Some Resources for Students of Latin

Reading

How to prepare a reading assignment: advice for intermediate-level students on reading Latin in its own word order.

The Art of Reading Latin: How to Teach It: W. G. Hale's classic pamphlet, also available in Perseus with the full suite of Perseus tools.

Vocabulary

1000 Core Latin Words -- the most frequent words in the Perseus Latin corpus. Because this list is automatically generated, there will be some false matches.

200 Essential Latin Words -- hand-generated list of words accounting for roughly 50% of Latin prose.

Vocabulary flashcards -- a method for organizing words

Kinship terms in Latin and related languages

Literature, History, and Culture

Citing ancient sources

Summary of the Aeneid in Latin prose

Summary of the Iliad in Latin prose

Summary of the Odyssey in Latin prose

Timeline for Greek and Roman comedy

Fabulae Faciles: Ritchie's well-known stories, in a single-page presentation without notes


These materials are all copyright © 2003 Anne Mahoney. They are free for non-commercial use by students and teachers of Latin.

HTML by AEM, last update 4 October 2005.

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