Variatio: a Scholarship Latin Course
Variatio: a Scholarship Latin Course

Author: E. Clarke

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9781514638729

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"mensa is back! - and this in itself summarises the Variatio approach: traditional, thorough and gimmick-free... This non-syllabus-specific course will appeal to anyone, from early teens to mature students, who wants a no-nonsense approach to getting stuck into this challenging but rewarding language." - Bob Bass, Head of Classics at Orwell Park School, author of the "Latin Practice Sentences" series and ISEB's chief setter for CE and CAS Latin examinations. Variatio is a two-part course, designed to take the student from the rudiments of Latin through to complex syntactical constructions. The books cater specifically for 13+ scholarship examinations, but contain every element of the Common Entrance, Common Academic Scholarship and GCSE syllabuses. Indeed all but three of the topics required for the AS language specification (deliberative questions, oratio obliqua and consecutive clauses with quam ut) are met. The course is also ideal for anyone who wishes to teach themselves Latin, or reacquaint themselves with the language. Part I covers the following: all declensions of nouns and adjectives, including irregular nouns; all conjugations of active verbs and sum; personal, demonstrative and reflexive pronouns; numerals, time, place and space. Part II begins with the passive voice and from there on covers the following topics: instrument and agent; comparison of adjectives and adverbs; demonstrative pronouns; the relative pronoun; deponent and semi-deponent verbs; irregular verbs; participles; ablative absolutes; the indirect statement and infinitives; the subjunctive mood; jussive subjunctives; cum clauses, temporal and causal; concessive clauses; final clauses; consecutive clauses; prolative infinitives and indirect commands; interrogatives; indirect questions; sub-clauses in indirect speech; verbs of fearing; conditional clauses; the relative pronoun within final clauses; the supine; gerunds; gerundives; the historic infinitive; inverse cum clauses; usage of cases. An appendix of past scholarship papers from a number of prominent senior schools - including Eton, Marlborough and Westminster - is also included.

Politics, Society, And Democracy Latin America
Politics, Society, And Democracy Latin America

Author: Scott Mainwaring

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0429977778

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This is the third of four volumes compiled in honor of Juan J. Linz and edited by H. E. Chehabi, Richard Gunther, Alfred Stepan, and Arturo Valenzuela. Each volume presents original research and theoretical essays by Linz's distinguished collaborators, students, teachers, and friends, as well as overviews of his enormous contributions to Spanish and Latin American studies, comparative politics, and sociology.In Volume III, leading Latin American scholars evaluate Juan Linz's contribution to the study of Latin American politics, in particular his influence on studies dealing with authoritarianism, democratic breakdown, public opinion, regime transition, and the institutional conditions needed for stable democracy.

Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
Latin as the Language of Science and Learning

Author: Philipp Roelli

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 3110745836

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This 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.