Oxford Latin Course - Part III (English, Latin, Paperback, 2nd ed.)

Completely revised and re-designed to incorporate the results of a nationwide survey of high school and college instructors, and for the first time available in a special version for the North American reader, the Oxford Latin Course combines the best features of both modern and traditional methods of Latin study. It offers an exciting, stimulating approach to Latin based on a lively yet scholarly reading of excerpts from original texts.

In this four-volume North American edition, the order of declensions corresponds to customary U.S. usage, and American spellings are used throughout. In addition, full-color illustrations and photographs are introduced for the first time, while an expanded Teacher's Book with translations accompanies each of the four parts, making the volumes ideal for self-teaching. Part III is built around a narrative detailing the life of Horace which closely follows known historical facts, and the new Part IV is a reader consisting of extracts from Caesar, Cicero, Catullus, Virgil, Livy, and Ovid. In a rather unorthodox fashion, the authors have diversified the instruction material by creating a truthful representation of daily life in Rome in the first century BC. They bring real, ordinary Romans to life--with their everyday activities, concerns, and habits--enabling readers to develop a thorough understanding of Roman civilization during the time of Cicero and Augustus.

The second edition of the Oxford Latin Course features a more lucid and accessible grammar course, revised narrative passages, new background sections on Roman civilization, more emphasis on the roles Roman women played in the Empire, and a greater variety of exercises, along with review chapters and tests. It offers an exceptionally engaging and attractive introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Rome--one that builds language skills effectively and is easy to use.