Democracy & Athenians Textbook Companion - OCR Classical Civilization Component 34
An editable 117-page OCR A Level Classical Civilisation H408/34 workbook for Democracy and the Athenians, designed to accompany the Bloomsbury textbook.
This comprehensive student booklet follows the structure of the Bloomsbury Component 34 textbook and provides organised space for students to complete its activities, study questions, modern parallels, stretch and challenge tasks, topic reviews and examination practice. It is suitable for classroom teaching, independent study, homework, consolidation and revision.
The resource is organised around the complete OCR Democracy and the Athenians course, including Solon, Cleisthenes, fifth-century democratic developments, Ephialtes, Pericles, the institutions of Athenian democracy, the Assembly, Boulē, law courts, sortition, ostracism, the Athenian Empire, democracy idealised, democracy criticised and democracy in Old Comedy.
All OCR H408/34 prescribed literary sources are gathered in one place: Aeschylus’ Eumenides; Euripides’ Suppliants; Aristophanes’ Acharnians, Assemblywomen, Knights, Peace, Wasps and Frogs; Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War; Plato’s Republic; and Pseudo-Xenophon’s Constitution of the Athenians, also known as the Old Oligarch. The booklet supports source analysis, comparison of ancient evidence, evaluation of Greek democracy and engagement with modern scholarship.
Features include:
• direct page references to the Bloomsbury textbook
• clearly structured writing spaces
• complete prescribed source passages
• AO1 knowledge and AO2 analysis practice
• 1-mark, 2-mark, 10-mark, 20-mark and 30-mark exam-style questions
• topic review and revision activities
• modern scholarship and wider-reading prompts
• an editable Microsoft Word format for adaptation to your own classes
Ideal for Year 12 and Year 13 students studying OCR A Level Classical Civilisation Component 34. Checked against the current OCR H408 specification in July 2026.