Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses (Loeb Classical Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)Some of the monologues here are great for classical monologue requirements. I used this for my audition with the New School for Drama Graduate program and it went over well...

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Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies.

Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies by such writers as Menander, Diphilus, and Philemon. So we have Greek manners of Athens about 300–250 BCE transferred to the Roman stage of about 225–185, with Greek places, people, and customs, for popular amusement in a Latin city whose own culture was not yet developed and whose manners were more severe. To make his plays live for his audience, Plautus included many Roman details, especially concerning slavery, military affairs, and law, with some invention of his own, notably in management of metres. The resulting mixture is lively, genial and humorous, with good dialogue and vivid style. There are plays of intrigue (Two Bacchises, The Haunted House, Pseudolus); of intrigue with a recognition theme (The Captives, The Carthaginian, Curculio); plays which develop character (The Pot of Gold, Miles Gloriosus); others which turn on mistaken identity (accidental as in the Menaechmi; caused on purpose as in Amphitryon); plays of domestic life (The Merchant, Casina, both unpleasant; Trinummus, Stichus, both pleasant).

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plautus is in five volumes.

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Key to Latin Prose Compsition (Latin Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Having studied several languages now, two or three of them intensively, I am convinced that composition is an essential element in achieving true competency. Those studying Latin without a teacher can now get the benefits of a course in composition thanks to this key to North and Hillard's classic exercise book (see my review on its page here at Amazon). Unlike the Focus edition of N&H, this Bolchazy-Carducci reprint of the key is a photographic reproduction--which means that it is free of the numerous typos that plague the Focus publication. Unfortunately, because the Focus and Bolchazy-Carducci republications are based on different editions of the respective originals, some discrepancies exist between the exercises and the answers. These are not numerous, however--I'd guess no more than a couple every few pages--and they are minor. In one passage, for instance, the answer includes a phrase mentioning a "boat" where no boat is mentioned in the sentence to be translated. Nothing to worry about. A Latin teacher will have no trouble making appropriate adjustments and an independent learner should be able to spot the mismatches where they occur. Even very accomplished Latinists, who perhaps could correct student work without a key, ought to have this book around. The translations invariably demonstrate a better Latin style than most students may be expected to possess, and the differences could make good grist for classroom discussion of Latin syntax and word-choice.

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This book is aimed at helping students enhance their command of Latin grammar and vocabulary. The exercises have been structured in a manner that gradually enables students to build their Latin prose skills.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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The Confessions of St. Augustine: Selections from Books I-IX (Bks. I-IX) Review

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(More customer reviews)These excerpts of the Confessions, as may not immediately be clear from the entry, stand as they were written--in Latin. It is an ideal book for practicing Latin. It contains a glossary in the back with all words used in the text. Also, it contains a fantastic introduction which seeks to equip the reader with all of the necessary syntactical developments that have occurred since the Classical period of Latin which Augustine utilizes.

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St. Augustine's work is a masterpiece, a spiritual,intellectual, and psychological autobiography that provides a vitallink between classical and Christian traditions. This illustratededition features passages that show the grandeur and significance ofthe work and includes a section on grammar and style, vocabulary, asummary of innovations in the development of the Latin language, and auseful bibliography.

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Dissertae Sententiae (Latin Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're good at Latin and interested in Chinese philosophy this is a great book. It should be pointed out that there are no footnotes in this edition, so you may need some extra help.
You may also like Commentariorum quos ipse sibi scripsit: Apologia Socratis (Latin Edition) and Chinese Sketches: Life in 19th Century China.
See my 'Latin Reading List'.

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Dissertae SententiaeSic liber inscribitur, quod sententias plerumque contineat, quas Confucius suis cum discipulis edisseruit. Abrupta sunt effata, sensusque ita quandoque concisus, ut attentionis aciem, nisi acuatur, facile fallat. Decem sunt capita in viginti partes dispertita: priora quinque superiorem libri partem conficiunt, cetera inferiorem.www.arepo.biz

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A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuuenalis Saturae (Oxford Classical Texts) Review

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(More customer reviews)A great book for collectors, if you are into latin classical books, this is must. An unusual book to have and great for those who like me enjoy building impressive libraries.

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Two highly influential writers of satirical poetry in the early Roman Empire, Persius and Juvenal are universally admired and enjoyed for the mordant wit and biting irony with which they exposed contemporary life and abuses under the notorious emperors Nero and Domitian. This new and revised edition--the first since the original publication in 1959--conveniently brings together both poets in a single volume, and contains, along with a freshly amended version of the text, a concise apparatus criticus at the foot of each page and a full Preface, giving a comprehensive overview of the state of the text in light of recent scholarship.

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Regulus (Latin) Review

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(More customer reviews)'The Little Prince' is a wonderful story, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), a French writer who also worked to fight the Germans during World War II. The publication story of 'The Little Prince' is an adventure in-and-of itself, as it happened at the height of the war, and just a year prior to Saint-Exupéry disappearance over the Mediterranean while flying a mission with his French air squadron. Saint-Exupéry wrote several books, and illustrated them himself, but 'The Little Prince', about the visitor from outer space not so different from us, but perplexed by our ways, and homesick for his home, touches people to this day in profound ways, making this classic an enduring one.
Translated into Latin, this enigmatic classic becomes even more mysterious, yet (for those who know Latin) still a touching and moving story. Books such as 'The Little Prince' translated into Latin make wonderful tools for learning the language. The book here is translated by Richard Howard, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author, who has more than 150 translation titles to his name. Saint-Exupéry's original artwork is incorporated here, in the proper placement according to the French original. They are in full colour throughout the book.
The language here is basic -- Saint-Exupéry wrote 'The Little Prince' both as a children's book and an adult's book, hence the vocabulary and basic writing, in any language, is fairly simple, another way in which the Latin translation, kept to an easy construction by Howard, helps in the learning of the foreign language.
A great book, one to let out of the box.

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In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.

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Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a smooth and clever translation, perfect for the person who wants an enjoyable quick read to refurbish fluency in the language. The bright style of the original is preserved, and it is obvious that the translator has his own sense of humor as well, playing with words and phrasing without sacrificing accuracy. This book would make an excellent supplementary text for students at about second-year level.
I would like to see the other books in the series put into Latin, although I know that is too much to hope for; however, these books would be a wonderful study series if translated in accord with the level of the book in English, each becoming more complex.

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Latin translation of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in which Harry Potter, a normal eleven-year-old boy, discovers that he is a wizard. Long ago, Harry's parents were killed in a battle with the evil Lord Voldemort. When we first meet Harry, he is living miserably with his repulsive and non-magical (or Muggle) Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley, and their even more revolting son, Dudley. Following a bizarre but hilarious chain of events, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with an outrageous cast of characters, including super-smart Hermione Granger, vile Draco Malfoy, sinister Professor Snape, and the wise Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Adventures galore ensue.

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Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)Very readable translation of Horace, good reading for a winter evening. The famous phrase carpe diem (seize the day or pluck the day) is from one of Horace's odes, in this book.

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The poetry of Horace (born 65 BCE) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. Here is a new Loeb Classical Library edition of the great Roman poet's Odes and Epodes, a fluid translation facing the Latin text.

Horace took pride in being the first Roman to write a body of lyric poetry. For models he turned to Greek lyric, especially to the poetry of Alcaeus, Sappho, and Pindar; but his poems are set in a Roman context. His four books of odes cover a wide range of moods and topics. Some are public poems, upholding the traditional values of courage, loyalty, and piety; and there are hymns to the gods. But most of the odes are on private themes: chiding or advising friends; speaking about love and amorous situations, often amusingly. Horace's seventeen epodes, which he called iambi, were also an innovation for Roman literature. Like the odes they were inspired by a Greek model: the seventh-century iambic poetry of Archilochus. Love and political concerns are frequent themes; here the tone is generally that of satirical lampoons. "In his language he is triumphantly adventurous," Quintilian said of Horace; this new translation reflects his different voices.

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