Learn Latin from the Romans: A Complete Introductory Course Using Textbooks from the Roman Empire

Eleanor Dickey
Cambridge University Press, 6/28/2018
EAN 9781316506196, ISBN10: 1316506193

Paperback, 530 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 3 cm
Language: English

Learn Latin from the Romans is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts written by ancient Romans for Latin learners. These texts, the 'colloquia', consist of dialogues and narratives about daily life similar to those found in modern-language textbooks today, introducing learners to Roman culture as well as to Latin in an engaging, accessible, and enjoyable way. Students and instructors will find everything they need in one complete volume, including clear explanations of grammatical concepts and how Latin works, both British and American orders for all noun and adjective paradigms, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and over 150 longer passages (from the colloquia and a diverse range of other sources including inscriptions, graffiti, and Christian texts as well as Catullus, Cicero, and Virgil). Written by a leading Latin linguist with decades of language teaching experience, this textbook is suitable for introductory Latin courses worldwide.

Preface
Introduction
The pronunciation of Latin
Part I
1. Verbs
inflection and word order
2. Nouns
nominative, vocative, and accusative of first and second declensions
3. Adjectives
gender, agreement, neuters, and vocabulary format
4. Tenses
future, perfect, and principal parts
5. Genitive case, sum
6. First and second conjugations, past participles
7. Dative case, possum
8. Second declension in -r and -ius, substantivization
9. Ablative case, prepositions, eō
10. Demonstratives and imperatives
11. Reading texts
Part II
12. Personal pronouns, partitive and objective genitives
13. Present subjunctive, quis
14. Third declension
15. Subordination, imperfect subjunctive, purpose clauses
16. Sequence of tenses
17. Fourth and mixed conjugations
18. Reading practice
19. Infinitives and indirect statement
20. Reflexives
21. Third-declension adjectives
22. Reading practice
Part III
23. Demonstratives, ablative of agent
24. Participles
25. Relative clauses and volō
26. Reading practice
27. Deponent verbs
forms from first two principal parts
28. Indirect commands
29. Deponent verbs
perfect-stem forms
30. Fear clauses and long sentences
31. Reading poetry
Part IV
32. Passive voice, agent and means
33. Result clauses
34. Fourth and fifth declensions
35. Time and place
36. Reading practice
37. Nōlō and mālō
38. Regular comparison
39. Imperfect tense
40. Irregular comparison, negatives
41. Gerundives
42. Reading practice
43. Adverbs
44. Pluperfect and future perfect tenses
45. Impersonal verbs
46. Perfect and pluperfect subjunctives
47. More subordinate clauses
48. Reading practice
Part V
49. Ferō
50. Conditional clauses
51. Fīō
52. Ipse and iste
53. Reading practice
54. Indirect questions
55. Numbers
56. Relative clauses with the subjunctive
57. Ablative absolute
58. Īdem, expressions of price and value
59. Reading practice
60. Gerunds I
61. Gerunds II
Appendices
62. How to use the appendices
63. Further grammatical explanations and exercises
64. Key to further exercises
65. Alphabetical glossary of grammatical terminology
66. The metre of Virgil's Aeneid
Cumulative vocabulary, Latin to English
Cumulative vocabulary, English to Latin
Index of grammatical topics covered
Index of Latin passages included.