Reading Latin
Text and Vocabulary

One part of a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently.

Peter Jones (Author), Keith Sidwell (Author)

9781107618701, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 October 2016

362 pages, 78 b/w illus. 5 maps
24.7 x 17.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.72 kg

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.

Introduction
Part I. Plautus and the Roman Comic Tradition: Section 1. Plautus' Aulul?ria
Section 2. Plautus' Amphitru?
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.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], Language: history & general works [CBX], Language: reference & general [CB]