Beginning Latin Poetry Reader: 70 Selections from the Great Periods of Roman Verse and DramaMcGraw Hill Professional, 05.01.2006 - 320 Seiten Embrace your Roman muse! As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts. Requiring only a grounding in the basics, Beginning Latin Poetry Reader lets you explore the rich and diverse range of Latin verse, including epics, comedies, satires, lyric poetry, and even graffiti! Inside you'll find seventy selections from authors of the early Republic such as Plautus and Terrance as well as those of the Golden and Silver Ages such as Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal--all supported by helpful footnotes and English translations. This book also includes a clear overview of Latin syntax and the metrics of its verse, a glossary of all Latin words found in the readings, and a time line showing the historical and literary context of each author. Lose yourself in:
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... Vergil's Aeneid was in 12 books and so required 12 rolls. Shorter works could have been combined on a single roll (for example, I—Iorace's Ars poética, which ran to 476 lines), but no one roll comprised what we to~ day would consider a ...