Recommended: Vis-Ed Latin Vocabulary Cards. Springfield, IL.
Chapter 1: Pandora's Box
Chapter 2: Phaethon
Chapter 4: Homework for Monday, Oct. 11
Chapter 4: Io
Chapter 4: Images
- Laocoon and his sons
- Sack of Troy: Rape of Cassandra by Ajax & Aeneas carrying off Anchises, with Ascanius
- Trojan Horse
- You have been assigned one of three text-and-image paths composed by Prof. Mark Morford, Univ. of Virginia, on aspects of Vergil's Aeneid we have read this semester:
- The Fall of Troy: Gill, Rob, Jerry, Kat
- Dido and Aeneas: Stacey, Bob, Justin S.
- Aeneas in the Underworld: Justin C., Jacob, Ava, Joann
- Follow the paths, noting both the main story and the possible vocabulary you might use in creating a brief epic.
- Craft a portion of Vergil's epic story, using vocabulary we have learned (for additional vocabulary, use the English-Latin dictionary in the back of your book). Your epic should include the following:
- active and passive verbal forms
- indicative and subjunctive moods
- all four types of participles (pres. act., pf. pass., fut. act. and fut. pass.); the fut. pass. must be used in a passive periphrastic
- both the ablative and dative of agency
- possum + an infinitive
- substantial vocabulary from chapter 5
- Have one person post the story to the chatroom on behalf of the group, and then use the chatroom as a way to edit and correct your group's story.
- Your story must be completed by Sunday at 3pm.
- To see the passages (and Arnush's corrections to the first), click here.
- Tuesday's overhead notes on indirect statement are now available on-line.
- Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns
- Daily Life:
--Yogi Berra