Latin for the New Millennium Level 2 Student Workbook Second Edition

Milena Minkova · Terence Tunberg

febr. del 2017 · Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Sobre aquest llibre

The Second Edition workbook includes the addition of a new English derivative exercise for each chapter as well as an unadapted Latin reading from the eleventh-century writer Hildegard von Bingen and an adapted Latin reading from the seventeenth-century polymath Anna Maria van Schurman. A contextual essay and black-and-white image with caption accompanies each reading.

Student Workbooks supplement the Latin for the New Millennium textbooks with additional exercises and passages designed to reinforce the material presented in each chapter.

Special Features

• Content questions test students’ comprehension of each chapter’s Latin reading, background material, and grammar/syntax presentations.

• Exercises reinforce the grammar and syntax lessons presented in the Language Facts of the student text.

• Translation exercises from Latin to English and from English to Latin improve students’ abilities to read and write Latin.

• Student Workbooks expose students to adapted Latin passages not only from authors introduced in the primary text but also from other authors, for example, Sulpicia and Kepler, not presented in the textbook.

• Black-and-white illustrations provide visual context for the Latin readings.

Sobre l'autor

Milena Minkova is professor of classics and director of graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. She received a PhD in classics from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and a PhD in Christian and classical studies from the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome. Minkova has published books on Medieval Latin, Latin reference, and Latin composition. She has studied, taught and done research in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Vatican City, and the USA. Minkova is the coauthor with Terence Tunberg of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 1 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2008), Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009), and Reading Livy's Rome: Selections from Books I-VI of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005); she is also the author of Introduction to Latin Prose Composition (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2001, 2009), Latin for the New Millennium: College Exercise Book, Levels 1 and 2 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012), The Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions from Bulgaria (Peter Lang, 2000), and The Protean Ratio (Peter Lang, 2001).

Terence Owen Tunberg is a professor in the Department of Classical Languages and teaches in the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. Tunberg received a BA and MA in classics from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Toronto. He also studied at the University of London's MA Programme in Medieval Studies and Ancient History. He has published widely on medieval and neo-Latin and is founder of the electronic Latin journal Retiarius. Tunberg is the coauthor with Milena Minkova of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 1 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2008), Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2009), and Reading Livy's Rome: Selections from Books I-VI of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005); Tunberg is the cotranslator with Jennifer Morrish Tunberg of The Giving Tree in Latin: Arbor Alma (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002), Quomodo Invidiosulus nomine Grinchus Christi natalem Abrogaverit: How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1998), and Cattus Petasatus: The Cat in the Hat in Latin (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000).