About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107618703

ISBN-139781107618701

eBay Product ID (ePID)201747558

Product Key Features

Number of Pages362 Pages

Publication NameReading Latin : Text and Vocabulary

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAncient Languages (See Also Latin), Latin

Publication Year2016

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorPeter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell

Subject AreaForeign Language Study

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight25.5 Oz

Item Length9.7 in

Item Width6.9 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2017-287065

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal478.2421

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Plautus and the Roman Comic Tradition: Section 1. Plautus' Aulularia; Section 2. Plautus' Amphitruo; Part II. Early Roman History: From Aeneas to Hannibal: Section 3A. Aeneas and the Trojan War; Section 3B. Romulus and Remus; Section 3C. The rape of Lucretia; Section D. Hannibal; Part III. The Demise of the Roman Republic: Section 4. Provincial corruption: the Verres scandal; Section 5. The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome, 64-62; Section 6. Poetry and politics: Caesar to Augustus; Additional reading; Total Latin-English learning vocabulary.

SynopsisA 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. It accompanies the Grammar and Exercises volume, but could be used as a self-standing beginner's reader., Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. It does this in three ways: it encourages the reading of continuous texts from the start; it offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it integrates the learning of classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from antiquity to the present. The Text and Vocabulary, richly illustrated, consists at the start of carefully graded adaptations from original classical Latin texts. The adaptations are gradually phased out until unadulterated prose and verse can be read. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the course, although the present volume could be used as a self-standing beginner's reader if desired. This second edition has been fully revised and updated, with a new chapter containing stories from early Roman history.

LC Classification NumberPA2094.5.J66 2015