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Informationen zum Autor Eleanor Dickey has taught in Canada and the United States, and is currently Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Academia Europaea and has published widely on the Latin and Greek languages and how they were studied in antiquity, including Greek Forms of Address (1996), Latin Forms of Address (2002), Ancient Greek Scholarship (2007) and The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana (2012-15). She has extensive experience of teaching both Latin and Greek at all levels, in French as well as in English, and has brought this experience to bear on her adaptations of the ancient Latin-learning materials for modern students. Klappentext This book makes ancient Latin-learning materials usable by modern students for the first time. Zusammenfassung During the Roman empire Greek speakers learned Latin using textbooks that still offer special advantages: authentic and enjoyable vignettes about the ancient world! easy Latin composed by Romans! insight into ancient learning practices. This book makes the ancient Latin-learning materials available to modern students for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Texts; 3. Grammatical works; 4. Glossaries; 5. Prose composition; 6. Alphabets; 7. Transliterated texts; 8. Texts with the original Greek; 9. Texts without word division; 10. Overview of the ancient Latin-learning materials; Bibliography.