Aesop's Fables in Latin: Fable 12, "Puer et Agricolae"

This book is available from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers:

http://bolchazy.com/prod.php?cat=latin&id=6950

This intermediate Latin reader allows students to review grammar and syntax and increase their knowledge of Latin prose style while they read eighty Aesops fables in Latin prose, taken from the seventeenth-century edition illustrated by Francis Barlow. These Latin prose fables are ideal for Latin language students: simple, short, witty, and to-the-point, with a memorable moral lesson that provides a jumping-off point for discussion. Forty original black-and-white Barlow illustrations and 129 pertinent Latin proverbs are featured, spurs for classroom discussion. Selected fables include many that have become proverbial, such as The Tortoise and The Hare and The Dog in the Manger, along with lesser known fables.

This is the perfect ancillary for intermediate students, to increase comprehension, confidence, and enthusiasm for reading Latin.

Laura Gibbs teaches online courses in Mythology and Folklore for the University of Oklahoma. She joined the OU faculty in 1999 after completing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught both Latin and Polish. She has translated Aesops Fables into English for the Oxford Worlds Classics series, and developed an ancillary online library of Aesops fables in English, Latin, and Greek at http://www.Aesopica.net. She is also author of Latin Via Proverbs: 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin and a follow-up volume, Vulgate Verses: 4000 Sayings from the Bible. You can find out more about Lauras teaching and web publications at http://www.MythFolklore.net.

Special Features * Introduction, covering Aesops fables in the ancient world, the Latin-language sources for the fables, and Aesops fables in early modern England * Latin Reading Guide, including study tips and strategies to increase student reading confidence—helps students read, not just translate * 80 Aesops fables in Latin prose, with - introductory comments with references to other versions of the fable - engaging grammar overview for review and to increase comprehension - opposite-page vocabulary notes for less familiar words - same-page grammar notes * 40 black-and-white illustrations by Francis Barlow * 129 thematically relevant Latin proverbs * 4 Appendices: - glossary of grammatical terms, with references to fables containing specific grammatical features - vocabulary frequency list - English vocabulary-building list based on the Latin vocabulary - annotated listing of online * Bibliography for further reading * Digital Materials: aesopus.ning.com/

This book and its companion online components are perfect for doing Latin-language warm-ups before class, assigning fables as fun homework, or to use after students have taken their AP exams as a break from Classical Latin authors.

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