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I did History Extension and EE2 last year. I ended up doing most of my EE2 really early (most of it in the summer break before HSC), and then most of my Hist Ext essay quite late (in Tm 2-ish iirc). My best advice is to know what kind of worker you are: if you're someone who likes to get things...

1) I like to read the whole thing once over to form my own general opinion of the novel, before I go into textual analysis. It's important to remember that the two should never be divorced completely because you want to be an alert reader, but that's my general strategy - forget about having to...

Relax! Most of my Ext 2 class this year changed their concept/form much later than a few weeks into the course. As long as you have the drive to finish whatever you (eventually) choose to pursue, it's going to end up way better than if you made a reckless decision on the basis of an arbitrary...

Not sure if you still need confirmation, but this little apocryphal story indeed does come from the Annals. "nam consulenti super Nerone responderunt Chaldaei fore ut imperaret matremque occideret; atque illa 'occidat' inquit, 'dum imperet." (Tac. Ann. 14.9) "For when she consulted the...

A lot of JTAN papers have plain form readings so I didn't think it was that strange. It (R&RA) was enjoyably humorous though. It was a good paper all in all.

Subjects in the signature. A bit unorthodox. Nice to meet you all!

Greetings from a classics enthusiast still in prelims (but super excited about everything and totally ahead of things) :D To my knowledge, there isn't a textbook specifically catered towards the option of Pericles in the HSC. I've come across an older textbook though (Personalities from the...

Definitely- that is if you're interested. A year of Latin provides a solid foundation for learning Greek (this is how the classics have been taught for centuries- Latin, then Greek) because they are incredibly similar (and incredibly different in other aspects)- even if you don't know Latin...