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War with Hannibal: Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student

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Description for War with Hannibal: Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student Paperback. Presents a Latin prose for beginning and intermediate Latin students in secondary schools and colleges. This book helps students make the transition from the simplified Latin of a first-year textbook to the complex prose of the second-year curriculum. It offers explanations of grammar and syntax. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CJBR. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.

This edition of Book III of Eutropius’s Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a student’s first encounter with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of Roman history that students find the most interesting—the  Second Punic War fought against Carthage—and the original Latin text is supplemented with considerable learning support. Full annotations on every page, detailed commentary on grammar and syntax, and a glossary designed specifically for the text allow students to build both their confidence and their reading skills.

The commentary in the back of the book is cross-referenced ... Read more

  • Wheelock’s Latin, 6th Edition
  • Latin: An Intensive Course by Moreland and Fleischer
  • Ecce Romani II, 3rd Edition
  • Latin for Americans, Level 2
  • Jenney’s Second Year Latin
  • Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar  

Macrons have been added to the entire text in accordance with the vowel quantities used in the Oxford Latin Dictionary. Additional resources include an unannotated version of the text for classroom use, supplementary passages in English from other ancient authors, and appendixes with a timeline of events and maps and battle plans.

The text may be used in secondary schools and colleges as early as the first year of study. The copious translation help, notes, and cross-references also make it ideal for independent learners.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300139181
SKU
V9780300139181
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Ref
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About Brian Beyer
Brian Beyer teaches Latin at Montgomery High School in Skillman, NJ.

Reviews for War with Hannibal: Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student
"Exceedingly accurate, clearly presented, and annotated with just the right amount of help . . . it answers better than any other text I've seen the perennial problem of how to do the transition from learning the basics of Latin to actually reading Latin texts."—Denis Feeney, Princeton University "To the best of my knowledge, this is the ... Read more

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