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This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the reigns of the first five Roman emperors. Aimed at students moving on to genuine, unsimplified Latin prose after completing an introductory Latin course, it includes notes on grammar and translation, a full vocabulary, and historical and literary comment.

Presents a selection of stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the most famous and influential collection of Greek and Roman myths in the world. It includes well-known stories like those of Daedalus and Icarus, Pygmalion, Narcissus and King Midas. The book is designed for those who have completed an introductory course in Latin and aims to help such users to enjoy the story-telling, character-drawing and language of one of the world's most delightful and influential poets. The text is accompanied by full vocabulary and grammar notes, with assistance based on two widely used beginners' courses, Reading Latin and Wheelock's Latin. Essays at the end of each passage point up important detail and show how the logic of each story unfolds, while study sections offer questions for discussion and ways of thinking further about the passage. No other intermediate text is so carefully designed to make reading Ovid a pleasure.

This edition of the first two books of Virgil's twelve-book masterpiece the Aeneid is designed to provide all the help that someone who has finished an introductory course in Latin will need to read Virgil accurately, intelligently and with maximum benefit and pleasure.

Apuleius' famous novel, The Metamorphoses, tells the story of a man who was magically changed into an ass and had various entertaining adventures before regaining his human form. This book contains selections and is aimed at students moving on to genuine, unsimplified Latin prose after completing an introductory Latin course.