Cicero Legamus Transitional Reader Now Available

Fifth Legamus Title Makes Transition to
Unadapted Cicero Student-Friendly

Cicero Legamus Transitional Reader

by Judith Sebesta and Mark Haynes

xxii + 226 pp (2010) 8½” x 11”
Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-656-1

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iPodius, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers’ downloads store, is now officially open for business. Like iTunes (but for Classics), customers can download entire albums of Latin and Greek music and recitation. One can also select individual MP3 tracks with which to build an audio curriculum as a complement to assigned readings of ancient authors.

Obtain the unabridged reading of the Iliad in Homeric Greek by Stephen G. Daitz or download Catullus 64 as read by Robert P. Sonkowsky. Purchase the newly remastered Latin Music Through the Ages as an MP3 album. Create a combination of audio files that you can download onto any computer.

Illustrated audio books by Rose Williams as read by Dr. E. Del Chrol of Marshall University are available today! Listen, watch, and read on your iPod, iPod touch, iPhone, or other handheld media player capable of playing .m4a files.

Software can be downloaded at iPodius too. Cell phone and iPod flashcards for the vocabulary in Wheelock, AP Vergil, and Latin for the New Millennium, Levels 1 and 2 are available. iPodius users also can choose to purchase licenses for Looking at Latin Online and Review Latin Verbs.

eBook versions of Latin for the New Millennium student workbooks will be made available soon, followed later in 2009 by the student textbooks. Other digital goodies will appear as they are created. In 2010, there will even be a space for teachers to sell their own material including (but not limited to) classically themed novels, classroom helps, and software programs.

Visit iPodius today at ipodius.bolchazy.com. For those about to download, we salute you!

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Latin Proverbs Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Release Date: Oct 02, 2009 Genre: Education © 2009 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.

From Rome to Reformation

From Rome to Reformation:
Early European History for the New Millennium
by Rose Williams





Rose Williams skillfully leads the reader through the maze of power plays and the gradual rise of sovereign states that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Readers will appreciate Williams’ engaging style and her ability to synthesize succinctly this busy period of history. Recognizing the symbiotic relationship between literature and the era in which it was produced, From Rome to Reformation: Early European History for the New Millennium provides a comprehensive overview of the interconnecting historical events, literary figures, and intellectual developments in European history and its Latin literature. This is a perfect companion text for courses in the humanities, western civilization, and Latin.

Features:
• Overview of the history of ideas developed in western civilization
• Assessment of the critical events in early European history
• Presentation of the key historical and literary figures of early Europe
• Timeline of European history from the fifth century to the eighteenth
• Notes section for Latin and other special terms employed in the text
• Illustrations enhance the text

A longtime Latin instructor at the high school and university level, Rose Williams holds a BA from Baylor University and an MA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with post graduate work in Latin and the Humanities at the University of Dallas and the University of Texas in Arlington. On a Rockefeller Grant she did research at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England and at the University of Pisa. She is the author of numerous classics textbooks and teaching guides as well as humorous books of Latin phrases. She serves on various classics consultant boards and maintains a website, www.roserwilliams.com, devoted to Latin teaching materials.

xviii + 95pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-718-6

Click here to see From Rome to Reformation at our website.

The Journey of Odysseus

Follow Your Fates presents:
The Journey of Odysseus
by Ed DeHoratius
illustrated by Drian Delandro Hardison



You are Odysseus, the wiliest hero of ancient Greece. Your love for family is as strong as your quest for adventure. What will you do, when given the choice of immortality? Or when a man-eating monster has you and your men trapped in his cave?

In The Journey of Odysseus, you face the same challenges as Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey, but you are in control of your destiny. Only one path brings success and satisfaction. Fifteen others lead to death, defeat, shame, or unending regret.

Readers ages 8 and up will experience Odysseus’ journeys firsthand in Ed DeHoratius’ dramatic text, dynamically illustrated by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison.

Special Features:

• Prose story of the Odyssey that puts you right in the action
• 30 different endings—depending on your choices
• 5 illustrations by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison
• Visit http://www.bolchazy.com/followyourfates/ for author podcasts and more

Ed DeHoratius teaches Latin and classics in the Boston area. He spends his free time with his wife and three sons, cooking, coaching soccer, and honing his woodworking skills. He holds an AB from Duke University in Classical Languages and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and an MEd and MA in Latin from Boston College, and has published two books, along with articles and book reviews.

x + 116pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-710-0

Click here to see The Journey of Odysseus at our website.

Companion website at www.bolchazy.com/followyourfates.

The Clay-footed SuperHeroes

The Clay-footed SuperHeroes

by Rose Williams


Designed for students unfamiliar with the classical world, The Clay-footed SuperHeroes provides a very accessible introduction to the SuperHeroes of classical mythology including such luminaries as Jason, Theseus, Heracles, Odysseus, and Aeneas. Student and general reader alike will enjoy Williams’ wry sense of humor and her appreciation for the improbable. This book is an excellent text of manageable size and complexity for students beginning their study of literature, the humanities, or Latin and Greek. General readers will be pleased to acquire the foundation necessary to understand these stories which have so influenced art and literature through the ages.

Features:

• Narrative chronologically introduces the heroes, their families, and their adventures
• Special Note on the Roman counterparts to the Greek gods
• Glossary of Latin and special terms used in text
• 12 Black & White Illustrations
• Two Maps: Odysseus’ Adventures & Aeneas’ Journey to Rome

A longtime Latin instructor at the high school and university level, Rose Williams holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with post graduate work in Latin and the Humanities at the University of Dallas and the University of Texas in Arlington. On a Rockefeller Grant she did research at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England and at the University of Pisa. She is the author of numerous classics textbooks and teaching guides as well as humorous books of Latin phrases. She serves on various classics consultant boards and maintains a website, www.roserwilliams.com, devoted to Latin teaching materials.

x + 70pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-719-3

Click here to see The Clay-footed SuperHeroes at our website.

Latin for the New Millennium: Student Workbook, Level 2

Student Workbook and Teacher's Manual for Level 2 Now Available.

This new complete introductory course to the Latin language, suitable for both high school and college students, consists of two volumes, each accompanied by a teacher's manual and students' workbooks. The strategy employed for teaching and learning incorporates the best of both the reading approach and the more abstract grammatical method. The choice of vocabulary in each chapter reflects ancient authors commonly studied for the AP* Latin examinations. There are exercises designed for oral use, as well as a substantial core of more conventional exercises in each chapter. The readings, pictures, and supplementary inserts on cultural information illuminate Roman life, civilization, Roman history, and mythology, as well as the continuing use of Latin after antiquity and its vigorous literary tradition in such periods as the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Each chapter also includes derivatives, the influence of Latin vocabulary on English, and selected proverbs or common Latin sayings.

Visit our website for details.

A Terence Reader

A Terence Reader
Selections from Six Plays

by William S. Anderson


Terence’s plays are not merely showcases for his superb Republican Latin style. They represent an obvious post-Plautine shift in the comedy Rome inherited from Greece. There is a new respect for the real human situations behind well-rehearsed comic plots, and questions prod the cultural norms that are depicted on stage.

Latin selections in this edition include sizeable passages from the beginnings, middles, and ends of all six of Terence’s plays, giving the experience of the general structure of his comedy. Notes illuminate Terence’s ingenuity in complicating plots, shifting sympathies, and manipulating character types. This Reader offers a memorable sample of Terence’s comic art, a unique presence in Latin literature.

Features of this edition:

• Introduction that discusses Terence’s enrichment of the comic genre and the hallmarks of his Latin
• 566 lines of Latin text from Terence’s Andria, 28–139; Heauton, 175–256; Phormio, 1–12, 884–989; Hecyra, 198–280; Eunuchus, 539–614; Adelphoe, 1–25, 787–881
• Notes at the back
• Bibliography
• Appendix on Comic Meters in Terence
• Complete Vocabulary

William S. Anderson is emeritus Professor of Latin, University of California at Berkeley. He holds an AB and MA from Cambridge University and BA and PhD from Yale, where he taught for five years before joining the faculty at Berkeley. He has published widely on Horace, Vergil, Ovid, Roman comedy, and Roman satire. His book publications include The Art of the Aeneid (1969; 2nd edition 2005), Essays on Roman Satire (1982), Barbarian Play: Plautus’ Roman Comedy (1993), Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1–5 and 6–10, Text and Commentary (1972; 2nd edition 1997), Why Horace? (1998), and Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid (with L. N. Quartarone, 2002).

128pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-678-3

Click here to see A Terence Reader at our website.

Companion website at www.bolchazy.com/readers.

Wrath of Achilles

Follow Your Fates presents:
The Wrath of Achilles
by Ed DeHoratius
illustrated by Drian Delandro Hardison



You are Achilles, the greatest hero of ancient Greece. You fight with honor and pride. But on the battlefields of Troy you have a decision to make: stay true to your honor code and not fight, or stand beside your countrymen and win even more fame and glory.

In The Wrath of Achilles, you face the same choices as Achilles in Homer’s Iliad, but you are in control of your destiny. Only one path leads to glory. Twelve others lead to death, defeat, or shame.

Readers ages eight and up will experience Achilles’ choices firsthand in Ed DeHoratius’ dramatic text, dynamically illustrated by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison.

Special Features:

• Prose story of the Iliad that lets you control the action
• 13 different endings—depending on your choices
• 5 illustrations by award-winning comic book artist Brian Delandro Hardison
• Visit the book's website for author podcasts and more

Ed DeHoratius teaches Latin and classics in the Boston area. He spends his free time with his wife and three sons, cooking, coaching soccer, and honing his woodworking skills. He holds an AB from Duke University in Classical Languages and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and an MEd and MA in Latin from Boston College, and has published two books, along with articles and book reviews.

x + 62pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-708-7

Click here to see Wrath of Achilles at our website.

Companion website at www.bolchazy.com/followyourfates.

Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2

Student Textbook Now Available.

This new complete introductory course to the Latin language, suitable for both high school and college students, consists of two volumes, each accompanied by a teacher's manual and students' workbooks. The strategy employed for teaching and learning incorporates the best of both the reading approach and the more abstract grammatical method. The choice of vocabulary in each chapter reflects ancient authors commonly studied for the AP* Latin examinations. There are exercises designed for oral use, as well as a substantial core of more conventional exercises in each chapter. The readings, pictures, and supplementary inserts on cultural information illuminate Roman life, civilization, Roman history, and mythology, as well as the continuing use of Latin after antiquity and its vigorous literary tradition in such periods as the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Each chapter also includes derivatives, the influence of Latin vocabulary on English, and selected proverbs or common Latin sayings.

Visit our website for details.

Aesop's Fables in Latin

Aesop's Fable's in Latin:
Ancient Wit and Wisdom from the Animal Kingdom
by Laura Gibbs



This intermediate Latin reader includes eighty Aesop’s fables in Latin prose, taken from the seventeenth-century edition illustrated by Francis Barlow. Selected fables include famous tales, such as “The Tortoise and The Hare,” and many intriguing, lesser known stories.

These short and witty fables are ideal for ancillary reading. Each fable in this edition has its own introduction, an engaging grammar overview, and both vocabulary
and grammar notes. Forty illustrations and numerous Latin proverbs spur thought and
discussion. A Latin-English glossary is included, along with a listing of most frequently used Latin words.

Features:

• Comprehensive introduction with Latin Reading Guide: strategies to increase confidence and comprehension
• 80 Aesop’s fables in Latin, with · introductory comments · handy Dramatis Personae · grammar overview · opposite-page vocabulary notes · same-page grammar notes
• 40 black-and-white illustrations by Francis Barlow
• Over 100 thematically relevant Latin proverbs
• Complete Latin-English glossary
• Select bibliography for further reading
• Companion website, LatinViaFables.com, with access to additional reading aids, vocabulary-building word lists, audio recordings, parsing quizzes, crossword puzzles, interactive discussion space, and lots more!

Laura Gibbs teaches online courses in Mythology and Folklore for the University of Oklahoma. She joined the OU faculty in 1999 after completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught both Latin and Polish. She has translated Aesop’s Fables into English for the Oxford World’s Classicsseries, and developed an ancillary online library of Aesop’s fables in English, Latin, and Greek at Aesopica.net. She is also the author of Latin Via Proverbs: 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin and a follow-up volume, Vulgate Verses: 4000 Sayings from the Bible. You can find out more about Laura’s teaching and web publications at MythFolklore.net.

xxv + 358pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-695-0

Click here to see Aesop's Fables in Latin at our website.

Companion website at aesopus.ning.com.

When in Rome: Best Cartoons of Pompeiiana Newsletter

When in Rome:
Best Cartoons of Pompeiiana Newsletter
edited by Marie Carducci Bolchazy



What could be better? A cartoon book full of favorite characters from ancient Greece and Rome—from the mythological gods, heroes, and monsters everybody knows to the infamous protagonists and incidents of notorious history.

These cartoons, imagined and drawn by over a quarter of a century’s worth of talented Latin students and submitted to Pompeiiana, a newsletter by and for Latin students, will draw smiles of recognition from one and all. No arcane knowledge prerequisite to crack a smile!

Who says Classics can’t be funny?

The Pompeiiana Newsletter was published over a period of 26 years, from 1974 to 2003, and was edited by the founder and director Bernard Barcio, emeritus from Butler University in Indianapolis. The newsletters give testimony to the talent, energy, and enthusiasm of Bernard Barcio.

viii + 80pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-717-9

Click here to see When in Rome at our website.

Betray the Night

Betray the Night: A Novel About Ovid
by Benita Kane Jaro

The poet of love, the wanton princess, the most powerful man
the world has ever seen: a clash of wills and story of love....

In the year 8 AD, at the age of fifty, the most famous poet in Rome, Publius Ovidius Naso, known to us as Ovid, is suddenly exiled by the Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason. His young and beautiful wife Pinaria stays behind to try to salvage something of their lives and to work to bring him home. A woman alone, she is handicapped by the powerlessness of her position. It is not until she leaves behind the world of men to search among the people Rome has forgotten: the women, the slaves, the runaways and temple prostitutes, that she begins to understand what has happened to her life and her husband’s, and what the world around her really is.

Historically accurate, deeply researched, and poetically written, Betray the Night is a sympathetic reading of the position of women, and a study of the terror of power. Exciting and fast moving, it may be read on its own or as a companion to Benita Kane Jaro’s trilogy The Key, The Lock, and The Door in the Wall.

Cover art by Thom Kapheim.

260pp. (2009) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-712-4

Click here to see Betray the Night at our website.

Now available on CD

Latin Music Through the Ages



Now available on CD.

Track list:
1. Virgin's Cradle Hymn
2. Song of the Nuns of Chester
3. Orientis Partibus
4. Mirabile Mysterium
5. O Admirabile Commercium
6. Ave Regina Coelorum
7. Ave Generosa
8. Hodie Christus Natus Est
9. Ubi Caritas
10. Ave Verum
11. Dulcis Amica
12. Non Nobis, Domine
13. O Sacrum Convivium
14. Diversos Diversa Iuvant
15. Amo, amas
16. Poculum Elevatum
17. O Vos Omnes

Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader

Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader
by Ronnie Ancona & David J. Murphy


The LEGAMUS Transitional Readers are innovative texts that form a bridge between the initial study of Latin via basal textbooks and the reading of authentic author texts. This series of texts is being developed by a special committee of high school and college teachers to facilitate this challenging transition.

Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader introduces students to Latin selections from Horace’s Satires 1.4 and 1.6 (47 lines) and Odes 1.5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.23, 1.37, 2.10, 3.9, and 3.30 (156 lines). Introductory materials include an overview of the life and works of Horace, historical context, and bibliography. Appendices on grammar, figures of speech, and Horatian meter, as well as a pull-out vocabulary complete the book’s innovative features. After finishing Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader, students will be prepared to undertake a more complete study of Horace as an upper level Latin literature, AP*, or college level course.

Features:

• pre-reading materials help students understand underlying cultural and literary concepts
• short explanations of grammatical and syntactical usage, with exercises
• first version of the Latin text with transitional aids: implied words in parentheses, difficult noun-adjective pairings in
• different fonts, words re-ordered to facilitate comprehension
• complete vocabulary and grammatical notes on same and/or facing pages
• post-reading materials encourage appreciation of Horace’s style and reflection on what has been read
• pull-out vocabulary of Latin words not annotated
• second version of Latin text without transitional aids, but with notes

The well-designed and thoughtful features of Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader will allow students a smooth entry into reading, understanding, and appreciating the poems of Horace.

Ronnie Ancona is the author of Time and the Erotic in Horace’s Odes (1994), Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader (2004), Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9 (1999, 2nd edition, 2005), coeditor of Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (2005), coauthor of A Horace Workbook (2005) and A Horace Workbook Teacher’s Manual (2006), and editor of A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature (2007). Her research interests include Latin lyric poetry, women in Greece and Rome, and Latin pedagogy. She is currently Professor of Classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center (CUNY). She has been an AP* Latin Exam Reader and has conducted College Board AP* Latin workshops for teachers. For twenty years she directed Hunter’s MA in the Teaching of Latin program. She is coeditor of a series on women in antiquity from Oxford University Press, formerly from Routledge, and series editor for the new college level Bolchazy-Carducci Latin Readers.

David Murphy earned his PhD in Classics from Columbia University. He taught Latin and Greek for over twenty-five years at the secondary school level, including courses that prepared students for both the Vergil and the Latin Literature AP* exams. He also served as Upper School Head at The Nightingale-Bamford School. He has served as an AP* reader for eight years, the last as a table leader, and was trained to give AP* workshops for teachers. He has given papers at meetings of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, and other conferences and has published on paleography, textual criticism, and ancient philosophy. Publications include “Critical Notes on Plato’s Charmides” in Mnemosyne 60, 2007, and “Doctors of Zalmoxis and Immortality in the Charmides” in Proceedings of the V Symposium Platonicum (2000). Dr. Murphy coauthored A Horace Workbook (2005) and A Horace Workbook Teacher’s Manual (2006).

xxiv + 189pp. (2008) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-676-9

Click here to see Horace: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader at our website.

*AP is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board,
which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

A Lucan Reader

A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War
by Susanna Braund



Lucan’s epic poem, Civil War, portrays the stark, dark horror of the years 49 through 48 BCE, the grim reality of Romans fighting Romans, of Julius Caesar vs. Pompey the Great. Latin passages selected for this edition include Lucan’s analysis of the causes of the civil war, depictions of his protagonists Caesar and Pompey at key moments—Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, the assassination of Pompey as he arrives in Egypt seeking refuge, Cato’s funeral oration for Pompey, Caesar’s visit to the site of Troy—as well as highly atmospheric passages: Pompey’s vision of his dead wife, Julia; and the necromancy performed by the witch Erichtho for Pompey’s son. Notes illuminate Lucan’s attitude towards his material—his reluctance to tackle the topic of civil war, his complicated relationship with Virgil’s Aeneid, and his passionate involvement in the events through the rhetorical device of apostrophe, when he seems to enter the poem as a character himself.

Features of this edition:

• Introduction that situates Lucan in his literary, historical, and ideological context
• 620 lines of Latin text from Lucan’s Civil War: 1.1–45, 67–157, 183–227, 486–504; 3.8–35; 399–445 6.624–53; 7.617–37; 7.647–82, 728–46, 760–811; 8.542–636, 663–88; 9.190–217; 9.961–99
• Notes at the back
• Map of the eastern Mediterranean in Caesar’s day
• Bibliography
• Vocabulary

Susanna Morton Braund was appointed to a Canada Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia in 2007. Her BA and PhD are from the University of Cambridge; she has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol, and London in the UK; and at Yale University and Stanford University in the USA.
Prof. Braund has published extensively on Roman satire and Latin epic poetry, including a monograph on the Satires of Juvenal (1988), a commentary on Juvenal Satires 1–5 (1996), and a translation of Juvenal and Persius for the Loeb Classical Library (2004). Her 1992 translation (Oxford World’s Classics series) of Lucan’s poem has sold more than 12,000 copies to date. Volumes she has edited or coedited include one on the passions in Roman literature and thought (1997) and another on anger in antiquity (1993). Her introductory book, Latin Literature, was
published by Routledge in 2002.

xxxiv + 134pp. (2008) Paperback, ISBN 978-0-86516-661-5

Click here to see A Lucan Reader at our website.

Performing Cicero's Pro Archia

Performing Cicero's Pro Archia
by Jon Hall



This DVD presents a complete performance in Latin of Pro Archia Poeta, Cicero’s defense of the Greek poet Archia and of humanistic education in general.

Designed specifically as a teaching aid for high school and university Latin classes, the DVD includes several special features:

• Full Latin text of Cicero’s Pro Archia, performed by Dr. Jon Hall
• Optional Latin subtitles keyed to the performance of the speech
• English commentary on the speech by Dr. Jon Hall
• Options for playing the complete performance or individual sections of the speech
• Booklet with tips on how to use the DVD, note on pronunciation used, and select bibliography for further reading

Jon Hall has taught in the Classics Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand, since 1993. He is coauthor (with Robin Bond) of Performing Cicero’s Speeches: An Experimental Workshop (Bolchazy-Carducci, 2003) and has published articles and book chapters on the oratory and letters of Cicero.

DVD (2008) ISBN 978-0-86516-707-0

Click here to see Performing Cicero's Pro Archia at our website.

Rena Rhinoceros

Rena Rhinoceros: Rena the Rhinoceros
by Rose Williams



Rena Rhinoceros is the fourth book of the four-book series, "I Am Reading Latin Stories." Original illustrations and a simple Latin story tell of a little rhinoceros who is impatient to be grown up but learns that this takes time.

The book has features that make reading Latin fun for young children as well as educational: simple Latin questions; an English translation; Latin pronunciation guides; a glossary of Latin words; English derivatives; and notes about basic Latin nouns and verbs.

Each book in the series may be read independently, but as the series progresses, new elements of Latin are gradually added. Rena Rhinoceros adds a few more Latin verb forms (and explanations for them) than the first three books.

iv + 20 pp. (2008) Papberback, ISBN 978-0-86516-699-8

Click here to see Rena Rhinoceros at our website.

Taurus Rex

Taurus Rex: King Bull
by Rose Williams



Taurus Rex is the third book of the four-book series, "I Am Reading Latin Stories." Original illustrations and a simple Latin story tell of a bull who learns that size is not everything and that small folk can help their friends.

The book has features that make reading Latin fun for young children as well as educational: simple Latin questions; an English translation; Latin pronunciation guides; a glossary of Latin words; English derivatives; and notes about basic Latin nouns and verbs.

Each book in the series may be read independently, but as the series progresses, new elements of Latin are gradually added. Taurus Rex has a few more Latin vocabulary words than do the first two as well as the basic verb possum and some simple infinitives

iv + 24 pp. (2008) Papberback, ISBN 978-0-86516-700-1

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Octavus Octopus

Octavus Octopus: Octavus the Octopus
by Rose Williams



Octavus Octopus is the second book of the four-book series, "I Am Reading Latin Stories." Original illustrations and a simple Latin story tell of a little octopus who does not appreciate his home until he leaves it.

The book has features that make reading Latin fun for young children as well as educational: simple Latin questions; an English translation; Latin pronunciation guides; a glossary of Latin words; English derivatives; and notes about basic Latin nouns and verbs.

Each book may be read independently, but as the series progresses, new elements of Latin are gradually added. Octavus has a few more Latin vocabulary words than does Ursus et Porcus (first in the series), and it mades use of a few adjectives and the basic verb sum.

iv + 26 pp. (2008) Papberback, ISBN 978-0-86516-698-1

Click here to see Octavus Octopus at our website.