Course prescriptions for Latin Extension

About course prescriptions

There are prescribed texts required for study in the Latin Extension Stage 6 course. The HSC course prescriptions should be read in conjunction with the:

• Latin Extension Stage 6 Syllabus and other support documents
• Record of changes for Latin Extension Stage 6 Syllabus.

NESA reserves the right to make changes to the prescribed texts listed on this page.

NESA provides information about the responsibilities of schools on the commencement of study of prescriptions in Assessment Certification Examination (ACE).

The NESA website contains the most up-to-date reference for prescribed texts.

Prescription for 2025–2026: Satire

Texts:

• Juvenal, Satire 3
• Horace, Satire 1.9

Prescribed textbook(s):

• Rudd N and Courtney E (eds) (1991) Juvenal Satires I, III, X, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, UK, ISBN: 978-0906515037
• Brucia M and Henry M (eds) (1998) Horace Satire I.9 – The Boor, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Illinois, ISBN: 978-0865164130
• Brucia M and Henry M (eds) (1998) Horace Satire I.9 – The Boor: Teacher's Guide, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Illinois, ISBN: 978-0-865164291

Prescription for 2027–2029: Elegy

Texts:

• Ovid, Amores I.2, I.3, I.7, I.9, I.13, I.15
• Propertius, Poem 3.2
• Catullus, Poems 72, 76, 85, 87, 107

Prescribed textbook(s):

• Barsby J (ed) (1991) Amores I, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, UK (includes Propertius poem 3.2), ISBN: 9780906515457
• Garrison DH (ed) (2012) The Student’s Catullus, 4th ed, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, ISBN: 9780806142326

Prescription for 2030–2032: Historiography

Texts:

• Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 5 (Sections 47–51)
• Tacitus, Agricola (Sections 30–32, 43–46)

Prescribed textbook(s):

• Ross RI (ed) (1998) Livy book V, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, ISBN: 9781853994425
• Kraus CS and Woodman AJ (eds) (2014) Tacitus: Agricola, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 9780521700290

Prescription for 2033–2035: Lyric

Texts:

• Horace, Odes I.5, I.9, I.11, I.21, I.22, II.6, II.14, III.8, III.9, III.13, III.26, III.30, IV.7
• Catullus, Poems 1, 5, 11, 13, 30, 34, 45, 51

Prescribed textbook(s):

• Garrison DH (ed) (1998) Horace: Epodes and Odes, a new annotated Latin edition, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, ISBN: 9780806130576
• Garrison DH (ed) (2012) The student’s Catullus, 4th edn, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, ISBN: 9780806142326