Ovid Study Group

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Hi Dean,

The Ovid reader is coming very soon. It’s a pretty good reader by Allen and Greenough. It’ll have selections from Metamorphoses, line notes and vocab.

Jeff

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[face=Verdana]Forum:

The one book to recommend around an Ovid study group for novices of Latin:

Title: Latin Via Ovid, A First Course, 2nd Edition, 1982
Authors: Norma Goldman and Jacob E. Nyenhuis


Analysis:

The treatise presents a smooth and sequential entry into abridged versions of the metamorphoses. Chapters are divided into sections of Dialogue, Reading, Vocabulary, Structure, Exercises, and Etymology.


Conclusion:

It (the book) represents a friendly gateway for novices of Classical Latin such as myself. Because of the treatise I have been able to ask acute and sensible questions to those on this site who are more experienced.

In addition, there is a supplementary workbook.[/face]

Caeruleus

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Hi,

If you’re currently running the Ovid reading group, please send me the selections from the Allen & Greenough edition you are using, and, if it is required of me, I will contribute translations.

Thanks.

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The Ovid reader has been photocopied and now scanned.. I’ll be converting it to PDF shortly.

Once it’s online, take a look at it and it’ll be up to the group leader to choose to use the textbook.

Dean and others, starting thinking about when you would like to begin the group. My suggestion is sometime in late May, it seems like a long way off, but it’ll give us time to market the group in the newsletter and for anyone in school, finals will be over (US).

When does the school year end in the UK?

Jeff

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Hi All,

I am still interested in trying the Ovid Study Group if we have enough participants, but I don’t think this is going to be too much of a problem.
I was thinking twenty at most.

I was just thinking…I had many Latin courses with Mrs. Parks as instructor. She said once that you don’t know hardly what to teach to such a diverse group of students as we had. We had a major in Philosophy, a Theater major, an English major, and I think there was a History major and Mathmatics major in the class. Also two or three Classics majors. Kind of hard to figure out what to teach and what authors to read in a group that diverse!

I am still looking forward to moderating the group!!!

Dean

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)
adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi
ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen!