Latin for the New Millennium. Student Text. Level 3.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - Foreword: Skeptics may scoff at the idea that another volume of Latin readings is needed in intermediate level classrooms, but even the most dubious will be swayed by the latest addition to the Latin for the New Millennium series. This Level 3 text strives to address all the deficiencies teachers encounter with other transitional volumes and offers instead a comprehensive introduction to a series of authors with every support�lexical, grammatical, historical�that the reading neophyte could need. Most pleasing is the inclusion of all six of the authors so often read in the schools�Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, and Ovid. Too often teachers are forced to choose readers for one or two authors to the exclusion of others. As a result some students have no exposure either to prose or to poetry in meters other than dactylic hexameter. But this volume allows students to experience a variety of both prose and poetic styles. The inclusion of a chapter devoted to postantique Latin continues the series� commitment to reminding teachers and students alike that there is an abundance of engaging and elegant Latin texts spanning the last millennium and more, which we can and should be enjoying. The decision to incorporate letters of Erasmus, who was at the center of the humanist movement of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, opens for students a window into the scholarly community of his time, in which Erasmus and his friends and associates were remarkably interconnected. The inclusion of pieces by Petrarch and John Clark on Vergil and Horace, respectively, nicely brings the reader back to the classical sources from which the movement began. The selections from each author are modest, which is precisely what is suitable for students reading their first extended, unadapted Latin. There is a nice variety in the readings from Cicero, drawn from the Pro Archia, In Catilinam I, and De amicitia. All of the passages from Caesar and several of those from Vergil appear also on the AP syllabus, giving students who read them in an intermediate course and then go on to AP a leg up on the required reading, but more important, exposure to those authors in a less harried, more supportive setting. Beginning the Aeneid or De hello Gallicd again will be like revisiting an old friend. ISBN 9780865167605