Complete Latin is a comprehensive book and audio course that takes you from beginner to advanced level. This new edition contains for the first time key Latin texts on audio to give you extra depth and context and to bring the Classical World to life. -Learn proverbs - including those taken from Erasmus's collection, the Adagia -Move on to graded readings drawn from Martial, Vergil, Caesar, Cicero and other classical authors -31 learning units -Based...

Presents one thousand Latin words accompanied by an illustration and as part of a larger picture.

What use is Latin? It's a question we're often asked by those who see the language of Cicero as no more than a cumbersome heap of ruins, something to remove from the curriculum. In this sustained meditation, Gardini gives us his sincere and brilliant reply: Latin is, quite simply, the means of expression that made us-and continues to make us-who we are. In Latin, the rigorous and inventive thinker Lucretius examined the nature of our world; the poet...

Covers the fundamentals of Latin grammar.

The classic beginning Latin texbook offers forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors, along with self-tutorial exercises and an answer key for independent study.

"Latin may be a 'dead' language, but it's all around us--in science, philosophy, religion, and at the root of English grammar. From 'carpe diem' to the more obscure 'alea iacta est,' classicist Maia Lee-Chin explains the fascinating origins of many Latin phrases still in use--as well as those that have been lost to the ages. Each entry includes a direct translation, pronunciation, attribution, origin, and a striking, full-page illustration by Italian...