Reading Livy’s Rome: Selections from Books I-VI Of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

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Student Edition High-interest selections from Books I-VI of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita are presented; the beginning of the book contains simplified or paraphrased passages of Livy with copious notes and vocabulary; the middle of the book contains authentic Livian passages again with copious notes but with less vocabulary aids; the final section of the book features authentic passages of Livy with no notes or vocabulary aids. Special Features A graded reader designed to prepare students to read sight passages of Livy such as those presented on the high level IB exam. This innovative reader takes students who have learned the essentials of Latin grammar by stages into reading their first extended passages of a Latin author. Features include… Extensive same-page glossaries Inserts on features of Livy’’s language Simple Latin paraphrases for pre-reading English section titles for easy context Graduated Livian Latin passages Graduated notes on sytax and grammar
Also available:
Rome and Her Kings: Extracts from Livy I – ISBN 0865164509Scipio Africanus: The Conqueror of Hannibal (Selections from Livy : Books XXVI-XXX) – ISBN 0865162085
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Review

I believe that the overall format of Milena’s and Terry’s proposed text is well conceived, and that in their own introduction/preface they articulate well their rationale. I like very much their practice of writing a Latin periphrasis for the earlier selections as a way of ‘initiating’ students into reading Livy’s Latin–which is difficult, but (as Milena and Terry put it) very much operae pretium. I believe that, as written, the periphrases should achieve their intended purpose.
I also like Milena’s and Terry’s practice of slightly adapting Livy’s text in the beginning, but gradually phasing out both the periphrases and the adaptations of Livy’s text. Although perhaps one could argue for continuing the periphrases for a couple of more of the selections, I don’t see that as an absolute necessity or as being any serious defect in the overall plan of this text.
In short, it is the sort of text that I myself would be happy to use with my undergraduate students….. –Dwight A. Castro, Westminister College (PA)I have been looking forward to this new text by Minkova and Tunberg. Delighted with the innovative and compelling approach which they adopted in their recent Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Focus Publishing, 2004), I was expecting a text with which to transport intermediate Latin students beyond grammar drills into the place where practice begins to pay off the reading of a ‘real’ author. I hoped for a work which would honor the intelligent student’s thirst for a literary experience while still providing some lexical and syntactical assistance. In Reading Livy’s Rome I have not been disappointed.
But be prepared for something new. You will find all the features of a school reader in Reading Livy’s Rome-historical and biographical discussion, grammar notes, glossary-but reformatted to facilitate the authors’ goal: easing the student into reading Latin as literature. The canonic narratives from Livy’s early books are here, but newly arranged: a