By David J. Murphy, Ronnie Ancona

Description

This reader contains 203 lines of Latin selections from Horace (Satire 1.4, 103–126; 1.6, 70–92; Odes 1.5; 1.23; 1.11; 3.9; 2.10; 1.37; 1.9; 3.30). It is designed for students moving from elementary or intermediate Latin into reading the authentic Latin of Horace. Introductory materials include an overview of the life and work of Horace, bibliography, and description of Horatian meters.

Latin selections are accompanied by pre-reading materials, grammatical exercises, vocabulary notes, notes to assist reading comprehension, and other reading aids. Appendices on grammar and figures of speech and a pull-out vocabulary of words appearing frequently in Horace round out the book’s innovative features.

Special Features

• pre-reading materials help students understand underlying cultural and literary concepts
  
• short explanations of grammatical and syntactical usage, with exercises
  
• first version of the Latin text with transitional aids: implied words in parentheses, difficult noun-adjective pairings in different fonts, words re-ordered to facilitate comprehension
  
• complete vocabulary and grammatical notes on facing pages
  
• post-reading materials encourage appreciation of Horace’s style and reflection on what has been read
  
• pull-out vocabulary of Latin words not annotated
  
• second version of Latin text without transitional aids, but with notes

Author Bios

Ronnie Ancona is the author of Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes (1994), Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader (2004), Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 (1999, 2nd edition, 2005), coeditor of Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (2005), and editor of Latin Scholarship/Latin Pedagogy (forthcoming). Her research interests include Latin lyric poetry, women in Greece and Rome, and Latin pedagogy. She is currently Professor of Classics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center (CUNY), and Director of Hunter's MA in Adolescence Education, Latin. She has been an AP Latin Exam Reader and has conducted College Board AP Latin workshops for teachers. David J. Murphy earned his PhD in Classics from Columbia University. Since 1982 he has taught Latin and Greek at the secondary school level, including courses that prepare students for both the Vergil and the Latin Literature AP exams. He served as an AP reader for eight years, the last as a table leader, and was trained to give AP workshops for teachers. He has taught Classics since 1993 at the Nightingale-Bamford School, where he is now Head of the Upper School. He has given papers at meetings of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and other conferences and has published various articles on paleography, textual criticism, and ancient philosophy. Publications include “The Basis of Plato’s Charmides” in Mnemosyne 55 (2002), and “Doctors of Zalmoxis and Immortality in the Charmides” in Proceedings of the V Symposium Platonicum (2000).