Thirty-eight Latin Stories: Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin
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Though designed specifically for use with Wheelock's introductory Latin course, 38 Latin Stories will complement other introductory Latin courses. 38 Latin Stories contains beginning-level prose readings that gradually increase in complexity. Eighteen of the selections are original compositions recounting tales from classical mythology and are often inspired by Ovid. Twenty are adaptations of passages from Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Petronius, Pliny, Quintilian, Sallust, Terence, and Vergil with a heavy emphasis on Cicero.
This fifth revised edition accommodates the changes incorporated in the seventh edition of Wheelock. Special Features A graded reader provides interesting prose readings from a variety of authors A list of grammar mastery assumed is presented for each reading Correlations with Wheelock’s chapters precede each reading A brief introduction sets the context of each reading Facing vocabulary for each selection Latin-to-English glossary.
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- Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
- 9781610410250
- 9780865162891
- ePub
- 5
- Anne H. Groton and James M. May
- English
- 2004
- 100
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword to the Fifth Edition
- Contents
- Pandora’s Box (Wheelock Chapters 1–3)
- The Tragic Story of Phaëthon (Ch. 4)
- The Adventures of Io (Ch. 5)
- The Curse of Atreus (Ch. 6)
- Cleobis and Biton (Ch. 7)
- Laocoön and the Trojan Horse (Ch. 8)
- Nisus and Euryalus (Ch. 9)
- Aurora and Tithonus (Ch. 10)
- Ulysses and the Cyclops (Ch. 11)
- A Gift Bearing Greeks (Ch. 12)
- Echo and Handsome Narcissus (Ch. 13)
- Europa and the Bull (Ch. 14)
- How the Aegean Got Its Name (Ch. 15)
- The Wrath of Achilles (Ch. 16)
- The Myrmidons (Ant People) (Ch. 17)
- A Wedding Invitation (Ch. 18)
- The Judgment of Paris (Ch. 19)
- The Labors of Hercules (Ch. 20)
- The Golden Age Returns (Ch. 21)
- Cicero Reports His Victory over Catiline (Ch. 22)
- Watching the Orator at Work (Ch. 23)
- Caesar’s Camp Is Attacked by Belgians (Ch. 24)
- The Character of Catiline’s Followers (Ch. 25)
- The Virtues of the Orator Cato (Ch. 26)
- Old Age Is Not a Time for Despair (Ch. 27)
- Two Love Poems by Catullus (Ch. 28)
- Quintilian Praises the Oratory of Cicero (Ch. 29)
- Pliny Writes to His Friends (Ch. 30)
- Lucretia: Paragon of Virtue (Ch. 31)
- Vergil Praises the Rustic Life (Ch. 32)
- The Helvetians Parley with Caesar (Ch. 33)
- Sallust’s View of Human Nature (Ch. 34)
- A Conversation from Roman Comedy (Ch. 35)
- A Crisis in Roman Education (Ch. 36)
- Horace Meets a Boorish Fellow (Ch. 37)
- Cicero Speaks about the Nature of the Soul (Ch. 38)
- Cicero Evaluates Two Famous Roman Orators (Ch. 39)
- Hannibal and the Romans Fight to a Draw (Ch. 40)
- Glossary
- Backmatter