How does LTRL differ from other Latin textbooks?
• The long-range goal of LTRL is to teach students to read Latin, not to translate it. All the Drills, Drill Sentences, and, most important, the readings taken from a broad range of Latin authors, were written or chosen to illustrate not only new morphology and syntax but also to emphasize the substantial rewards of reading Latin in Latin word order. • With its WORKBOOK LTRL is designed to be comprehensive. No additional books need be purchased. For a fuller description of what is included in LTRL, see below. • LTRL seeks to introduce students to the Roman world through the reading of actual passages of Latin literature. The authors represented in the text range from Plautus and Ennius to Macrobius, but the major authors of the classical period are most represented: Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Sallust, Catullus, Vergil, and Ovid. Thus LTRL is an introductory grammar and reader in one. back to top • For what level of student is LTRL intended? LTRL has been used and is intended to be used by s
