Featuring a unique layout, this edition presents the main text of Vergil alongside a prose paraphrase and commentary for enhanced understanding. The Dolphin Editions series focuses on ancient authors, providing readers with a clear structure that includes illustrations to complement the text. This approach allows for a deeper engagement with classical literature, making it accessible to a wider audience.
This edition of Caesar's De Bello Gallico is specifically designed for AP Latin students and teachers, featuring annotations and illustrations that enhance understanding of the text. It provides valuable insights into the historical context and themes of the work, making it a useful resource for deepening comprehension and facilitating discussions in the classroom. The combination of monolingual text with supportive annotations aids in the study of Latin language and literature.
This Latin reader provides simple, comprehensible input with an interesting plot set in the modern world. The material is ideal for intermediate Latin students who are interested in developing conversational ability in Latin. The idiom is thoroughly classical, yet the vocabulary is drawn from daily life and includes words and expressions necessary for Latin conversation in school and the classroom. The reader can be used profitably by students at any level. Throughout the book, the focus is not on teaching morphology and syntax, but on giving students words and phrases that they will need to converse and express themselves in Latin. The Latin glosses included in the margins are meant to provide additional exposure to the language and to help students and teachers begin to develop а copia verborum. The questions at the end of each lesson give additional exposure to Latin. The questions are a basic test of comprehension and are intended to encourage the student to read the text more carefully. The exercises (exercitia) also can serve as examples of the types of questions that a teacher can pose to students in class or for written assignments.
This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was understood in the ancient world. Encountering and understanding the Iliad in its original language is to experience it in its most unmediated and authentic form. The commentary presented here is a goldmine of information for any student, offering precious insight into a world of ancient scholarship as colorful and as variegated as Homer's verses themselves. The titanic expenditure of ink, time, and painstaking effort by the scholiasts was not one made lightly: they believed that the Iliad had something urgent and immediate to say in their lives, and found within its verses wisdom on language, the divine, the human condition, and so much more. It is the purpose of this book to allow students today to do just the same.