LATIN III

Magistra Chilson

Salvete, discipuli et parentes!

Course objectives and description:

• To continue to develop skills in reading and comprehending Latin texts
• To study grammatical principles in Latin which transfer to English
• To broaden and deepen the students' English vocabulary through the study of word origins
• To study the language, customs, and world view of a society from a different time and place than our own and to make connections between the two cultures.

Course content:

In order to integrate culture with language, the following themes will be studied in Stages 29-34 in the textbook, Cambridge Latin III Unit 3.

• Roman Builders
• The City of Rome
• Patronage
• Roman Society
• Astrology, Philosophy and other Beliefs; Stoicism and Christianity
• Entertainment
• Freedmen

Additional readings may include some of the following:

Stories from Greek and Roman Mythology: The Heroes: Perseus, Hercules, Jason, and Ulysses

A unit on the history of the Julio-Claudian Emperors

Poetry and satire introduced through the reading of several of Martial's Epigrams.

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