Latin Study Groups

Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:56:43 -0700
From: Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>
To: LatinStudy <latinstudy at nxport dot com>
Subject: Latin Activities:  Week of June 29th

Peter LaDow will be coordinating a new Wheelock's beginners' group.
See below for 'Cursores' for more information.

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Coordinators should send updates to Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>.
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Group Listings:

Group: Caesar's Gallic Wars (CaesarBG)
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/caes.html and posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     no assignment (holiday): 4 July
     sentences 1.16.1-1.16.4: 11 July
     sentences 17.1-18.8: 18 July

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:
     Cicero In C. Verrem:
         no assignment (holiday): 4 July
         ll.241-255: 11 July
         ll. 256-2.71: 18 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.49.6-50.2 -- due July 6
     I.50.3-7 -- due July 13
     I.50.8-51.2 -- due July 20
     I.51.3-7 -- due July 27

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): 4 July
     sentences 4.3.9-4.3.15: 11 July
     sentences 4.3.16-4.3.21: 18 July
     sentences 4.3.22-4.3.26: 25 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): 4 July
     sentences 73.1-73.10: 11 July

Group: Tacitus' Annals (Tacitus)
Coordinator: John Isles <jisles at hughes dot net>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     IV.2.1-3.2 for July 1
     IV.3.3-4.3 for July 8
     IV.4.4-5.4 for July 15
     IV.5.5-6.3 for July 22
     IV.6.4-7.2 for July 29

Group: Juvenal Satires (Juvenal)
Coordinator: Martin Petersen <mpetersenm at googlemail dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/juvenal.html
Assignments:
      5 Jul      Satire 6   Lines 424-451
      12 Jul     Satire 6   Lines 452-473
      19 Jul     Satire 6   Lines 474-501
      26 Jul     Satire 6   Lines 502-529

Group: Apulieus' Metamorphoses - The Golden Ass (GoldenAss)
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/apuleius.html
Assignments:
     No assignment (holiday): 4 July

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 1: Romans 6:19-23, 7:1-13

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: 7.10.16b ("et cum te primum cognovi,..." through end)
     July 9: no assignment (Independence Day holiday)
     July 16: 7.11.17
     July 23: 7.12.18
     July 30: 7.13.19
     August 6: 7.14.20
     August 13: 7.15.21
     August 20: 7.16.22
     August 27: 7.17.23a (through "...mentem meam commutabilem.")

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 7 -- Fourth of July
     July 14 -- Ad Reginam
     July 28 -- Ad Altsigum Abbatem
     August 11 -- Ad Ansbaldum and Ad Hincmarum

Group: The Venerable Bede (Bede)
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/bede.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     No assignment (holiday): 4 July
     Liber I: sentences 1.10.1-1.10-5: 11 July
     Liber I: sentences 1.11.1-1.11.3: 18 July

Group: Pons - Bellum Catilinae (Pons)
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <pons.legendo at yahoo dot com>
Comment: http://www dot geocities dot com/amaranth621/Sallust.html
Assignments:
     See website for current and upcoming assignments

Group: Rufus - Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (Rufus)
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <hariscruff at gmail dot com>
Comment: http ://www dot geocities dot com/amaranth621/Latin.html
Assignments:
     See website for current and upcoming assignments

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:
     Cicero Evaluates Two Famous Roman Orators: 11 July
     Hannibal and the Romans Fight to a Draw: 25 July (Finis)

Group: Wheelock LALI (Lupi)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., ISBN 0060956410
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Comment: LALI is Loci Antiqui et Loci Immutati.  These are set of Latin
Comment: passages that range from lightly edited (LA) to totally unaltered (LI).
Assignments:
     No assignment (holiday): 4 July
     LI 6, lines 52-75: 11 July
     LI 6, lines 76-105: 18 July
     LI 7: 25 July

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:
     4 July: no assignment (holiday)
     11 July:  Ch. 30, PR, SA (29 sentences)
     18 July:  Ch. 30, TR 1-9, "Evidence and Confession"
                       TR 10, "A Covered-Dish Dinner!"
                       TR 11, "A Legacy Hunter's Wish"
                       TR 12, "Note on a Copy of Catullus' Carmina"
                       GM 1-13,  "Pliny Writes to His Friends"
     25 July:  Ch. 31, PR, SA (28 sentences)
     1 Aug:  Ch. 31, TR 1, "Give Me a Thousand Kisses"
                     TR 2, "Ringo"
                     TR 3-5, "Facetiae"
                     GM 1-14,  "Lucretia, Paragon of Virtue"
     8 Aug:  Ch. 32, PR, SA (33 sentences)
     15 Aug:  Ch. 32, TR 1-8, "The Character of Cimon"
                      TR 9, "A Vacation...From You!"
                      TR 10, "Please...Don't!
                      GM 1-9,  "Vergil Praises the Rustic Life"
     22 Aug:  Ch. 33, PR, SA (24 sentences)
     29 Aug:  Ch. 33, TR 1, "B.Y.O.B."
                      TR 2, "The Rich Get Richer"
                      TR 3, "Aristotle, Tutor of Alexander the Great"
                      TR 4-5, "Your Loss, My Gain!"
                      (There should be a period, not a comma, after "recEpisti.")
                      GM 1-10,  "The Helvetians Parley With Caesar
     5 September: no assignment (Labor Day)

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Ignis)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: Howard Gilbert <howardgilbert at btinternet dot com>
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two weeks.
Comment: http://www.quasillum.com/study/ignis.php
Assignments:
     July 4:  No assignment
     July 11: Ch. 20, PR, SA (28 sentences)
     July 18: Ch. 20, TR 1-11, "Cicero Urges Catiline's Departure from Rome"
                      GM 1-12, "The Labors of Hercules"
     July 25: Ch. 21, PR, SA (28 sentences)
     Aug 1:  Ch. 21, TR 1-6, "Vergil's Messianic Eclogue"
                     GM 1-10, The Golden Age Returns"
     Aug 8:  Ch. 22, PR, SA (32 sentences)
     Aug 15: Ch. 22, TR 1, "A Visit from the Young Interns"
                     TR 2-4, "On Ambition and Literature"
                     GM 1-11,  "Cicero Reports His Victory Over Catiline"
     Aug 22: Ch. 23, PR, SA (28 sentences)
     Aug 29: Ch. 23, TR 1-12, "Laocoon Speaks Out Against the Trojan Horse"
                     GM 1-9, "Watching the Orator at Work"
     Sep 5:  No assignment
     Sep 12: Ch. 24, PR, SA (25 sentences)
     Sep 19: Ch. 24, TR 1, "De Cupiditate [Horace]"
                     TR 2-3, "De Cupiditate [Cicero]"
                     TR 4-5, "De Cupiditate [Phaedrus]"
                     TR 6-10, "The Satirist's Modus Operandi"
                     GM 1-11,  "Caesar's Camp is Attacked by Belgians"
      Sep 26: Ch. 25, PR, SA (32 sentences)
      Oct 3:  Ch. 25, TR 1-12, "The Death of Laocoon...And Troy"
                      GM 1-8, "The Character of Catiline's Followers"

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Atrium Latin Claudius)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: David Meadows <atriumlatin at gmail dot com>
Comment: http://www.atrium-media.com/latin/atriumlatin.htm
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock once a week.
Assignments: (see website for more details)
     July 4............. none (Canada Day/Independence Day)
     July 11............ Chapter 37
     July 18............ Chapter 38
     July 25............ Chapter 39
     August 1........... Chapter 40

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Lectores Latini)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: Mike Dwyer <dwyermz at gmail dot com>
Comment: Two chapters of Wheelock every week.
Comment: Extremely fast pace; prior exposure to Latin recommended.
Comment: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lectoreslatini/
Assignments:
     3-Jul.....ch 33
     17-Jul....ch 34
     31-Jul....ch 35
     14-Aug....ch 36
     28-Aug....ch 37
     11-Sep....ch 38
     25-Sep....ch 39
     9-Oct.....ch 40

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Atrium Latin Artemis)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: David Meadows <atriumlatin at gmail dot com>
Comment: announcement at http://www.quasillum.com/latin/artemis.html
Comment: http://www.atrium-media.com/latin/atriumlatin.htm
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two weeks.
Assignments:
     July 4.........Sat.....12.2
     July 11........Sat.....13.1
     July 18........Sat.....13.2

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Cursores)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed. rev, ISBN 0060783710
Coordinator: Peter LaDow <pladow at gmail dot com>
Comment: http://latin.wazzucougars.org:8080/category/cursores/
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock once a week
Comment: send assignments to latin at wazzucougars dot org
Assignments:
     7/18/2009   Chapter 1
     7/25/2009   Chapter 2
     8/1/2009    Chapter 3
     8/8/2009    Chapter 4
     8/15/2009   Chapter 5

Group: Latin Via Ovid (Ovid)
Text: Latin Via Ovid, ISBN 978-0814317327
Coordinator: Teresa Montgomery <teresamichele at gmail dot com>
Comment: An introductory group.
Assignments:
     July 11th, midnight GMT - Chapter 3
     July 25th, midnight GMT - Chapter 4

Group: Collins' Ecclesiastical Latin Beginners (Collins2009)
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/collins2009.htm
Assignments:
     June 30, Unit 14, Exercise I, Exercise II
     July 7, Independence Day holiday. No assignment due.
     July 14, Unit 15, Exercise I, Exercise II
     July 21, Unit 16, Exercise I, Exercise II
     July 28, Unit 17, Exercise I, Exercise II
     August 4, Unit 18, Exercise I, Exercise II
     August 11, Unit 19, Exercise I, Exercise II
     August 18, Unit 20, Exercise I, Exercise II
     August 25, Unit 21, Exercise I, Exercise II
     September 1, Unit 21, Reading 1, Reading 2
     September 8, Labor Day holiday. No assignment due.

Group: Noctua - Lingua Latina (Noctua)
Text: Lingua Latina Familia Romana
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianarcus at yahoo dot com>
Comment:  Explanations & fuller schedule on website
Comment:  http://www dot geocities dot com/dianarcus/noctua.html
Assignments:
     See website for current and upcoming assignments

Group: Sagitta - Lingua Latina (SagFR)
Text: Lingua Latina Familia Romana
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianarcus at yahoo dot com>
Comment:  Explanations & fuller schedule on website
Comment:  http://www dot geocities dot com/dianarcus/sagitta.html
Assignments:
     See website for current and upcoming assignments

Group: Sagitta - Lingua Latina (SagEL)
Text: Exercitia Latina
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianarcus at yahoo dot com>
Comment:  http://www dot geocities dot com/dianarcus/sagitta.html
Assignments:
     See website for current and upcoming assignments

Group: Beginning Latin Composition (Scriptores)
Text: Bradley, W.W. "Lessons in Latin Prose" (London 1872)
Coordinator: Rob McConeghy <robmcc1 at cox dot net>
Comment: discussion group on Yahoo where you can download the text
Comment: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scriptores
Assignments:
     Lesson 3 - June 30
     Lesson 4 - July 7
     Lesson 5 - July 14
     Lesson 6 - July 21

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