SCRINIUM LATIN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A bare TOC for the links in the SCRINIUM LATIN

• Surfing the Internet
• On Literature Suggestion for a wide-angle approach to the understanding of the literary Classics from the ancient world, as read in a modern setting.
• Humanities: Friend or Foe? Worship of the Humanities can blind us to some of the inherent dangers.
• On New Thought in the Age of the Computers The new ways of thinking which have emerged since the spread of computers, are instant, intuitive, expansive and (basically) non-verbal, a bitter pill to the traditional verbally oriented Humanist.
• Romulus: Reading with plain text or Commentaries? A discussion and reference to the URL for a paper published l996 on the need for new Commentaries.
• On the State of Classics Problems with the academic field of Classics, where it is coming from and where it is going.
• A Requiem for Philology

TEACHERS AND LEARNING

• President Calvin Coolidge: Classicist or Politician? A retrospective view of what Classics meant to the educated world in 1921, as VP Coolidge (by no means taciturn) delivered this liberal paper on the Classics
• A Theophrastan Character A wry description of a kind of Professor we have all known, part of the academic scene of mid- 20th c. perhaps, but not an extinct species.
• Tenure: Academic Freedom or Freeloading? A short statement about tenure, looking back over three quarters of a century since it was implemented.
• Teachers and Pay One often hears contradictory reports on teachers' earnings, complaints about too high or too low. This is a brief attempt to correlate typical academic pay with pay for similar skills elsewhere.

WRITING IN ENGLISH AND LATIN STUDY

• Why Can't Johnny Write? An in-depth study of cultural, psychological and mental factors which have made our students foreign to the written word.
• Writing Disaster: Loss of FOCUS A discussion of part of the difficulties in English writing, from the point of view of "unclear mental focus" as against simple writing skills.
• Reading at the College Level Levels of reading required for success in college humanities coursework
• Linguistics: The New Grammar A new approach to language study incorporating rational explanations of functions in English as preparations for language study.
• A Computer Aided Reading Project A review of some of the possibilities with computers, from the Yale reading programs of the pre-computer age. Directed toward practical use with English , but usable for any foreign language reading program which intends to teach real reading skills.
• A Manual of College Writing! A humorous if satirical document offering advice to students for survival with a minimum or risk and work in today's colleges.

TRANSLATION

• Preface
• A College Translation Course A course in the Art and Craft of Translation given at Middlebury College
• "On Looking into Homer's Homer...." Centuries of change reading Homer, as we drag him to the Trash.
• The situation is the same for Homer and Vergil as we move into "Classics in English" exclusively.
• Catullus in experimental translation
• Horace, some transparent translations
• Persius
• Vergil: Aeneid I and IV, a New Translation Scenario for a Radio-Drama Presentation of the Aeneid Book I, with a new acoustically readable translation of I and IV.
• CYBELE: The Lady of Dindymus Scenario for a Ballet on the castration cult of the Magna Mater, with translation and text.

LATIN BACKGROUND

• The Intelligent Person's Guide to the Latin Language
• The Intelligent Person's Guide to the Latin Language
  In two parts if you are short of memory... a very long file.
• A Thought about the Study of Latin
• Beginning Latin...
• A Note on the Latin Language
• The Periods of Latin Literature
• Latin and Logic?
• The Indo-European Linguistic Background
• Romanic Developments from Latin
• The Correct Pronunciation?
• Phonemic Length In Latin
• Stress Accent and Pronunciation
• Latin Poetry and Reading Verse
• The Sin of Silent Reading
• Problems with Vocabulary and Dictionaries
• Latin Authors: A dozen short sketches

READING LATIN TEXTS

• Linguistic Prolegomena to Studying a Language A formal approach to the forms, functions and logic of English, as prolegomena for language study
• The Electronic Latin Dictionary Project
• Romulus: Reading with plain text or with Commentaries? A discussion and reference to the URL for a paper published l996 on the need for serious, new Commentaries.
• The Intelligent Reader's Latin Chrestomathy A group of representative Latin poems, examined with careful notes and comment.
• Latin text The Letter of Pliny X 96 to Trajan regarding the "Christian Problem"
• Cinema and Poetry A study of visual materials inherent in Classical poetry, with two interpretations of overlooked poems from Horace and Propertius
• Pervigilium Veneris Short introduction and the full Latin text of a remarkable and unique piece of 3 c. a.d. accentual Latin poetry. This text is hard to find, I suggest printing it out.
• A Catullus Reader A large number of poems of Catullus with introductionary comments, rearranged in a new, subject based order.
• CYBELE: The Lady of Dindymus Scenario for a Ballet on the castration cult of the Magna Mater, with translation and text.
• Vergil: The Secret Life Drawing on materials from the ancient Lives or Vitae of Vergil, a detailed account of the largely unknown aspects of this great poet's curious personality. Important reading as background for serious students.
• Vitae Verg. A shortened and edited edition of the "Secret Life" for students, similar materials to the above.
• Vergil Aeneid 1, in uncial format A presentation of the first 100 lines of Aeneid I in several formats to show what kind of texts the Romans actually read.
• Vergil: Aeneid I and IV, a New Translation Scenario for a Radio-Drama Presentation of the Aeneid BookI, with a new acoustically readable translation of I and IV.
• Vergil's Aeneid Book IV, the Latin text The Latin of Book IV of the Aeneid, for downloading, to be used on screen with the electronic Humanist's Latin Dictionary. Or download and print.
• Vergil Introduction and Comment: Part 1 A detailed introduction to the art of Vergil, serious reading for serious students, followed by a detailed interpretative commentary of half of Aeneid IV.
• Vergil Introduction and Comment: Part II Continuation of Vergil Part I supra.
• Aeneid IV SchoolNotes This is a scanned and edited set of student aid notes from al9th c. typical high school textbook, edited somewhat for today's grammatical wording. Perhaps useful but perhaps not, take a look!
• A rare Little Medieval Poem ?