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Suburani
by Hands Up EducationExcerpt from the back cover: "It's the spring of AD 64 and, as dawn breaks over the Subura in Rome, a young woman calls from high in an apartment building to her aunt working in a bar below. While her father collects the rent from the other tenants, a falling tile narrowly misses a senator's son passing through the streets in a litter. Was it an accident? In the Subura, your life hangs by a thread.
Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi's Musica Plana and Musica Speculativa (Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature)
by Prosdocimo de' BeldomandiAvailable in English for the first time, Prosdocimo's Tractatus plane musice (1412) and Tractatus musice speculative (1425) are exemplary texts for understanding the high sophistication of music theory in the early fifteenth century. Known for considering music as a science based on demonstrable mathematical principles, Prosdocimo praises Marchetto for his theory of plainchant but criticizes his influential Lucidarium for its heterodox mathematics. In dismissing Marchetto as a “mere performer,” Prosdocimo takes up matters as broad as the nature and definition of music and as precise as counterpoint, tuning, and ecclesiastical modes. The treatises also reveal much about Prosdocimo’s understanding of plainchant; his work with Euclid's Elementa; and his familiarity with the music theory of Boethius, Macrobius, and Johannes de Muris. A foremost authority on Italian music theory of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Jan Herlinger consults manuscripts from Bologna, Cremona, and Lucca in preparing these valuable first critical editions.
A Student Handbook of Latin and English Grammar
by Peter L. Corrigan Robert MondiThe study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely the concepts, terms, and constructions needed for the study of Greek and Latin.A Student Handbook of Latin and English Grammar offers a student-friendly comparative exposition of English and Latin grammatical principles that will prove a valuable supplement to a wide range of beginning Latin textbooks as well as a handy reference for those continuing on to upper-level courses.
Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta Oratio (Annotated Latin Collection)
by Steven M. Cerutti Cicero Gaby HuebnerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cambridge Latin Course (North American Cambridge Latin Course Ser. #Unit 2)
by Cambridge University PressNIMAC-sourced textbook
Cambridge Latin Course (North American Cambridge Latin Course Ser. #Unit 1)
by Cambridge University PressNIMAC-sourced textbook
Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings From Books 1, 2, 4, And 6
by Barbara Weiden Boyd Vergil Bridget Buchholz D. Scott Van HornNIMAC-sourced textbook
Epistola ad Joannem Millium
by Richard Bentley G. P. GooldThe year 1962 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Richard Bentley (1662-1742), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, editor of Paradise Lost, but principally and justly famous as one of the greatest classical scholars. To mark the event, the University of Toronto Press is issuing a special reprint of Alexander Dyce's edition of the Epistola (1691), the work which first brought Bentley fame, and which has long been out of print.<P><P>This Latin exercise was called forth by one of those unhappy productions which, mediocre themselves, have had the ill luck to attract the inspection of genius. In the eighth or ninth century A.D., Joannes Malelas of Antioch, a Greek writer, attempted a chronological record of mankind and in it he had recourse to name or quote from classical works no longer extant. English scholars in the seventeenth century prepared a translation of the chronicle into Latin and an accompanying commentary; just before its publication, under the final editorship of John Mill, Bentley was given an opportunity to read proof-sheets and the result was the Epistola, a collection mainly of some twenty-five notes upon statements found in or topics suggested by Malelas. <P>This extraordinary performance by a scholar of 29 moves from one topic to another over a wide range of ancient literature, explaining or correcting some sixty Greek and Latin authors. The notes are not so much a commentary on the old chronicler as a set of dazzling dissertations pegged upon a random set of appalling howlers, and they reveal prodigious information and gift of divination. Bentley's style in Latin is clear and spirited and seasoned with choice of quotation. <P>The Epistola immediately secured for its writer the fame reserved for men of the rarest excellence and this classic among academic productions is still charged with power to instruct and inspire the scholarship of another era.
Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 4
Developed by the University of Cambridge School Classics Project, this bestselling Latin program provides an enjoyable and carefully paced introduction to the Latin language, complemented by background information on Roman culture and civilization. In the first half of Unit 4, the story reaches its climax and final denouement in and around the court of the Emperor Domitian. There follows a selection of original texts by Roman authors (adapted where necessary), including Catullus, Ovid, Pliny, Tacitus, and Virgil.