Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume II: Selections from Horace, Lucretius, Seneca, Suetonius, and Tacitus

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This reader contains the prescribed passages for the History and Good Living portions of the IB® Latin Syllabus with examinations in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Same- and facing-page notes provide historical background, cultural context, and grammatical assistance. Introductions to each selection orient students to significant themes and events. The reader includes introductions to each author, appendices on meter and on literary terms, and a historical timeline. The prescribed passages for Vergil, Love Poetry, and Women can be found in Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume I.

Special Features

• Introductions to History and Good Living
• Unadapted Latin passages with same- and facing-page notes:
  History:
  SL and HL
  • • Tacitus,

  Annales

  • 2.70–73, 82–83; 3.1–6, 10–18

  HL Only

  • • Suetonius,

  Tiberius

  • 22–26, 33–36, 39–42, 52–53

  Good Living:
  SL and HL

  • • Lucretius,

  De Rerum Natura

  • 1.54–135; 2.1–61 • Horace,

  Carmina

  • 1.9, 2.16, 3.26, 4.7 • Seneca,

  Epistulae Morales

  • 1, 16

  HL Only

  • • Seneca,

  De Tranquillitate Animi

  2–3
• Introductions for each author and for each selection
• Metrical appendix
• Appendix of rhetorical devices and figures of speech
• Historical timeline