QUESTIONS JUNE 2025
© OCR 2025 [601/8123/0] OCR is an exempt Charity
DC (JP/SW) 355293/2 Turn over
for more: tyrionpapers.com
, 2
Source A
A husband on trial for murder describes married life as part of his defence speech
Athenians, when I decided to get married and took my wife to my home, to start with I behaved in
such a way that I neither harassed her nor gave her too much freedom to do whatever she liked,
and watched over her as far as I could, and paid attention to her, as you would expect. But when
my child was born, I began to trust her and I handed over everything that I had to her thinking this
to be the greatest indication of our closeness.
To begin with, Athenians, she was the best of all women, for she was an intelligent and thrifty
housekeeper, and she arranged everything precisely. But when my mother died, her passing
proved to be the cause of all my troubles. For when my wife was taking part in the funeral
procession, she was seen by this fellow, and after a time she was seduced. For he kept watch for
the slave girl who used to walk to the marketplace and managed to corrupt her with his clever talk.
First, gentlemen (for I must explain this to you as well), my little house is on two floors, with the
top floor equal to the ground floor, corresponding to the women’s quarters and the men’s quarters.
When we had the child, his mother breast-fed him, and, so that she would not run the risk of falling
when she went down the ladder whenever she had to have a wash, I lived upstairs and the women
lived downstairs. And this is what we had got used to, so that often my wife would go downstairs
with the child to feed him so that he wouldn’t cry. And this went on for a long time, and I never
suspected anything, but was so stupid that I thought that my wife was the most chaste in the city.
Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes 6–10
© OCR 2025 J292/06/INS Jun25
for more: tyrionpapers.com
