Series Editor: Ronnie Ancona,
Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center
These Readers, written by experts in the field, provide well-annotated Latin selections to be used as authoritative introductions to Latin authors, genres, or topics. Designed for intermediate/advanced college Latin students, BC Latin Readers each contain approximately 600 lines of Latin, making them ideal to use in combination or as a “shake-it-up” addition to a time-tested syllabus.
Newest Release
A Roman Army Reader
Twenty-One Selections from Literary, Epigraphic, and Other Documents
Dexter Hoyosxlviii + 214 pp., 7 illustrations and 2 maps (2013) 5” x 7¾” Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-715-5
This edition offers a compact portrait, in peace and in war, of the ancient Roman army, one of history’s most famous and successful military organizations. Twelve literary passages combine with nine epigraphic and other documents to show soldiers who don’t merely fight: Between battles, they march, drill, camp, construct public works, eat, drink, and—sometimes illegally—marry and have children. At times, and invariably with bloodstained results, troops also involved themselves in Roman politics. With selections from a variety of sources and a time span ranging from the First Punic War to the reign of M. Aurelius, this compact reader is like no other currently available.
Features: Introduction to the Roman army • 858 lines of unadapted Latin text in 21 selections: 12 from literary works (Cato Origines, Cicero Ad Atticum, Caesar Bellum Civile, Livy Ab Urbe Condita, Juvenal Satires, Tacitus Annals and Histories, Vegetius De Re Militari, Suetonius Gaius and Claudius) and 9 from documentary sources • Notes at the back and complete vocabulary • Suggested reading; appendices of original texts and chronologies • Two maps and seven illustrations
Dexter Hoyos is Honorary Associate Professor and research affiliate at Sydney University, Australia, where he taught from 1972 until 2007. Author of numerous articles on Roman government, diplomacy, warfare, and historiography, and on Latin epigraphy and pedagogy, his books include Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy (Exeter/Bristol Phoenix 2008); Truceless War: Carthage’s Fight for Survival, 241–237 b.c. (Brill 2007); Livy: Hannibal’s War, Books 21 to 30 (with translator J. C. Yardley, Oxford 2006); Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Mediterranean World, 247–183 b.c. (Routledge 2003); Unplanned Wars: The Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars (de Gruyter 1998), and Latin: How to Read it Fluently—A Practical Manual (CANE Educational 1997).
Other Titles Available in the BC Reader Series
| An Apuleius Reader Selections from the Metamorphoses Ellen D. Finkelpearl |
A Lucan Reader Selections from Civil War Susanna Braund |
A Seneca Reader Selections from Prose and Tragedy James Ker |
| A Caesar Reader Selections from Bellum Gallicum and Bellum Civile, and from Caesar’s Letters, Speeches, and Poetry W. Jeffrey Tatum |
A Martial Reader Selections from the Epigrams Craig Williams |
A Suetonius Reader Selections from De Vita Caesarum and the Life of Horace Josiah Osgood |
| A Cicero Reader Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches, with Five Letters James M. May |
A Plautus Reader Selections from Eleven Plays John Henderson |
A Terence Reader Selections from Six Plays William S. Anderson |
| A Latin Epic Reader Selections from Ten Epics Alison Keith |
A Roman Verse Satire Reader Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal Catherine C. Keane |
A Tibullus Reader Seven Selected Elegies Paul Allen Miller |
| A Livy Reader Selections from Ab Urbe Condita Mary Jaeger |
A Sallust Reader Selections from Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum, and Historiae Victoria E. Pagán |
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