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Classical Latinby JC McKeown
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 34.00Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach. more...
Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin, 2Eby Natalie Harwood
Alpha Books 2003; US$ 15.99The latest edition of our comprehensive Latin primer, this covers basic vocabulary, grammar, and construction in an approachable format that offers a refreshing alternative to the standard, stuffy texts. more...
Essential Latinby G. D. A. Sharpley
Routledge 1999; US$ 40.95The ideal introduction to the world of ancient Rome for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. It presents a comprehensive survey of the language, life and customs of a culture that continues to influence our own. more...
Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotationsby Jon Stone
Routledge 2004; US$ 25.95a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war. more...
Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitusby Ellen O'Gorman
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion. more...
Cicero's styleby M. von Albrecht
BRILL 2003; US$ 156.00An analysis of Cicero's style, covering differences of literary genres, nuances of style in individual works, and chronological development. There is an account of fixed elements typical of Cicero's diction, and interpretative studies discuss the relationship of style and context in the orations. more...
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republicby Robert Morstein-Marx
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 38.00This book examines how public, political discourse shaped the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. The 'ideology' of Republican mass oratory is analyzed comprehensively and situated fully within the institutional, historical and physical contexts of the public meetings in which these speeches were heard. more...
A Heart of Stoneby Renate Dorrestein
Penguin Group Inc. 2001; US$ 11.99In the words of bestselling author Susan Vreeland, "Renate Dorrestein knows how to chill her readers with tragedy and then melt their hearts with forgiveness." A Heart of Stone is a spare yet richly told novel that seamlessly alternates between past and present. Sparked by faded photographs in an old family album, the novel's narrator, Ellen, pieces together the frayed memories of an idyllic childhood. She relives her growing up with her adored siblings, her parents' news-clipping service, and decades of Americana-from Coca-Cola to Kissinger and Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon. But amid the happiness lies terror and unimaginable heartbreak and a twelfth birthday that haunts her still. As Ellen tries to make sense of her adulthood,... more...
Reading in Medieval St. Gallby Anna A. Grotans; David Ganz; Tessa Webber
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 139.00Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as German. The manuscripts of the tenth-century scholar and teacher Notker Labeo display how the medieval pedagogic method combined Latin and vernacular literacy. This study has much to contribute to our knowledge of medieval reading. more...
X-Treme Latinby Henry Beard
Penguin Group Inc. 2005; US$ 9.99The 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, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won?t soon forget . . . or even understand. Beard?s gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable... more...