Disce! An Introductory Latin Course, Volume 1

by Kitchell, Kenneth; Sienkewicz, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780131585317
• ISBN10: 0131585312
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: Savvas Learning Company

Summary

Designed to bring students to the point where they can read Latin fluently, DISCE!combines the best of both the grammar approach and reading method. An original, unified story provides controlled introduction to vocabulary and grammar in context while also utilizing orderly and clear grammar explanations in every chapter. It thus combines the grammar approach and the reading-based approach. The guiding principle throughout is what is best for the student and for the particular concepts being studied at any given moment. Additionally, Disce! weaves culture throughout the text, and stresses the role of Classical culture in the modern world by the many links drawn between Latin and modern languages, and between Roman practices and modern culture. Disce! is also the first text to be supported by MyLatinLab, providing the most modern course management and online support to a Classical language. DISCE!is for use in introductory Latin programs and is suitable for both high school and college students.

Author Biography

Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. is professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts.  Prior to this he taught at Louisiana State University for 22 years and he taught high school in Chicago for two years. He also served, in 1989, as the Gertrude Smith Professor and co-director of the Summer Program of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.

 

He has won several teaching awards, including The Amoco Foundation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (1980), American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics (1983), LSU Student Government Association Faculty Award (1991), and the Robert L. (Doc) Amborski Distinguished Honors Professor Award (1993).  He was the recipient of a CAMWS Ovatio (1994), and was named a Hewlett Fellow for Teaching  (2000-2001) and a General Education Fellow (2009-2010) by University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Most recently he  was listed in the latest edition of Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World.

 

He is the author or co-author of seven books, 60 articles, and has presented over 120 scholarly talks.  He has been actively promoting the study of Classics for over 30 years, serving as for such groups as the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (President) and the American Philological Association (Vice-President for Education) and The American Classical League (President).  His other research interests center on animals and animal lore in antiquity and the Middle Ages and he enjoys writing fiction which, some day,  he may find the courage to send to a publisher.

 

 

Thomas J. Sienkewicz is Minnie Billings Capron Professor of Classics at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois. With Ken Kitchell he is the series editor of the LEGAMUS Transitional Readers, published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. He is the co-author Vergil: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004) and editor of the Encyclopedia of the Ancient World ( Salem Press, 2002) and the Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World (Salem Press Inc., 2007). In 2005 he was the recipient of the Hatch Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship at Monmouth College. He is also the recipient of the American Philological Association Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Classics, the Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Contributions to Foreign Language Learningm and an Ovatio from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. At Monmouth College he teaches a wide variety of courses on the ancient world as well as all levels of Latin and ancient Greek. He has designed several innovative courses, including “Understanding Spoken Latin” and “Star Wars and Classical Mythology.” With Ken Kitchell he is a founder of National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week. When not teaching or promoting Latin, he enjoys gardening.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Intrōductiō

Chapter 2 In Tabernā

Chapter 3 Negōtium Bonum

Chapter 4 Intrat Hermēs

Chapter 5 In Forum

Chapter 6 In Lūdō Chīrōnis

Chapter7 Post Lūdum

Chapter 8 Eāmus Domum

Chapter 9 Per Viās Rōmānās

Chapter 10 Quantī Id Constat?

Chapter 11 Domum

Chapter 12 In Domō Magnā

Chapter 13 Māter et Fīlia

Chapter 14 Dē Perseō

Chapter 15 Frāter et Soror

Chapter 16 In Cēnā

Chapter 17 Dē Amōre et Lūdīs

Chapter 18 Fugitīvus

Chapter 19 Vēnātiō

Chapter 20 Nōn Perseus sed Herculēs!

IPSISSIMA VERBA

 

Table of Contents

 

Chapter 1       Festina Lente

Perfectus Dux (Suetonius. Augustus. 25.4)
Inscriptiones Fori Romani (Temple of Antoninus Pius and Temple of Saturn)

 

Chapter 2       Tullius Salutem Dicit

Tullius Terentiae Suae (Cicero. Ad Familiares XIV, 8; XIV, 15)

 

Chapter 3       Tabernae

Roma Nuper Magna Taberna (Martial. Epigrammata.VII.61)

 

Chapter 4       Vinum

Vinum Incendit iras (Seneca. De ira 2.19)

Vino Pellite Curas (Horace. Carmina  I.7: 28-35)

Magnum Hoc Vitium Vino Est (Plautus. Pseudolus. Act V, 1, 1-9)

Vita Vinum Est (Petronius. Satyricon 34)

In Vino Veritas (Pliny, Naturalis Historia  14.28.141)
Vinum Omne Dulce (Pliny. Naturalis Historia 14.11.80)

Feminae et Vinum (Pliny. Naturalis Historia 14.13.89)

Vinum Familiae (Cato. De Agri Cultura 104)

Chapter 5       Roma Antiquissima

UrbsMarmorea (Suetonius, Augustus 28.3)

Ubi Nunc Fora Sunt (Ovid. Fasti VI.396; 399-402; 411-414)
Marcellus (L'année épigraphique [1928] #2)

 

Chapter 6       Ludus Romanus

Scelerate Magister (Martial. Epigrammata  IX.68)

 

Chapter 7 Sententiae

Aut Amat Aut odit (Publilius Syrus. Sententiae 1-9)

Para Bellum (Vegetius, Epitoma  Rei Militaris 3)

Familia Gessii (Tomb of P. Gessius Family)

 

Chapter 8       Tempus

Inreparabile Tempus (Vergil. Georgics III.284-290)

Carpe Diem (Horace. Carmina I.11)

Tempus Edax Rerum (Ovid. Metamorphoses XV.234-244)

o Tempora, o Mores! (Cicero. In Catilinam I,2)
Solarium Augusti (CILVI.701)

 

Chapter 9       Inscriptiones Pompeiis

Fur Es! (CIL IV. 807, 1454, 1864, 1883, 4764, 7038)

 

 

Chapter 10     Pecunia

e Lotio Est (Suetonius. Vespasianus 23)

In Corripiendis Pecuniis (Cicero. In Verrem I.2)

 

Chapter 11 Iulius Caesar Dicit

Iacta alea Est (Sueteonius. Iulius. 32)

Veni, Vidi, Vici (Sueteonius. Iulius 37)

De  Bello Gallico (Julius Caesar. De  Bello Gallico 1.1)

Insidiae (Julius Caesar. De  Bello Gallico 3.18)

Parvis Momentis Magni Casus (Julius Caesar. De Bello Civili 1.21)

 

Chapter 12     Domus

Domus Honestanda (Cicero. De Officiis 1.139)
Domus et Placens Uxor (Horace. Carmina. 2.14.1-4; 21-24)

Dulcis Domus (Apollinaris Sidonius. Carmina 23.436-441)

 

Chapter 13  Catullus

Par Deo (Catullus. Carmina 51)

Quot Basiationes (Catullus. Carmina 7)

 

Chapter 14     Magna Parva

Democritus (Cicero. Tusculanae Disputationes.  5.114)

Romulus Remusque (Livy. 1.4)

 

Chapter 15     Catilina
Quousque tandem, Catilina? (Cicero. In Catilinam 1.1)

 

Chapter 16     Suasoriae

Deliberat Cicero (Seneca the Elder. Suasoriae 6.3)

 

Chapter 17 De Lesbiae Passere

Deliciae Meae Puellae (Catullus. Carmina 2)

Mors Lesbiae Passeris (Catullus. Carmina 3)

 

Chapter 18 De Servis

Instrumenti Genus Vocale (Varro. De Re Rustica 1.17.1)

Servi Contubernales (Seneca. Epistulae Morales 47.1)

 

Chapter 19 De Gladiatoribus

Hermes Martia Saeculi Voluptas (Martial, Epigrammata V, 24)

Verso Pollice (Juvenal. Satura 3.34-37

Colisaeus (Bedae Opera Omnia Migne P.L. XCIV pg. 543)

FeminaeGladiatores I (Tacitus. Annales 15.32.3)

FeminaeGladiatores II (Suetonius. Domitianus. 4.1)

Feminae et Pumili Gladiatores III (Statius. Silvae 1.6. 51-56)

De Spectaculis (Martial. Liber de Spectaculis 1)

 

Chapter 20     Hercules

Hercules Cacusque (Ovid. Fasti, 1.547-558)