MAXDOMARUS.COM | Online Bookstore in Associates with Amazon

Writing Passion-A Catullus Reader

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

Writing Passion-A Catullus Reader

The Labors of Aeneas, by: Rose Williams

This paperback book retells the story of The Aeneid in a light-hearted and understandable manner with humorous insights and asides. This volume makes Books I-XII of VergilÂ’s Aeneid enjoyable and easy to follow and may be used in conjunction with the Latin text of VergilÂ’'s Aeneid in high school classrooms.

Also available:

Once Upon the Tiber - ISBN 0865166684
The Comic History of Rome - ISBN 0865163332

The Labors of Aeneas

 

Vergil Vocabulary Cards for AP Selections, by: Dennis De Young

These vocabulary cards allow students an easy way to memorize Latin vocabulary words that appear five or more times in the AP* Vergil syllabus selections. The cards are divided into three groups: (1) words occurring 15 or more times, (2) words occurring 9–14 times, and (3) words occurring 5–8 times. Students can memorize Latin to English or English to Latin, and use the cards to help them memorize the full lexical forms of the Latin vocabulary words. These cards make vocabulary review a breeze! Also included are removable full-page cards. These include word lists of all vocabulary occurring in the AP* Vergil selections; a summary of grammatical forms from the popular Graphic Latin Grammar cards that allows students easy access to these references while studying; and additional reference cards on Meter, and Rhetorical Terms, Figures of Speech, and Rhetorical Devices.

Vergil Vocabulary Cards for AP Selections