A Little Latin Reader

Author: Mary C. English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199846221
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Oxford Latin Course

Author: M. G. Balme
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199122288
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
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.

Reading Medieval Latin

Author: Keith Sidwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447478
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 422

Book Description
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.

How to Read a Latin Poem

Author: William Fitzgerald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199657866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This is a book about poetry, language, and classical antiquity, and explains to the reader with little or no Latin how the language works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression. Fitzgerald guides the reader through samples of Latin poetry to give a sense of how the individual poems feel in Latin and what makes Latin poetry worth reading.

Learn to Read Latin

Author: Andrew Keller
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300194986
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations and examples but also offers direct access to unabridged passages drawn from a wide variety of Latin texts. As beginning students learn basic forms and grammar, they also gain familiarity with patterns of Latin word order and other features of style. Learn to Read Latinis designed to be comprehensive and requires no supplementary materialsexplains English grammar points and provides drills especially for today's studentsoffers sections on Latin metricsincludes numerous unaltered examples of ancient Latin prose and poetryincorporates selections by authors such as Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid, presented chronologically with introductions to each author and workoffers a comprehensive workbook that provides drills and homework assignments.This enlarged second edition improves upon an already strong foundation by streamlining grammatical explanations, increasing the number of syntax and morphology drills, and offering additional short and longer readings in Latin prose and poetry.

A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners

Author: Peter Parker
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408706156
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
How did the delphinium get its name? Which parts of the body lend their names to auriculas and orchids? Who are the gentian, lobelia and heuchera named after? Why are nasturtiums and antirrhinums connected? What does an everlasting pea have to do with Indian miniature paintings? These are some of the questions answered in Peter Parker's adventurous exploration of the mysteries of Botanical Latin. Evolved over many centuries and often thought to belong to the rarefied world of scholars and scientists, this invented language is in fact a very useful tool for everyday gardening. It allows us to find our way around nurseries; it sorts out confusions when two plants have the same English name; and it gives us all kinds of information about how big or small a plant will grow, what shape or colour it will develop, and what habitat it prefers. In his lively survey, Parker agues that Botanical Latin is not merely useful, but fun. The naming of plants draws upon geography, social and medical history, folklore, mythology, language, literature, the human body, the animal kingdom and all manner of ancient beliefs and superstitions. The book, beautifully illustrated with old woodcuts, explains how and why plants have been named, includes handy lists of identifying adjectives, and takes the reader down some of the stranger byways of human endeavour and eccentricity.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays

Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
An intriguing collection of more than 70 Latin American essays, some never before translated into English, gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time--from Andres Bello, Pablo Neruda, and Alfonso Reyes to Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rosario Ferre--an assembly confident, ingenious, aware.

Short Latin Stories

Author: Philip Dunlop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Latin Readings

Author: Gertrude Drake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin language
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description

Wheelock's Latin

Author: Frederic M. Wheelock
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062016563
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 2902

Book Description
The classic introductory Latin textbook, first published in 1956, and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind. Revised and expanded, this sixth edition of classics professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook and more: * Forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors * Self-tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study * An extensive English-Latin/Latin-English vocabulary section * A rich selection of original Latin readings—unlike other textbooks which contain primarily made-up Latin texts * Etymological aids Also includes maps of the Mediterranean, Italy and the Aegean area, as well as numerous photographs illustrating aspects of classical culture, mythology, and historical and literary figures presented in the chapter readings.