auricula meretricula mary whitlock translation

Some of the early facing vocabulary lists look a little heavier because of this attempt to suit other texts (and in what beginning text will the student not have learned meus, -a, -um by the time one reads the first scene?), but students should still be able to read these scenes with the facility and speed which makes the jokes funny. The new edition in fact trims a little of the vocabulary with just this goal in mind. While conceived for use after the student has mastered a given number of chapters in Wheelock (the first scene after chapter 8, the last after chapter 24), the scenes should work well with any beginning text. The ten scenes, using a progressively richer vocabulary and syntax, are accompanied by a facing vocabulary. The format is suitable for use either as a sight- reading exercise or as a prepared text. To leaven its steady diet of paradigms and ennobling maxims, the authors turned to Roman comedy and elegy for inspiration and created this playlet in the style of Roman comedy. Wheelock's book, originally designed as a review or self-teaching text, is very efficient-and resolutely dull, as generations of glassy-eyed freshmen will attest. Its origins lie in the two authors' struggle to find something to enliven their teaching of Wheelock's Latin Grammar (the current title of this standard text) at Berkeley in the early 1980's. By Mary Whitlock Blundell and Ann Cumming revised editionĪuricula Meretricula is a brief but snappy comedy (it plays easily in under a half hour) written in Latin and designed to accompany the teaching of a first semester Latin course.

Auricula meretricula mary whitlock translation