The following two textbooks are REQUIRED for all students:

Latin: An Intensive Course by Floyd Moreland and Rita Fleischer
This is the textbook that we will be using for the first half of the workshop. Moreland and Fleischer's text offers a succinct and comprehensive disussion of Latin grammar, and was specifically designed to be used in a summer intensive course. The workshop will be using the SECOND edition of this book. This edition has a blue cover (as opposed to the earlier edition, which had a brown cover). There are some significant changes between these two editions, so it is important that you purchase the right book.

The New College Latin/English Dictionary (John Traupman, ed.)
Although small, this dictionary is remarkably full, and reasonably priced. Student will likely find that this dictionary is sufficient for the Latin that they encounter in their first few years. In addition this dictionary will continue to be a useful, portable supplement to more advanced references like Lewis and Short and the Oxford Latin Dictionary.

The following three textbooks are OPTIONAL for all students:

Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charelton Lewis
This is a much fuller dictionary than Traupman's New College Latin/English Dictionary, but also much more expensive. Students who are interested in investing in a more advanced reference (and this especially applies to students with an interest in Medieval Latin) may wish to purchase this dictionary instead.

Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar by Basil L. Gildersleeve and Gonzalez Lodge
While students in the workshop will be instructed in the major grammatical structures of classical Latin, it is impossible for any introductory Latin course to cover every rare structure and obscure usage. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar is an excellent resource for students who expect to read broadly in classical Latin and may need some of the finer points of Latin grammar explained. (Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is another excellent grammatical resource.)

English Grammar for Students of Latin by Norma Goldman and Ladislas Szymanski
While some small amout of time will be spent in class discussing grammatical terminology (especially those terms that tend to be particular to Latin), it is expected that all workshop students will have experience with at least one other foreign language and therefore will be comfortable with standard grammatical terminology. Even so, some students feel that their grasp of techincal grammar is lacking, and want a short text to act as a refresher. English Grammar for Students of Latin assumes that its reader knows nothing about grammar (one of the first chapters is dedicated to defining the term "word"), and quickly moves through to the more advanced grammatical principles that are most important to a Latin student. If you are befuddled by terms like "direct object," "indirect object," "tense," "participle," or "gerund," you may want to use this book as a reference.

There are four reading classes offered in the second half of the workshop: two in prose and two in verse. Students will need to enroll in one prose course and one poetry course. Each course has its own required texts. Students only need to purchase the texts required for the two courses that they plan to take. Since most students will not know which second-half courses they will want to take when they first enroll, it's usually a good idea not to purchase textbooks until the fifth week of the program.

Classical Prose
Required text: TBA

Survey of Medieval Literature
Required text: A reader of medieval sources which will be compiled in consulatation with interested students and will be available from Krishna Copy.

Classical Prose
Required text: TBA

Catullus
Required text: The Student's Catullus by Daniel H. Garrison

The Student's Catullus offers a complete Latin text of the entire Catullan corpus along with ample notes to help the beginning student tackle even the most challenging of Catullus' poems. Also useful are the metrical appendices which explain the metrical schema for all of Catullus' poetry. The most recent edition (third) is preferred, but any edition will do.

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