Keep the excitement of learning going. . . . Unit 3 and Unit 4 of the Third Edition of the Cambridge Latin Course continue the stimulating, historically accurate story line of Units 1 and 2. They are wholly compatible with the new Fourth Edition Units 1 and 2 and
It was an ongoing process, but I finally read through the third edition of the third book of the Cambridge series. I like the third book's stories the best out of all the Cambridge collection still. It's just not as glossy and beautiful as the fourth edition.
The Cambridge Latin series is in dire need of an update. The representation of women in the ancient world is colored by 50s sexism. There has been enough scholarship around the roles of women in Rome to disprove most of what Phinney has written about them. Every woman in cambridge Latin is either a beautiful girl to be lusted after or a naggy, crone that husbands loathe. Women in Pompeii owned property and ran businesses--where are these women in Phinney's stories?!