Classical Latin: An Introductory Course

by J.C. McKeown

Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach. In addition to grammar, paradigms, and readings, each chapter includes a variety of extraordinarily well-crafted exercises that reinforce the grammar and morphology while encouraging the joy of linguistic and cultural discovery.

Genres: Textbooks, Language, Classics, Nonfiction

442 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

About the author

J. C. McKeown is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Ovid's Amores.

Reviews

[Anya]

I read it from beginning to end, I get to add it to my reading goal.

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this textbook basically bumped off the Oxford Latin Course of the 80s and 90s, at least at Oxford....

Amazone

Not the greatest
6/10

While Classical Latin eventually teaches all the basic grammar concepts, it does so in a rather inefficient order.

It also contains a large amount of animal vocabulary (you can judge if that is good or bad, I thought it was strange), and contains innumerable drill exercises filled with pigs.

In later chapters, drill sentences sometimes do not fit with the chapter material.

Retro144

...........

I guess the University of California sticks to the 1970s
and doesn't do silly things with piggies