Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Latin

The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50-ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected without a comprehensive examination of the surviving copies. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment of the tradition. The principal novelty is the argument that six...

The book presents Henry Totting of Oyta (d. 1397), a late medieval intellectual who was active in Erfurt, Prague, Paris, and Vienna. In spite of the fact that he is a well-known figure, the majority of his works remain unedited in manuscripts. The authors analyse and provide the first editions of three of his sermons: On the Passion, On the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and On the Nativity of John the Baptist. Totting wrote each of them at a different point in his career, for a different audience and in a different style. They contribute to our...

John Parker, after a career of teaching mathematics, retired to Cornwall and returned to his first love, the Latin language. He set about compiling this book, an extensive list of Latin words and phrases used by English writers, and indeed by English speakers, in the recent past and in the present. In the book he not only translates the Latin but also includes passages showing just how authors have embraced Latin and tucked it into their English... "Even before puberty Martin had known that deep within him were the makings of a great lover.... Samantha's initial response to his tentative...

In a tradition stretching back over a hundred years, Hillard & Botting have guided generations of Latin students along the path to fluency. Classical scholars of any age will find these exercises are the natural prelude to North & Hillard’s canonical textbook, and a solid basis for GCSE exam success.

“In those days, we felt a strong sense of cultural continuity. As we trudged through Kennedy’s Latin Primer or Hillard & Botting, we knew we were treading a well-worn path. Some of our...

Adolescence is a pivotal time in a girl's life. The development of educational, physical, psychosocial, familial, political and economic capabilities enable girls to reach their full potential and contribute to the wellbeing of their families and society. However, progress is still significantly constrained by discriminatory gender norms and the related attitudes and practices which restrict girls' horizons, restrain their ambition and, if unfettered, allow exploitation and abuse.

Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.

The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty, adapted from Ovid's epic poem into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods.

Each chapter contains:

• a Latin passage adapted from the epic
• an accompanying vocabulary...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.

The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty, adapted from Ovid's epic poem into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance, seduction, humour, violence, monsters, and misbehaving gods.

Each chapter contains:

• a Latin passage adapted from the epic
• an accompanying vocabulary...

Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and irrepressible wit? And why, though the attribution is spurious, is it not, in some ways, implausible?

Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer these and other questions in the first English-language monograph on Walter Map--and in so doing, he offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including...

The goal of Forum is to enable students to speak Latin as a living language. Studies have shown that unless one speaks, reading fluency becomes difficult to attain. Because it teaches students to speak Latin, Forum prepares them to read without the use of dictionary or translation, and to read as fluently as one might read in any modern language.

Forum applies to Latin the teaching methods commonly used for modern language acquisition: total oral immersion, total physical response (TPR), role-playing games, gradual complexity of dialogues and stories, and...

Ferdinand Gregorovius: Lucrezia Borgia

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2017

Durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Stuttgart, Cotta, 1874

Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger

Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion

Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Bildes: Bartolomeo Veneto, Idealbildnis einer Kurtisane als Flora, um 1520

Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Acta Muciorum is a second-year Latin reader for students who have completed A New Latin Primer, Cornelia, and Carolus et Maria. It is classical in flavor and well-suited as a bridge between the first-year readers in the series and Caesar. The first forty chapters contain a historical-fiction narrative about the famous Roman family, the Mucii, the next twelve chapters are simplified Caesar, and the final eight consist of unadapted Caesar. Acta Muciorum contains 1497 unique vocabulary words; of these, 537 are used in the previous books in the...