Category Archives: Latin

Latin for Beginners: Centurion Edition

Now in the public domain, Latin for Beginners, by Benjamin L. D’ooge, Ph.D. was originally published in 1909. The Centurion Edition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Latin classic. The text has been retypeset and formatted. All … Continue reading

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Politeness and Politics in Cicero’s Letters

Politeness and Politics in Cicero’s Letters presents a fresh examination of the letters exchanged between Cicero and correspondents, such as Pompey, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the final turbulent decades of the Roman Republic. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theories of … Continue reading

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Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World’s Classics)

Alain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offers the finest translation of Seneca’s dialogues and essays in print, capturing the … Continue reading

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The Blackwell History of the Latin Language

This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero … Continue reading

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Roman Satire (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)

This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides … Continue reading

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Latin Word Order: Structured Meaning and Information

Word order is not a subject anyone reading Latin can afford to ignore: apart from anything else, word order is what gets one from disjoint sentences to coherent text. Reading a paragraph of Latin without attention to the word order … Continue reading

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Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition

A newly revised and typeset edition of one of the most popular textbooks used for review of grammar and for writing Latin composition. The gold standard in Latin composition, used by thousands, for good reasons: Bradley’s Arnold covers the elements … Continue reading

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The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval And Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition)

In this volume an expert team seeks to establish whether medieval and early Renaissance rhetorical theory and practice were innovative or derivative (from Graeco-Roman rhetoric), by looking at a unique range of key topics that underlie the postmodern culture of … Continue reading

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Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana (Latin Edition) (Pt. 1)

Entirely composed in Latin, Part I, Familia Romana, provides an excellent introduction to Latin, including the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of over 1500 words. The thirty-five chapters describe the life of a Roman family in the … Continue reading

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X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century

The master of American wit—whose books have sold more than four million copies combined—delivers a hilarious handbook of Latin phrases for saying what’s really on your mind, without any consequences. In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, … Continue reading

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