19 Classics
The Ancient and Medieval World
Adrianna Bakos, Barrie Brill, Niall Christie, Jessica Hemming, Aleksandar Jovanović, and Tracey J. Kinney (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
Licence: CC BY
This introductory text is organized in a modular format, with a general introduction to each topic, a timeline and relevant maps, several primary documents to help students to better understand the time period, and at least two visual or audio sources to add a different dimension to that understanding.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB
Beginners Intensive Latin, Volume 1
Claude Eilers (McMaster University)
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Textbook for Beginners Latin.
Format: PDF
Suggested for: CLAS 312
Brevissima: 1001 Tiny Latin Poems
Laura Gibbs
2022
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This book is divided into 3 parts, with Part 1 containing only the most commonly used Latin vocabulary, Part 2 containing a word that is less commonly used, and part 3 containing two words which are less commonly used.
Format: Online, PDF, EPUB, and more.
Suggested for: CLAS 312
Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary, and English Translation
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge University)
2011
Licence: CC BY
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape, and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exquisite and sophisticated prose.
This volume provides a portion of the original text of Cicero’s speech in Latin, a detailed commentary, study aids, and a translation. As a literary artifact, the speech gives us insight into how the supreme master of Latin eloquence developed what we would now call rhetorical “spin”. As a historical document, it provides a window into the dark underbelly of Rome’s imperial expansion and exploitation of the Near East.
Ingo Gildenhard’s illuminating commentary on this A-Level set text will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both high school and undergraduate level. It will also be a valuable resource to Latin teachers and to anyone interested in Cicero, language and rhetoric, and the legal culture of Ancient Rome.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for: CLAS 312
Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation
Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge University) and Louise Hodgson (Durham University)
2014
Licence: CC BY
In republican times, one of Rome’s deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristoc