Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 874.01
EAN: 9780865164826
Edition: Student Guide
ISBN: 0865164827
Label: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Manufacturer: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 261
Publication Date: May 01, 2004
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Studio: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Student Edition The passion and immediacy of Catullus’ lyrics can for readers obscure the complexity of his poems’ moods and subjects. Informed by the latest in Catullan scholarship, Ronnie Ancona gives Catullus’ poems their due. Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader presents the forty-two poems that are required reading for the 2005 AP Latin Literature Exam. The format includes line-by-line notes and vocabulary and a variety of enhancements, making it easily accessible to both teachers and students. A separate teacher’s guide is also available. Special Features... Ancona’s pedagogical expertise and scholarly work on Catullus have produced an outstanding text that features: introduction to Catullus’ life, historical/social and literary background, and the Catullan corpus Latin text of 42 poems excerpted from Catullus, ed/ D. F. S. Thomson (Univ. Toronto 1997). Includes Catullus 1-5, 7, 8, 10–14a. 22. 30, 31, 35, 36, 40, 43–46, 49–51, 60, 64 (lines 50–253), 65, 68–70, 72, 76, 77, 84–87, 96, 101, 109, 116 bibliography a short, thought-provoking introduction to each poem line-by-line notes and vocabulary on same page as Latin text appendices: meters; metricals terms/tropes or figures of thought/rhetorical figures or figures of speech Latin text of poems without notes or vocabulary complete vocabulary

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Rating: - Perfect For My Needs...Thirsty For More
I have been learning Latin for a couple of years on my own with an aim to take the AP exam before returning to school. Catullus has always been one of my favorites, having been introduced to him fairly early on (Wheelock's Latin gives you the unaltered "Kisses" poem as an exercise somewhere around the middle of the book). Since I had read the same group of three or four poems again and again and again in my first couple of years of Latin and after reading "Catullus and His World," I was more than ... Read More

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Rating: - Exceptional
This is an exceptional book for students learning to read Latin poetry. We have just about finished it in my AP course, and the students have found the vocabulary and grammar notes placed on the same page with the text extremely helpful. It also includes a glossary in the back as well as an extra copy of each poem without notes. This is extremely helpful for studying. Professor Ancona has created a text that is truly classroom friendly.

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