This page lists what we actually have for OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation J199. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
Every route through the qualification
OCR assembles this GCSE from two independent choices. A department takes one thematic study, either Myth and Religion or Women in the Ancient World, and one literature and culture option, either the Homeric World, Roman City Life or War and Warfare. OCR publishes the six pairings as lettered entry options A to F and states plainly that there are no prohibited combinations.
All five components have activities here. Four on Myth and Religion, four on Women in the Ancient World, three on the Homeric World, three on Roman City Life, four on War and Warfare.
The practical consequence is that this page does not need a warning at the top. Most pages on this site that describe an options specification have to say which option we built and which we did not. Our AQA GCSE History activities cover four of sixteen options, which is honest and limiting. Here, whatever letter your entry code ends with, the content is present.
A subject where revision actually works
Two features of this specification make it more revisable than its reputation suggests.
The first is that the Literature section uses prescribed sources only. There is no unseen literature. The passages a student will meet are a fixed list, published in advance, and that makes them something you can genuinely learn rather than something you can only prepare for in general.
The second is that the content is narrative. Heracles, the Cyclops, Penelope and the bow contest, the agoge, Thermopylae, Actium: these are stories, and stories hold in a way that definitions do not. The activities lean on that, which is part of why they run long.
The Culture section does use unseen sources alongside prescribed ones, so the visual and archaeological material needs looking at as well as reading about, and that is your department's slide deck rather than this page.
The longest activities on the site
Eighteen to twenty-eight minutes, averaging twenty-four, with seventeen of the eighteen at twenty minutes or more.
That is deliberate and it has consequences. These are not starters. One of them is a homework, or a substantial chunk of a revision lesson, and setting three in a week would be a lot.
The longest, Leisure, Entertainment and Satire at twenty-eight minutes, covers the Roman baths, the amphitheatre and the satirists' view of both, which is a large amount of ground for one sitting. Mycenaean Archaeology and the two Odyssey activities are each twenty-four to twenty-six.
What is in each option
Myth and Religion: Greek and Roman gods with their name equivalences and domains, Heracles and the foundation myths, temples, festivals and symbols of power, and death, burial and the underworld.
Women in the Ancient World: women of legend and young women, women in the home and improper women, women, religion and power including the Vestals and the Pythia, and warrior women.
The Homeric World: Mycenaean archaeology, the Cyclops and Circe, and Penelope and the bow contest.
Roman City Life: housing and family, society and social classes, and leisure, entertainment and satire.
War and Warfare: Sparta and Thermopylae, Athens and Salamis, Rome at Actium and Trajan's Dacian campaign, and epic and verse on war.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint and share one link. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
It does not supply the prescribed sources themselves. The activities work from them and around them; the texts come from your department.
Nothing for unseen visual and archaeological material in the Culture section beyond the named sites and objects.
It does not mark extended writing. The written tasks here run seventy to a hundred and seventy words with an explicit structure, and a human still reads the result.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.