Oxford Latin Course, College Edition Readings and Vocabulary
by Balme, Maurice; Morwood, JamesEdition: Bilingual
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-02-10
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Adapted to better meet the needs of American college students,The Oxford Latin Course,College Edition, retains its trademark reading-based approach, but does so now in two companion volumes--Readings and VocabularyandGrammar, Exercises, Context--that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course. OTHER NEW FEATURES: *Streamlined organizationthat focuses more closely on the life of the Roman poet Horace *Additional and more robust grammar explanations *Revised cartoons--completely redrawn for a college audience--that illustrate grammar points and provide students with "visual vignettes" *A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/morwoodcontaining grammar and syntax drills, flashcards for vocabulary review, phonetic pronunciations, and instructional materials
Author Biography
Maurice Balme is the former Head of Classics at Harrow. He is the coauthor of Athenaze, the #1 book in the US for first-year courses in Greek, and the author of many other books.
James Morwood has been a Lecturer of Classics at Wadham College, Oxford, since 1996. Before that, he taught Classics for 30 years at Harrow.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Scintilla in casa laborat | |
| Quintus | |
| Quintus Flaccum iuuat | |
| Women | |
| Nundinae | |
| Nundinae and Farming | |
| Ludus Flaui | |
| Education | |
| Flauius fabulam narrat | |
| The Iliad | |
| Graeci Troiam capiunt | |
| Virgil's Aeneid | |
| Polyphemus | |
| Homer and Virgil | |
| Aeneas in Africa | |
| Infelix Dido | |
| Comitia | |
| Elections | |
| Quintus Romam aduenit | |
| Rome | |
| Ludus Orbili | |
| Greece and Rome | |
| Marcus Quintum domum suam inuitat | |
| Cicero | |
| Caesaris triumphi | |
| The Roman Triumph | |
| Idus Martiae | |
| The End of the Republic | |
| Caesaris funus | |
| Athenis | |
| Stoic and Epicurean | |
| Brutus Athenas aduenit | |
| Horatius Delphos uisit | |
| Delphi | |
| Horatius militat | |
| The Roman Army | |
| Philippi | |
| Ablative absolute | |
| Brutus and Cassius | |
| Horatius ad Italiam redit | |
| The Confiscations | |
| Horatius Romam redit | |
| Latin Poetry | |
| Horatius carmina scribit | |
| Books | |
| Horatius Maecenati commendatur | |
| Horatius iter Brundisium facit | |
| Travel | |
| Maecenas poetas fouet | |
| Vixi puellis | |
| Horatius rusticus fit | |
| Patrons and Clients | |
| Augustus | |
| Cleopatra | |
| Horatius amicus fitprincipis | |
| Some Glimpses of Augustus | |
| Indomita mors | |
| Death | |
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