Full Description
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 Vocabulary and Grammar, Exercises, Context--that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course.OTHER NEW FEATURES:* Streamlined organization
that 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 revised narrative that corresponds to customary U.S. usage and Americanized spelling* A Companion Website at www.oup.com/us/morwood containing grammar and syntax drills, flashcards for vocabulary review, phonetic pronunciations, and instructional materials
Contents
Introduction
1. Scintilla in casa laborat
Quintus
2. Quintus Flaccum iuuat
Women
3. Nundinae
Nundinae and Farming
4. Ludus Flaui
Education
5. Flauius fabulam narrat
The Iliad
6. Graeci Troiam capiunt
Virgil's Aeneid
7. Polyphemus
Homer and Virgil
8. Aeneas in Africa
9. Infelix Dido
10. Comitia
Elections
11. Quintus Romam aduenit
Rome
12. Ludus Orbili
Greece and Rome
13. Marcus Quintum domum suam inuitat
Cicero
14. Caesaris triumphi
The Roman Triumph
15. Idus Martiae
The End of the Republic
16. Caesaris funus
17. Athenis
Stoic and Epicurean
18. Brutus Athenas aduenit
19. Horatius Delphos uisit
Delphi
20. Horatius militat
The Roman Army
21. Philippi
Ablative absolute
Brutus and Cassius
22. Horatius ad Italiam redit
The Confiscations
23. Horatius Romam redit
Latin Poetry
24. Horatius carmina scribit
Books
25. Horatius Maecenati commendatur
26. Horatius iter Brundisium facit
Travel
27. Maecenas poetas fouet
Vixi puellis
28. Horatius rusticus fit
Patrons and Clients
29. Augustus
Cleopatra
Chapter 30. Horatius amicus fit principis
Some Glimpses of Augustus
Chapter 31. Indomita mors
Death
