The Complete Latin Course

The Complete Latin Course is a comprehensive introduction to Latin for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. This modern, user-friendly text offers a series of fascinating glimpses into the world of ancient Rome, and sets you up to read Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, Tacitus and many other authors in the original Latin. The story of Rome is told by the ancient authors themselves. Authentic texts help to guide the student through the mechanics of Latin, whilst giving insights into the history of Rome, her culture and society, her gods, her games, her power struggles.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Latin alphabet; 1 Myth, legend and history; Nouns and verbs; Nouns: subjects and objects; Verbs; The nominative case; The accusative case; Readings; 2 The Republic; The genitive case; The dative case; The ablative case; Prepositions; The vocative case; est and sunt; Readings; 3 Carthage; Singular and plural: nominative and accusative; Genitive, dative and ablative plural; Gender; Neuter nouns; Summary: puella, servus and vīnum; Readings; 4 Greece; Questions; Adjectives: bonus, bona, bonum.

Agreement of an adjective and noun2nd declension nouns ending -er; Adjectives as nouns; Readings; 5 New factions and old families; Genitive and dative expressing ownership; Past participles; Past participles with est or sunt; Translating past participles; sum, esse; Readings; 6 The Republic under strain; Verbs; The present tense; The infinitive; The perfect tense; Perfect stems; Principal parts; Principal parts: 1st conjugation; Missing words or words 'understood'; More adjectives acting as nouns; Readings; 7 Friends and enemies; Verbs: 2nd conjugation; 3rd declension nouns; Him, her and them.
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