Learn Latin with Livy: Ab Urbe Condita 23

A review of Mark Riley, The Neo-Latin Reader: Selections from Petrarch to Rimbaud. Sophron Editor, 2016.

Guidebook to accompany 36 video lecture course: <https://www.wondrium.com/latin-101-learning-a-classical-language>.

The Romany bibliography, the 5th issue of the Latin letter B: 1831 titles, 340 in the Romany e-library.

The 2nd issue contains 596 titles

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook comprises a dynamic reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. The book presents forty individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their fi rst year of learning Latin. Grammar points are followed by contextualized examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning. There is a particular emphasis throughout on familiarizing students with real, unadulterated Latin and the task of teasing information from the Latin via translations. To this end, there are matching exercises with unedited Latin excerpts and rough English translations in the chapters, encouraging students to take a hands-on approach in their learning. In addition to this, a short reading relating to the adventures of Hercules is presented at the end of almost every chapter; these readings, which become progressively more complex, give the course a strong sense of narrative cohesion and interest and provide students with opportunities to develop their comprehension and translation skills. Key features include: • Clear, accessible format and jargon-free explanations of grammar • Many useful language examples • Abundant and varied exercises with full answer key • Controlled usage of vocabulary throughout, allowing students to concentrate on building up their grammatical knowledge • Review sections at intervals throughout the text, providing exercises specially designed to consolidate knowledge of language points covered • Useful English-Latin and Latin-English dictionaries at the back of the book. Written by an experienced instructor, Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook is an ideal resource for beginning students of Latin. It can be used as a textbook, grammar reference and practice resource and is suitable both for class use and independent study.

Graduate Course in the Classical Studies Program of Villanova University - Taught online in Fall 2023

2019

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This is a syllabus for Elementary Latin I, Fall 2022. This course adopted Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latina and combined active Latin use in the classroom with regular paradigm quizzes.

The Romany bibliography, the 4th issue of the Latin letter C: 1235 titles, 265 in the Romany e-library.

The Romany bibliography, the 5th issue of the Latin letter A: 1018 titles, 21 in the Romany e-library.

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1994

Translated by Joseph B. Solodow. Revised by Don Fowler, Glenn W. Most.

Pentad SUMMARY: Livy tries to judge virtutes and vitia of both patricians and plebeians impartially. Naturally, Livy`s vision of the early republic presented in the first pentad is anachronic and discordant to historical truth. In my opinion he supports an aristocratic republic and Augustus`s principate, but often criticizes patricians and highly estimates valours of the plebs. His observations on regnum, libertas, moderatio, discordia are noteworthy and rhetorically embellished. The language of political rhetoric is extended and close to invective.

In the intervening years since I wrote this review in 1989, Oxford University Press has revised this text and has produced some different editions. In addition, I have actually had the opportunity to use some of the volumes of this course in my own university classes. As a result, I no longer share the opinions of the Oxford Latin Course expressed in this review. In fact, I have found this course to be excellent in teaching university students Latin and in inspiring them to learn the language by structuring the learning activities around an engaging narrative that covers some of the important events of Horace's life. I can therefore recommend this text for instructors and learners of the Latin language based upon my own experience.

AbstrAct This review article examines the five Focus Aeneid commentaries available at the time of writing. When choosing post-beginner level teaching commentaries, my central goal is to assess whether editions help teachers and students integrate the development of broader skills in critical enquiry into their explanations of grammar, vocabulary, and style, instead of artificially separating " literary " and " historical " analytic strategies from " language " skills. After briefly explaining why the well-known Vergil editions by Pharr (revised by Boyd) and Williams do not suit these priorities, I summarize the strengths of the contributions to the new Focus series by Ganiban, Perkell, O'Hara, and Johnston, with particular emphasis on O'Hara's edition of Book 4, and compare the series with Jones' new textbook Reading Virgil: Aeneid I and II.

The Romany bibliography, the 2nd issue of the Latin letter L: 925 titles, 135 in the Romany e-library.