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.
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One part of a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently.
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| Introduction |
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Part One Plautus' comedies |
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Section 1 Plautus- Aulularia |
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Section 2 Plautus' Amphitruo |
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Part Two Early Roman history: from Aeneas to Hannibal |
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Section 3A Aeneas and the Trojan War |
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Section 3B Romulus and Remus |
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Section 3C Sextus Tarquinius and Lucretia, 509 BC |
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Part Three The demise of the Roman Republic |
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Section 4 Provincial corruption: the Verres scandal 73--71 BC |
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Section 5 The conspiracy of Catiline in Rome 64--62 BC |
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Section 6 Poetry and politics: Caesar to Augustus |
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Section 6A High life and high society: Catullus (c. 84--c. 54 BC) |
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Section 6B 49: Cicero, Caelius and the approach of civil war |
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Section 6C The end of the civil war: the battle of Pharsalus |
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Section 6D Four Roman poets |
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Part Four Additional reading for Sections IB to 5G |
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Total Latin-English Learning Vocabulary |
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Peter 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. Keith Sidwell is Emeritus Professor of Latin and Greek, University College Cork and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion 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) and Aristophanes the Democrat (Cambridge, 2009). As well as co-authoring the Reading Latin series with Peter Jones, he is the author of Reading Medieval Latin (Cambridge, 1995).
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