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Author: Elizabeth P. Archibald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1107051649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.
Author: Eleanor Dickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107093607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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.
Author: Ann Patty
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1101980230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A delightful mix of grammar and growth, words and wonder.” – The Washington Post An entertaining exploration of the richness and relevance of the Latin language and literature, and an inspiring account of finding renewed purpose through learning something new and challenging After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, aimless, and lost in the woods, she hoped to challenge her restless, word-loving brain by beginning a serious study of Latin at local colleges. As she begins to make sense of Latin grammar and syntax, her studies open unexpected windows into her own life. The louche poetry of Catullus calls up her early days in 1970s New York, Lucretius elucidates her intractable drivenness and her attraction to Buddhism, while Ovid’s verse conjures a delightful dimension to the flora and fauna that surround her. Women in Roman history, and an ancient tomb inscription give her new understanding and empathy for her tragic, long deceased mother. Finally, Virgil reconciles her to her new life—no longer an urban exile, but a rustic scholar, writer and teacher. Along the way, she meets an impassioned cast of characters: professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for words, Patty’s book is an object lesson in how learning and literature can transform the past and lead to an unexpected future.
Author: Philipp Roelli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 3110745836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science’ through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science’ as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin’s heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.
Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-30
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 0521698510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. The texts and numerous illustrations also provide a good introduction to Greek culture.
Author: Eleanor Dickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1107140846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only introductory Latin textbook to use texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners, presented in one volume.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Hesperus Press
Published: 2024-07-15
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 1843913488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaken from The Common Reader, these essays take the form of a series of reflections on diverse literary topics, brought to life by Woolf' s extensive knowledge, lively wit, and piercing insight. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition."
Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02-15
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780521776639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA examination of stereotypical ideas about Latin and their effect on how Latin literature is read.
Author: Peter Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 1107632269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the course by supplying all the grammatical help needed.
Author: Steven Hunt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-03-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1350368148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Updated throughout, this new edition includes information about and analysis of recent Latin textbook publications and curriculum developments across the globe. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice in teaching and learning from a wide variety of institutions: from outreach programmes, community schools and academies in the UK and USA. Offering practical advice on topics such as essay writing, teaching controversial topics including women, slavery, ethnicity and social hierarchy, making use of primary sources and using ICT to advance language skills, this book also engages with broader questions of approach and theory. These include a survey of the three main approaches to Latin teaching: grammar-translation, communicative and reading approaches; explanation of cognitive and social approaches to learning; and analysis of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Moreover, traditional arguments about the value and purpose of learning Latin at school level are re-examined in the light of current educational thinking and government policy-making. This book is invaluable for trainees, newly qualified teachers and more experienced practitioners looking for practical ideas and strategies to motivate and engage learners of Latin.
