Myth and Religion - Unit 4, Lesson 4: Plutarch's Parallel Lives (Comparing Theseus and Romulus)

KS4 lesson for Unit 4: Plutarch’s Parallel Lives (Comparing Theseus and Romulus), in Component 1: Myth and Religion, of the OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE. The lesson objective is to study the prescribed literary source of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, considering accuracy and reliability, in the biographer’s comparison of the lives of Theseus and Romulus across six different categories.

Accessible for all ability groups and the resources are easily differentiated for more and less academically able students.

This lesson includes…

• Introduction to Plutarch, with worksheet, focusing on his reliability and accuracy.
• In-depth study of the prescribed chapters of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, focusing on six different categories, with comparative table resource.
• Overall debate based on completed tables.
• [15] mark practice exam question based on completed tables.

Please note: The OCR prescribed literary sources booklet is required to access this lesson. This can be downloaded from the OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation webpage.