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| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5075 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 11 23 January 2011 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've recently purchased a cheap set of used Wheelock's Latin (including reader, workbook, 38 stories), and I'm toying
with the idea of beginning latin study once I get more comfortable with my L2, French. I'm not committed to learning latin at this point however, in part due to the usual objections to learning a dead language, but I'm also concerned that if I did learn the language, that I wouldn't be able to find latin books at reasonable prices to fill a shelf on my bookcase. Seeing as how I don't plan on becoming a classical scholar, latin must, at some point, be more pleasure than work, and reading off a screen just isn't as pleasurable as reading a book. So, for those latinists out there, tell me about your latin collections, not including textbooks and instructional material. Recommending sources would be greatly appreciated as well. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6127 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 2 of 11 23 January 2011 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love the Vulgate which is the 4th century AD Latin translation of the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek done mostly by Jerome.
I have seen some very beautiful ornate printed versions and I would love to own one some day. Here is a great online edition with parallel English Text: http://www.latinvulgate.com/ erat autem et superscriptio inscripta super illum litteris graecis et latinis et hebraicis hic est rex Iudaeorum And there was also a superscription written over him in letters of Greek and Latin and Hebrew THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Luke 23:38 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xander.XVII Diglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5059 days ago 189 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC1 Studies: French | Message 3 of 11 23 January 2011 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I study actively latin since 4 years, it's difficult to approach individually without
knowing anything of grammar.However it isn't surely impossible to learn it starting from zero. I print frequently enough from Latin Library a multi-lingual website which offers thousands of texts, it is not as own a book yet it can be helpful. Edited by xander.XVII on 23 January 2011 at 10:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5303 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 4 of 11 23 January 2011 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||
You may want to get a general view of Latin Literature, especially Classical Latin. The first article is not very good, but using the links you can start further explorations. Loeb Classical Library is the editor of fine bilingual texts, Latin and English, which make the sometimes not so easy classical authors much more accessible. There is a wealth of medieval and later texts if you are more interested in "modern" material, but while there do exist some modern translations of bestsellers like Harry Potter or "The Perfume" I don't think learning Latin just with the intention of being able to read these contemporary books is worth the effort, frankly speaking. Comprehensive online libraries are The Latin Library or The Perseus Project. The latter offers very useful tools like implemented clickable dictionary while the first one has the texts easily available and is very transparent. Once you have found an author you are interested in, some Amazon research or similar will give you many more editions and translations many of which will be more pleasing to the eye than all the above ones. :-) Edited by lingoleng on 23 January 2011 at 10:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6608 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 11 24 January 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Be sure to browse Bolchazy-Carducci's online catalog. Besides instructional material, they offer classical texts with commentary.
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5350 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 6 of 11 24 January 2011 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
I second this suggestion. The internet might be good for sending messages or consulting information, but for actual reading there is no substitute for a real book. Here's the catalogue of the Loeb Classical Library 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JasonE Groupie Canada Joined 5075 days ago 54 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 11 24 January 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks everyone for the source recommendations, but no one has really answered my main question yet. What is
your latin book collection like? I want to have a better idea of what the end stage relationship with the language is for most people. Does anyone actually have a collection of latin books which are read for pleasure? I know that most of the people here find studying pleasurable, but what I'm looking for are those who continue to read latin without the explicit goal of improving their latin. I hope that makes sense. Thanks again to those who posted links, I'll be sure to bookmark them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5413 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 8 of 11 27 January 2011 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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My latin books are mostly bilingual Italian editions. The main reason is that Italy is the only country I know of which edits classical (and some medieval) Latin texts in cheap pocket size books (8/15 euros).
Here, in France, except some great authors (Vergilius, Cicero...), it is a bit hard to find Latin books. The only extent collection is published by "Les Belles Lettres" and each volume costs between 30 and 80 euros. And they have the disastrous habit of dividing each work into a lot of bands (three volumes for the Aeneid...90 euros, 35 volumes for Livy's History !). However, some years ago they began to edit pocket size books (without apparatus) but the numbers of texts published is still low. That's why I settled on Italian editions. Pocket size, cheap, well edited (one band Aeneid, six bands for Livy's History...) , Oxford or Belles Lettres version of the texts (without apparatus), almost all classical authors published, low shipping rates (at least to France), etc. You may take a look at the BUR (Rizzoli) collection. Mondadori, UTET and Newton Compton are also pretty good. I usually use (better said used, as I don't buy a lot of latin books anymore) www.libreriauniversitaria.it, www.hoepli.it or www.bol.it (search "classici latini" or "testo latine a fronte"). If you are interested (and if I manage to do it), I could post some pictures of some books so that you can see waht they look like. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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