Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>
To: latinstudy at nxport dot com
Subject: Latin Activities:  Week of June 30th
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:28:20 -0400 (EDT)

==========================================================================
The LatinStudy list is an open list dedicated to the study of the Latin
language.  The URL http://www.quasillum.com/study/latinstudy.php
describes the list in more detail.

This activities update is posted weekly, usually on Monday evenings.
A copy is at http://www.quasillum.com/latin/latin-activities.php
Coordinators should send updates to Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>.
==========================================================================
Group Listings:

Group: Wheelock's Latin Reader (WLR)
Comment: Selections from Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, & Medieval Latin
Text: "Wheelock's Latin Reader, 2nd ed" by Wheelock, ISBN 0060935065
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
    no assignment (holiday):  5 July
    Pliny, ll. 1-20: 12 July
    Pliny: ll. 21-44: 19 July
    Pliny: ll. 45-66: 26 July

Group: Cicero's Letters (LettersCicero)
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Text: Cicero, Select Letters, ed. by Shackleton-Bailey, Cambridge U. Press
Comment:
Assignments:
    no assignment (holiday): 5 July
    Letter 54, all: 12 July
    Letter 55, sections 1&2L 19 July

Group: Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Livy)
Coordinator: John Isles <jisles at hughes dot net>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Text: http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/125/author_id/54/  (for Libri I & II)
Assignments:
    I.25.6-11 -- due June 30
    (no assignment for July 7)
    I.25.12-26.2 -- due July 14
    I.26.3-7 -- due July 21
    I.26.8-11 -- due July 28

Group: Curtius Rufus' Life of Alexander (Curtius)
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/curtius.html
Comment: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Curtius/home.html
Assignments:
    no assignment (holiday) 5 July
    3.5.10-3.5.18: 12 July
    3.5.19-3.5.24: 19 July

Group: Petronius' Satyricon (Satyr)
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/petronius1.html
Assignments:
    no assignment (holiday): 5 July
    sentences 44.16-44.26: 12 July
    sentences 44.27-35: 19 July

Group: Tacitus' Annals (Tacitus)
Coordinator: John Isles <jisles at hughes dot net>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
    (No assignment for July 2)
    III.22.7-23.5 for July 9
    III.24.1-6 for July 16
    III.24.7-26.2 for July 23
    III.26.3-27.2 for July 30

Group: Juvenal Satires (Juvenal)
Coordinator: Martin Petersen <mpetersenm at googlemail dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/juvenal.html
Assignments:
    Sunday, July 06  Satire 1, Lines 147-171  

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Text: posted, see also http://quasillum.com/latin/vulgate.html
Coordinator: Gary Bisaga <gbisaga at yahoo dot com>
Comment: http://www.clients2you.com/wheelock/vulgate.html
Assignments:
    July 9, Acts 20:17-38
    July 23, Acts 21:1-16
    August 6, Acts 21:17-40
    August 20, Acts 22:1-21
    September 3, Acts 22:22-30, 23:1-11
    September 17, Acts 23:12-35

Group: Augustine / Confessions (Augustine)
Text: posted, see also: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/august.html
Coordinator: Kathy Smith <ksmith828 at pobox dot com>
Assignments:
    July 2: no assignment (Independence Day holiday)
    July 9: 6.6.10
    July 16: 6.7.11
    July 23: 6.7.12a (through "...et amabit te.'")
    July 30: 6.7.12b ("at ego illum non corripueram..." through end)
    August 6: 6.8.13a (through "...aperuit oculos.")
    August 13: 6.8.13b ("et percussus est..." through end)
    August 20: 6.9.14
    August 27: 6.9.15
    September 3: no assignment (Labor Day holiday)

Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Text: A Primer of Medieval Latin by Charles Beeson, ISBN 0813206359
Coordinator: Meredith Dixon <dixonm at pobox dot com>
Assignments:
    July 8 -- Fourth of July
    July 15 -- Charlemagne, pp. 155-156, to "... homines una lavarentur."
    July 29 -- Charlemagne, pp. 156-157, from "In cibo et potu...," 
        to "... iniungendum erat, expediebat.
    Aug. 12 -- Charlemagne, pp. 157-158, from "Erat eloquentia...," 
        to "... ac sero incohatus."
    Aug. 26 -- Charlemagne, pp. 158-159, from "religio christianam...," to end
    Sept. 9 -- Labor Day

Group: Life of Saint Columba (SaintC)
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/columba.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
    no assignment (the Fourth): 5 July
    sentences 7.1-7.4: 12 July
    sentences 8.1-8.5: 19 July

Group: Letters of Abelard (Abelard)
Text: http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/resources/abelard/Epistolae.txt
Coordinator Aidan O'Donnell <aidan.odonnell at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    <Check list or contact Aidan for current assignment>

Group: Anselm's Proslogion (Anselm)
Text: posted, see also http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/anselmproslogion.html
Coordinator: Raphaela <evaraphaela at gmail dot com>
Comment: http://evaraphaela.googlepages.com/anselm
Assignments:
    06 Jul: Ch. 22, Ch. 23 to "...aliud quam quod tu es."
    13 Jul: Ch. 23 "Hoc ipsum est amor unus..." to Ch. 24 end
    20 Jul: Ch. 25 to "...sapientia ostendet eis seipsam."
    27 Jul: Ch. 25 "Si amicitia, diligent..." to "...quam pro teipso."
    03 Aug: Ch. 25 "Si vero duo..." to Ch. 26 "...intrabunt in gaudium."
    10 Aug: Ch. 26 "Dic, Domine..." to end.

Group: Pons - Bellum Catilinae (Pons)
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <pons.legendo at yahoo dot com>
Comment: http://www.geocities.com/amaranth621/Sallust.html
Assignments:
   July 7: No Assignment (U.S. holiday)
   July 14: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XIV.4-7
   July 21: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XV.1-4
   July 28: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XV.5-XVI.3
   August 4: Sallust, Bellum Catilinae XVI.4 (to end)

Group: Rufus - Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (Rufus)
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <hariscruff at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
    June 30: Hercules Escapes Sacrifice (10 sent.)
    July 7: No Assignment
    July 14: Cruel Deed (7 sent.)
    July 21: Defeat of Minyae (7 sent.)
    July 28: Madness & Murder (5 sent.)
    Aug 4: Hercules Consults Oracle (7 sent.)
    Aug 11: Orcale's Reply ( 5 sent.)
    Aug 18: 1st Labor (8 sent.)
    Aug. 25: 2nd Labor (10 sent.)

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Aqua)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>
Comment: http://www.quasillum.com/study/aqua.php
Comment: Send completed assignments to aqua at quasillum dot com
Assignments:
    Jul  5:  US Independence Day weekend -- no assignment.
    Jul 12:  Ch. 36, PR, SA (32 sentences)
    Jul 19:  Ch. 36, TR 1, "The Quality of Martial's Book"
                     TR 2, "I Don't Cook for Cooks!"
                     TR 3, "I Love Her....I Love Her Not"
                     TR 4, "Oh, I'd Love to Read You My Poems -- Not!"
                     TR 5-6, "Who Is Truly Free?"
                     TR 7-13, "Testimony Against the Conspirators"
                     GM 1-8,  "A Crisis in Roman Education"

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Purple)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Meredith Dixon <dixonm at pobox dot com>
Comment: http://www.ravendays.org/latin/wh2007.html
Assignments:
    July 1 -- Fourth of July
    July 8 Ch. 26 SA, TR
    July 15 Ch. 27 PR
    July 22 Ch. 27 SA, TR
    July 29 Ch. 28 PR
    August 5 Ch. 28 SA, TR
    August 12 Ch. 29 PR
    August 19 Ch. 29 SA, TR
    August 26 Ch. 30 PR

Group: Groton & May (Aquilae)
Text: 38 Latin Stories, by Anne Groton & James May, ISBN 0865162891
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Comment: Short weekly readings designed to accompany Wheelock's Latin
Comment: One story every two weeks. Anyone may participate.
Assignments:
    How the Aegean Got Its Name: 12 July
    The Wrath of Achilles: 26 July

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Atrium Latin Romulus)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: David Meadows <atriumlatin at gmail dot com>
Comment: http://www.atrium-media.com/atriumlatin/romulus.html
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every week.
Assignments: (see website for more details)
    Ch 36, PR, SA, July 5
    Ch 37, PR, SA, July 12
    Ch 38, PR, SA, July 19
    Ch 39, PR, SA, July 26
    Ch 40, PR, SA, August 2

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Atrium Latin Remus)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: David Meadows <atriumlatin at gmail dot com>
Comment: http://www.atrium-media.com/atriumlatin/remus.html
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two weeks.
Assignments: (see website for more details)
    Ch. 17, SA + passages, July 5
    Ch. 18, PR, July 12
    Ch. 18, SA + passages, July 19
    Ch. 19, PR, July 26
    Ch. 19, SA + passages, August 2

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Equites)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two weeks.
Comment: http://www.quasillum.com/study/equites.php
Assignments:
    July 5: no assignment (holiday)
    July 12:  Ch.  7, TR 1-3, "The Rape of Lucretia"
                      TR 4-6, "Catullus Dedicates His Poetry Book"
                      GM 1-11,  "Cleobis and Biton"
                              Note that line 7 should start with "Nunc".
    July 19:  Ch.  8, PR, SA (28 sentences)
    July 26:  Ch.  8, TR 1-3, "Cicero on the Ethics of Waging War
                      GM 1-14, "Laocoon and the Trojan Horse"
    August 2:  Ch.  9, PR, SA (23 sentences)
    August 9:  Ch.  9, TR 1, "When I Have...Enough" [Martial]
                       TR 2-6, "When I Have...Enough" [Seneca]
                       GM 1-16,  "Nisus and Euryalus"
    August 16 :  Ch. 10, PR, SA (29 sentences)
    August 23:  Ch. 10, TR 1-4, "The Incomparable Value of Friendship"
                        GM 1-14, "Aurora and Tithonus"
    August 30: no assignment (Labor Day)
    Sept. 6:  Ch. 11, PR, SA (29 sentences)
    Sept. 13:  Ch. 11, TR 1-14, "Cicero Denounces Catiline in the Senate"
                       GM 1-22, "Ulysses and the Cyclops"

Group: Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin Beginners (Collins2007)
Text: A Primer of Ecclesiastic Latin by John F. Collins, ISBN 0813206677
Coordinator: Joe Riegsecker <joepye at pobox dot com>
Comment: http://mysite.verizon.net/joepye1/collins2007.htm
Assignments:
    July 2, Unit 35, The Conversion of Saul (II), 8 Sentences;
                     The Lord's Prayer, 3 sentences.  (finis)

Group: Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin Beginners (Collins2008)
Text: A Primer of Ecclesiastic Latin by John F. Collins, ISBN 0813206677
Coordinator: Joe Riegsecker <joepye at pobox dot com>
Comment: http://collins2008.joepye.net/
Assignments:
    July 2, Unit 16, Ex. I, 25 sentences; Ex. II, 5 sentences
    July 9, Independence Day holiday. No assignment due.
    July 16, Unit 17, Ex. I, 22 sentences; Ex. II, 4 Sentences.
    July 23, Unit 18, Ex. I, 26 sentences; Ex. II, 6 Sentences.
    July 30, Unit 19, Ex. I, 37 sentences; Ex. II, 6 Sentences.
    August 6, Unit 20, Ex. I, 31 sentences; Ex. II, 5 Sentences.
    August 13, Unit 21, Ex. I, 33 sentences;Ex. II, 5 Sentences.
    August 20, Unit 21, Reading 1, The Gloria, 6 sentences;
                        Reading 2, Jesus cures a leper, 2 sentences.
    August 27, Unit 22, Ex. I, 31 sentences; Ex. II, 4 Sentences.
    September 3, Labor Day holiday. No assignment due.
    September 10, Unit 22, Reading 1, The Confiteor (old style)
                           Reading 2, Excerpt from the Gospel of John
    September 17, Unit 23, Ex. I, 35 sentences;  Ex. II, 4 Sentences.
    September 24, Unit 23, Reading 1, The Nicene Creed
                           Reading 2, Excerpt from the Gospel of John

--
To unsubscribe send a blank email to latinstudy-unsubscribe at nxport dot com