Worlds Texts
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complete listing
| 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.