• Grammatical exercises
• Vocabulary lists
• Audio files
• Latin resources

Additional resources

• Pandora's box
• Chapter 4 notes
• Prepositions
• Map of late Republican Rome
• Verbs, chapters 1-6 (.pdf) (.doc)
• Chapter 6 practice sentences
• "A Dead Language That's Very Much Alive" (NY Times 10/7/08)
• "Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!" (NY Times 10/12/08)
• Chapters 1-6 principal parts
• Chapter 7 3rd declension nouns
• Chapter 13: pronouns and possessive adjectives; interrogative pronouns

Dictionaries: Dictionaries are wonderful tools - they provide quick and ready access to the meaning of words, and often reveal much more about word roots and the relationships between words. Use these two on-line dictionaries - the one at Perseus, which is comprehensive, and the one at Hong Kong, which is more limited but easier to use - to supplement the word lists in Shelmerdine's text.

• Latin-English Dictionary (from Perseus at Tufts University)
• English-Latin Dictionary (from Perseus at Tufts University)
• Latin-English Dictionary (from the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Cultural materials: The language you are learning was a living, spoken language, used as the primary means of communication by millions of people for over 2000 years (from Rome's founding in 753 BCE until the fall of Rome in 476 CE, and from the fall of Rome until the Renaissance in the 15th century). As you develop your Latin skills we will explore various aspects of Roman society - geographical & environmental, as well as both public and private - so that you learn the language within its cultural context. Approximately every three weeks we will cover one of four broad topics: historical sketches, public life, private life, and entertainment.