A Latin Reader for Colleges

A Latin Reader for Colleges
Author: H. L. Levy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1989-09-15
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0226476014

Selections from Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights, The Lives of Nepos, Phaedrus' Fables in verse, and some Caesar are carefully aimed to interest and challenge, but not overtax, the college student who is not yet ready for complicated readings in Latin.

Latin Alive! Book 1

Latin Alive! Book 1
Author: Karen Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600510557

The Latin Alive! Book One: Teacher's Edition includes a complete copy of the student text, as well as answer keys, extra teacher's notes and explanations, unit tests, and bonus projects and activities.

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Christine L. Albright
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-09-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351967665

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains: a Latin passage adapted from the epic an accompanying vocabulary list a short commentary to help with translation a concise review of the specific grammar covered a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem, or featured myth. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions, this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece, allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose, and offers opportunities for literary discussion. Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award.

A Little Latin Reader

A Little Latin Reader
Author: Mary C. English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Latin language
ISBN: 9780199846221

This book is designed primarily for use in beginning and intermediate Latin classes at the undergraduate level (semesters 1-4 of college Latin). This Latin reader will present passages of 3-10 lines taken from Classical authors (including Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Martial, Ovid, Vergil, etc.and inscriptions. The selections will consist of lively unadapted passages suitable for elementary and intermediate level Latin students. These passages will be annotated in such a way that instructors can use them in a wide variety of classroom settings. The selections will be arranged to emphasizecertain points of grammar and syntax (case use: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, and Ablative; Pronouns; Ablative Absolutes; Relative Clauses; Indirect Statement; Subordinate Clauses; Subjunctive Verbs; and Conditionals).The arrangement of topics and the length of the passages is intended to provide the highest degree of flexibility in the classroom: a single selection could provide additional practice in syntax and translation during the first or last few minutes of a class session; a series of selections couldprovide the foundation of a class meeting; selections could be used for practice and/or testing in translating at sight; or the entire reader could be used as the foundation of a comprehensive review and transition into intermediate and advanced Latin. In essence, this reader will expose students ofLatin to extended passages of unadapted Latin from a wide variety of important authors at the earliest stage in language instruction. This early exposure to Classical authors will enable students to transition more easily from beginning and intermediate Latin textbooks to authentic Latin prose andpoetry.

De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae a Romulo Ad Augustum, a Latin Reading Book

De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae a Romulo Ad Augustum, a Latin Reading Book
Author: Charles Francois Lhomond
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780526145171

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Oxford Latin Course

Oxford Latin Course
Author: M. G. Balme
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780199122288

Provides teachers and students alike with a modern, inviting and structured way to sustain interest and excellence in Latin. Based on the reading of original texts, the course is structured around a narrative detailing the life of the poet Horace, which helps students to develop an understanding of the times of Cicero and Augustus.

College Latin

College Latin
Author: Peter L. Corrigan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0300190921

By providing a much-needed grammar review, along with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many different teaching preferences, this textbook will help students make the transition from beginning Latin to the intermediate level. The book is filled with exercises and a balance of prose and verse readings organized around five topics. After using College Latin, students will be reacquainted with all the major Latin grammar and able to hold their own in the ?authors courses” that make up most intermediate Latin curriculums.

Latin for Children, Primer C History Reader

Latin for Children, Primer C History Reader
Author: Karen Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781600510168

Now young Latin students can begin to translate and read a selection of simple Latin stories at their own level. The stories are integrated with the grammar and vocabulary of Latin for Children, Primer C, and feature stories of the new world explorers, and early American history. The History Reader contains glosses for new words in each chapter and a full glossary at the end of the book.

Reading Medieval Latin

Reading Medieval Latin
Author: Keith Sidwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1995-08-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521447478

Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will find that it follows on after the end of section 5 of that course.) It is an anthology, organised chronologically and thematically in four parts. Each part is divided into chapters with introductory material, texts, and commentaries which give help with syntax, sentence-structure, and background. There are brief sections on medieval orthography and grammar, together with a vocabulary which includes words (or meanings) not found in standard classical dictionaries. The texts chosen cover areas of interest to students of medieval history, philosophy, theology, and literature.

Reading Latin

Reading Latin
Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107632269

A bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. The Text and Vocabulary presents a series of carefully graded original classical Latin texts, initially adapted but later unadulterated. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the course by supplying all the grammatical help needed.