Textbooks for Latin Subjects

Our teachers have carefully selected classical education textbooks which present their course materials in an organized manner, but which also reflect our primary mission to provide a rigorous and thorough preparation for the life of the mind in Christ. Please read the information supplied in their notes carefully. In some cases, you may be able to substitute editions, but not in others. In many cases, used versions of the textbook will be available through Amazon or ABE Books. If you have any questions about the appropriateness of a text for your student, or about the correct edition to buy, please contact the teacher.

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During the early part of the calendar year, the bookstore may list textbooks for courses from both the current academic year, and the upcoming summer and fall academic years. Not all textbooks will be listed until teachers approve course descriptions and select their books. Be sure that you order books for the correct enrollment year.

Textbooks for both Summer and Academic Year 2024 Courses

Courses in Latin

Latin Bible for Beginners (1813) • [2024] Rachel Lott

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Latin I (1802) • [2024] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Edition [Edition required: 7]* Wheelock Frederick M., LaFleur Richard A.
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised (Paperback) [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: Students must have a new, entirely unmarked copy of this workbook for their own personal use.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Vulgate Reading Group (1839) • [2024] Rachel Lott

No texts are listed for this course at this time.

Latin II (1808) • [2024] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Wheelock's Latin, Seventh Revised Ed. [Edition required: 7]* Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: (Earlier notes relating to the sixth edition are irrelevant now, since everyone should have started with the seventh edition in Latin I.)
Required:	*Workbook for Wheelock's Latin, 3rd Edition [Edition required: 3]* Paul T. Comeau, Richard A. LaFleur Notes: This is the version of the workbook selected to go with the edition with which the student began: most students should already have their own personal copy, with the chapters for this course unmarked.
Optional:	*A Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's Latin: Newly Revised for Wheelock's 6th Edition [Any edition]* Dale A. Grote Notes: Optional: Dr. Grote's extended descriptions and notes on Wheelock's Latin have been out there for many years now, and many students find his clear and thorough explanations a useful supplement to the basic textbook.
Optional:	*Vocabulary Cards and Grammatical Forms Summary for Wheelock's Latin [Any edition]* Richard A. LaFleur, Brad Tillery Notes: Optional: the real benefits of making vocabulary cards for yourself may be outweighed by the possibility that you simply won't do so. If that's likely, you may want to invest in these.

Latin III (1826) • [2024] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Aeneas to Augustus [Edition required: 2]* Mason Hammond, Anne Amory
Required:	*Ancient Rome: An Introductory History [Any edition]* Paul A. Zoch
Required:	*Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome [Any edition]* Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins
Required:	*Syntactical Mechanics [Edition required: 1]* Bruce A. McMenomy

Latin IV (Caesar and Vergil) (1827) • [2024] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico [Any edition]* Hans-Friedrich Mueller, G. Julius Caesar Notes: Prices on this have fluctuated severely over the last few years. It should be around $45. If it goes skyrocketing from there, let me know via email and we'll come up with some alternative solution. If Amazon is tweaking the prices unreasonably, check into the option directly from the publisher here: http://www.bolchazy.com/Caesar-Selections-from-his-Commentarii-De-Bello-Gallico-P3161.aspx
Required:	*Syntactical Mechanics [Edition required: 1]* Bruce A. McMenomy Notes: This book is also required for Latin III, so continuing students will already have a copy.
Required:	*The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War [Edition required: 1]* C. Julius Caesar, Kurt A. Raaflalaub (ed.), Robert B. Strassler (series editor) Notes: This is a magnificent book and a bargain for what it contains. If it's prohibitive, please let me know. I would permit another translation of Caesar's text, but this edition supplies a great deal of supporting information that will make the shape of Caesar's campaigns vastly more accessible. In either case I will be assigning readings from the accompanying web document (which is available freely to all) — which contains about 325 pages of material that wouldn't fit into the book itself.
Required:	**Vergil's Aeneid: Expanded Collection [Any edition]** P. Vergilius Maro, Barbara W. Boyd
Required:	*Why Vergil?: A Collection of Interpretations [Any edition]* Stephanie Quinn

Latin V (Latin Literature) (1828) • [2024] Bruce McMenomy

Required:	*Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar [Any edition]* J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge, Anne Mahoney Notes: The hardbound copy may be substituted; if money is an issue, one can dispense with this and rely on the online version, which is accessible through the Moodle website. Access to the text in some form, however, is essential for the various grammatical issues that arise.
Required:	*Horace: Selected Odes and Satire [Any edition]* Q. Horatius Flaccus, Ronnie Ancona
Required:	*The Catullan Revolution [Edition required: 1]* Kenneth Quinn Notes: The older edition will suffice if one can find it used.
Required:	*Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader [Any edition]* C. Valerius Catullus, Ronnie Ancona
Optional:	*Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary [Any edition]* Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, William Freund Notes: This is one of the larger (and more expensive) dictionaries available for serious Latinists. Unlike the larger and more recent Oxford Latin Dictionary, its range extends up to about 600 A. D., and so is more useful for those interested in Mediaeval Latin. Definitely not required, though some suitable dictionary is required. This is old enough that it is also available in many forms in addition to the cumbersome volume from Oxford: the Logeion site online offers its material for free and in very good format.
Optional:	*Oxford Latin Dictionary [Any edition]* P. G. W. Glare Notes: Emphatically not required, this is probably the most comprehensive Classical Latin dictionary avaiable in English today; it is also the most expensive. Its coverage does not extend much beyond A.D. 200, however, and so it is probably not as useful as Lewis and Short for those who want to pursue later Latin.

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