Reading Latin

Name: Reading Latin
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ISBN: 9780521286237

ISBN-10: 0521286239

ISBN-13: 9780521286237

Edition: 1986

Authors: Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell

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Reading Latin is a Latin course designed to help mature beginners read Latin fluently and intelligently, primarily in the context of classical culture, but with some mediaeval Latin too. It does this in three ways; it encourages reading of continuous texts from the start; it offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it integrates the learning of Classical Latin with an appreciation of the influence of the Latin language upon English and European culture from Antiquity to the present. The text, richly illustrated, consists at the start of carefully graded adaptations from original Classical Latin texts. The adaptations are gradually phased out until unadultered prose and…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/29/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396

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Preliminary remarks


Acknowledgements


Notes


List of maps and plans


Introduction



Plautus and the Roman comic tradition



The demise of the Roman Republic


Notes on illustrations