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Reading Materials: Required 1. Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition, ed. J.F. Mountford, rpt. NY: Aristide Caratzas 1997 (= BA). Available in 617 Hamilton, $6.50. 2. E.C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1959, rpt. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. $20.00. Available at Papyrus Booksellers (114th & Broadway). You will also need to have at hand a good Latin dictionary (either Lewis & Short or the Oxford Latin Dictionary is recommended) as you work, and whatever grammar (beyond the introductory textbook level) you find handy (either Gildersleeve & Lodge, = G&L, or Allen & Greenough, = A&G, are good standard grammars). These can both be found in the Classics Library, 617 Hamilton, and in the Ancient & Medieval Studies Room in Butler Library, 6th floor (non-circulating). Recommended (Some of these are available via Library Reserves in Butler--see Library Reserves section; those marked with an asterisk (*) are available in 617 Hamilton, Classics Library) G.S. Aldrete, Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1999. *J.H. Allen & J.B. Greenough, A New Latin Grammar (reprint, NY 1975). *W. Sidney Allen, Vox Latina: A guide to the pronunciation of classical Latin, Cambridge University Press 1965. *W.S. Allen, Accent and rhythm: prosodic features of Latin and Greek, Cambridge 1973. Aristotle On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, trans., intr. & notes by G. Kennedy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991. Asconius: Commentaries on Five Speeches of Cicero, ed. & trans. Simon Squires, Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 1990. *[Cicero], Ad Herennium, trans. H. Caplan (in Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1989 (orig. printed 1954). B.L. D'Ooge, Latin Composition for secondary schools, Part I, NY: Ginn & Company 1904. (4 copies) *B.L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge, Latin Grammar (Macmillan 1925, now printed by Bolchazy-Carducci, Illinois). Maud Gleason, Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome, Princeton 1995. *J.B. Hoffmann & A. Szantyr, Lateinische Syntax und Stilistik, M�nchen: Beck 1965. J.A. Kleist, S.J., Aids to Latin Prose Composition, NY: Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss 1912. Caroline Kroon, Discourse Particles in Latin: A study of nam, enim, autem, vero and at, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, Publisher 1995. [Vol. 4 in series Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology, ed. A. Rijksbaron, Irene J.F De Jong, H. Pinkster.] Kuehner-Stegmann, Ausfuehrliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache, Vol. 2, parts 1 and 2, on Syntax. E. Laughton, "The Learner and the Latin Period," Greece and Rome 11 (1942) 84-91. *Titi Livi Ab Vrbe Condita, ed. R.M. Ogilvie, vol. I (Books I-V), Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1974 (with rpts.). C. Murgia, Review Article, "Analyzing Cicero's Style," Classical Philology 76 (1981) 301-313. R. Ogilvie, Horae Latinae: Studies in synonyms and syntax, ed. A. Souter, Longmans, Green, and Co., London/NY 1901 (now out of print). A useful approach to Latin vocabulary that you may want to imitate, arranging vocabulary to be learnt or studied into thematic word groups. *Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta, ed. H. Malcovati (4th edition, with previous prefaces attached). *Elizabeth Rawson, Intellectual Life in the Late Roman Republic, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1985. [Especially Chapter 8: "Grammatica: the study of language," 117-131.] *L.. Reynolds & N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 2nd ed., Oxford 1974 (rpts.). R.H. Robins, Ancient & Mediaeval Grammatical Theory in Europe, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press 1971 (first pub. 1951). D.A. Russell, An Anthology of Latin Prose, Oxford 1990. G. Saintsbury, A History of English Prose Rhythm, Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press 1965 (orig. pub. 1912). Tacitus: Annals, Book I, ed. N.P. Miller, Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd. 1959 (with rpts.). *L.P. Wilkinson, Golden Latin Artistry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1963 (rpt. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press 1985). *E.C. Woodcock, A New Latin Syntax, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1959, rpt. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Illinois (1985, 1987, etc.). |