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In Cherry Bomb's defence (which I leap to like the anachronism I so clearly am), she was talking about a conversation we had last night in which we moved on to the idea of doing Ancient Greek, and whether to attack Homeric or Attic, hence the Odyssey and Iliad.
The Aeneid *is* very good, mind...
Hoom. "Ecce Romani" is OK, IIRC, but rather old-fashioned. I was thinking of maybe using the Cambridge Latin Course, primarily because it's the one I used to use, but mixing it up with some more primary sources. A couple of ideas I had for the first shindig:
"A whole gang of jolly pirate nicknames" - how Barbelith and Rome had the same naming conventions.
Latin as she was spoke - a bit of historical context on the period the Latin of which we would be focusing on (1st Century BC - 1st Century AD)
Quintus est filius. Quintus in cubiculo dormit - the opening chapters of the CLC. Elementary nouns and verbs. The First and Second declension and the present tense. (Maybe the third declension is we have time).
A hit of the hard stuff - A short piece of actual Latin from the time, probably some Catullus, talked through and translated. Not sure about this - might be a bit heavy, but could also be fun, and will help people to get snogs in a way that "just remember every day, neuter plurals end in 'a'" probably won't...
I reckon that would take about an hour and a half to two hours...what do you think? Will have to get some books - if anyone has access to cheap/free photocopying, that may well be very useful. |
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