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Worlds Texts
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Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis 7. 803-817: Camilla Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 1.23: Chloe, submitted by Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis 4.630-662: Dido  
Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I. 11.5-9: Tarpeia, submitted by
Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caelio 33-34: Clodia Metelli, submitted by Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina 27: Postumia, submitted by
Maria Marsilio, St. Joseph's University
Valerius Maximus, Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilia 8.3.2: Afrania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales XI. 12: Messalina Valerius Maximus, Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilia 8.3.1: Amesia
   

Instruction Materials
A full list may be found at Activities and Syllabi & Lessons

Donald Connor, Trinity School
    "The Tale of Atalanta and Hippomenes: Reading Ovid's Metamorphoses X. 560-707." The Latin text with a running full-entry vocabulary below and a facing commentary, elegantly laid out with illustrations in PDF format; worksheets are included.

Donald Connor, Trinity School
    "The Tale of Niobe: Reading Ovid's Metamorphoses VI. 146-312." The Latin text with a running full-entry vocabulary below and a facing commentary and illustrations, in printer-friendly PDF format; worksheets are included.

Donald Connor, Trinity School (New York)
    "The Tale of the Flood, Pyrrha & Deucalion: Reading Ovid's Metamorphoses I. 253-415." The Latin text with a running full-entry vocabulary below and a facing commentary and illustrations, in printer-friendly PDF format; worksheets are included.

Donald Connor, Trinity School (New York)
    "The Four Ages: Reading Ovid's Metamorphoses I. 89-150." The Latin text with a running full-entry vocabulary below and a facing commentary and illustrations, in printer-friendly PDF format; worksheets are included.

Edmund DeHoratius, Wayland High School
    "Petronius' Matron of Ephesus." This lesson was created as a review for the opening of the Latin 3 year. One PDF file (36 pages) contains Latin text, both continuous and chunked in shorter passages linked to vocabulary, notes and discussion questions, an introduction to author and work, an Appendix of vocabulary and forms for the demonstrative and personal pronouns and adjectives; a second is a creative "Quiz on Text and Image."

Edmund DeHoratius, Wayland High School
    "The Story of Lucretia in Text and Image." This activity is actually a study unit in three parts: an exercise for close reading of the myth/story, a presentation of major Latin and English primary sources for reading or review, and an art project with fully developed instructions and grading criteria.

Anne Leen, Furman University
    "A Lesson Plan for Livy AUC 2. 40: Veturia" A teaching guide in five parts for the text in The Worlds of Roman Women (State): background, additional vocabulary and translation aids, 30 comprehension questions for class discussion, an exercise for structural analysis, and a quiz.

Anne Leen, Furman University
    "Group Activity for Propertius, Elegies 4. 11." This group project is the culmination of a three-day unit on the Propertius passage in The Worlds of Roman Women that focuses the class on reading Latin for comprehension of content and culture.



Ann R. Raia and Judith Lynn Sebesta
July 2008