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Title: Latin Via Ovid: A First Course by Norma Goldman, Jacob E. Nyenhuis ISBN: 0-8143-1732-4 Publisher: Wayne State University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1982 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Latin Via Ovid
Comment: Latin Via Ovid is a wonderful book. I'm on my second semester of Latin, planning to taking two years, and this book has become my constant companion.
Each chapter has a story in Latin to translate, Verba (words, aka vocab words), Structure, Exercises, and Etymology. The stories (with the exception of the first chapter) are myths (for example, Atalanta et Hippomenes, Europa et Taurus, Echo et Narcissus, Bellum Troianum). Having a teacher certainly helps, but I could and would do the course alone if I had to.
This is the only book I would use to learn Latin. With it I would also recommend Edith Hamilton's Mythology (which is so enticing I read ahead [accidently], finished the book, and bought my own copy). EH's Mythology also includes a fascinating bit about Norse mythology.
Latin Via Ovid earns it's keep time and again. You have to be careful, otherwise you start chatting away in Latin and people start thinking you're crazy (believe me, I know).
P.S. I really wish people could shut up about the "dead language." For one, a language can never be dead. For another, if people speak and/or know it, it's not dead. If you truly loved Latin, how could you insult it by calling it "dead?" If you loved a person, would you call them "dead?" I doubt it. Latin is quite alive; please, honor it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent study tool!
Comment: As they say in the English middle schools:
Latin is a language
A language as dead as can be
First it killed the Romans
And now it is killing me
However, it is not too difficult if you study diligently. A teacher is always of help, but if you put your mind to it you will slowly conquer Latin and become proficient at it. Just throw on some elbow grease and get to it!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Introduction to a Living "Dead" Language
Comment: I studied Latin in High School.
I took two semesters of Latin in College.
Then I got a real job, and my Latin was growing rusty. Oh I have Wheelock's, and the accompanying materials. Then I found "Latin Via Ovid."
Suddenly, I rediscovered the joy of studying this "dead" yet very "living" language by reading passages of the great Roman poets, in the original Never mind that. If interested in the Language of Scholarship, but don't know much about it Buy Confidently! Study Hard! Carpe Diem! Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
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