Synopses & Reviews
This second-year Latin reader follows
Modern Latin Book One, and
continues the author's innovative approach to the teaching of Latin.
The author's theory is that one can best learn to read Latin by reading
Latin, and his books are geared to that theory. In these pages the second-
year student reads selections that amount to an informal history of
Rome. He meets such writers and poets as Martial, Horace, Caesar,
Seneca, Petronius, Pliny, and Gellius. The selections are climaxed with
a selection of Ovid's delightful myths in poetry.
As in Book One, the vocabulary and grammar are basic, enlarged to
serve the student's needs as he progresses into more advanced selections.
The author continues to emphasize the impact of Latin on the English language and its relevance to the modern age. As he amply demonstrates, "The Latin language is all about us. An item we read in today's newspaper reminds us of a Roman parallel, and anything we read in English literature is likely to have a Latin ancestor." The student who learns Latin by this approach cannot help but be enriched in his understanding and use of language.
Review
"Particularly suitable, because of the excellence of its word work and the liveliness of its reading selections, for those teachers whose aims are vocabulary building and rapid reading of interesting Latin texts". The Classical Outlook