By LeaAnn A. Osburn, Thomas J. Sienkewicz

Description

Note: This title is a January/February eLitterae special. This offer is valid for one copy, prepaid, no returns, speical price is not available to distributors. Offer expires 02/28/10.

This reader contains selections (about 200 lines) from Vergil's Aeneid, Books I, II, and IV, designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Vergil. Passages are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, complete vocabulary, notes designed for reading comprehension, and other reading aides. Introductory materials and illustrations are included.

Special Features

• pre-reading materials for each passage of Latin, designed to help the student understand the underlying cultural and literary concepts in the Latin passage.
• short explanations related to the grammatical and syntactical usages that will be found in the passage, accompanied by exercises.
• the first version of the Latin text with gapped words in parentheses and difficult noun-adjective pairings highlighted by the use of a different font
• complete vocabulary and grammatical notes on the page facing the Latin passage. Any vocabulary word found in the passage but not in the notes is found in the pull-out vocabulary at the back of the book
• the second version of the Latin text in its unchanged form.
• literary notes on the page facing the unchanged Latin text
• post-reading materials for each passage designed to help the student understand Vergil's style of writing and to allow the student to reflect upon what has been read.
• the last four Latin passages do not contain any of the transitional aides such as gapped words or the use of fonts. Notes on grammar, vocabulary, and literary analysis continue to be on the page facing the passage.