Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin

Accompanies the bestselling Latin course, designed for students learning Latin on their own or with limited access to a teacher.

List of contents

General introduction; 1. Plautus' Aulularia; 2. Plautus' Amphitruo; 3. Early Roman history: from Aeneas to Hannibal; 4. Provincial corruption: the Verres scandal 73-71; 5. The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome 64-62; 6. Poetry and politics: Caesar to Augustus; Additional reading for sections 1B to 5G.

About the author

Peter V. Jones was Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne until his retirement. He has written many books for the student of Latin and Greek, most recently Reading Ovid (Cambridge, 2007), Reading Virgil (Cambridge, 2011) and (with Keith Sidwell) the Reading Latin textbook series (Cambridge, 2015).Keith C. Sidwell is Emeritus Professor of Latin and Greek at University College Cork, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. He has written on Greek drama, later Greek literature and Neo-Latin writing: his books include Lucian: Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches (2004), Aristophanes the Democrat (Cambridge, 2009) and The Tipperary Hero: Dermot O'Meara's Ormonius (1615) with David Edwards (2011). As well as co-authoring the Reading Latin series with Peter Jones, he is the author of Reading Medieval Latin (Cambridge, 1995).

Summary

Accompanies the bestselling Latin course and is designed for students learning Latin on their own or with only limited access to a teacher. Contains notes on and translations of the Latin texts appearing in the Text and Vocabulary volume and answers to the exercises in the Grammar and Exercises volume.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Jones, Peter Sidwell Jones, Peter V. Jones, Peter V. Sidwell Jones, Keith Sidwell, Keith (University of Calgary) Sidwell, Keith C. Sidwell, Sidwell Keith C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107615601
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61560-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, Alte Welt, Latein / Lernhilfe, Abiturwissen, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Sprachwissenschaft, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language teaching & learning material & coursework, Language teaching and learning material and coursework