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Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta Oratio (Latin Edition)

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This book is perfect for the classroom and professors who are interested in teaching Latin, Cicero in particular, at the college level. The book contains relevant information, vital to the understanding of Cicero and his writing style as well a running list of vocabulary. Students learn easily from this book and complete the course with a much better understanding of Latin and Cicero. This book is particularly good for those students who wish to pursue a career in the field of classics or just enhance their knowledge of Latin. Buy this book!!

I am a graduate student in a History PhD program. I just finished reading this with three classmates and our professor as part of an intensive summer Latin class geared toward reading comprehension.

I am in no position to critiqe Cicero.

The editor, Prof. Steven M. Cerutti, of East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina, has provided a book which we all found quite useful for our purposes. The running vocabulary list, which lists a word three times before dropping it, was very helpful, though it seemed as though the last definition listed as a possible translation for the word was the most appropriate one. Some footnotes were more helpful than others, and occasionally, our professor interpreted the grammar in a different way than the footnotes, but on the whole, the editor's work was very helpful to us as students. The Prof said it was "adequate."

I used this as one of my main texts in my first graduate Latin course, and it fit the bill perfectly. The introduction was helpful and relevant, and the notes were copious and nearly always helpful. I found it helpful that the running vocabulary was kept separate from the grammatical notes, though this is, I have discovered, somewhat of a standard format. Contrary to another review, I quite liked that several definitions are given in the running vocabulary, rather than simply giving the one that the editor feels is most appropriate for the given context.

I would highly recommend this for anyone from third year high school Latin on up.