Links for Continuation of Beginning Latin REL 293 / HUM 293 - Dr. Rollinson's courses and resources

This page lists Latin resources which are available on the InterNet. You do not need to visit them all, but if at any time you wish to do extra exercises or to read some other professor's course notes, you are encouraged to explore them all.
Classical Latin resources on the Web are numerous - there are several archives of texts, and on-line versions of Latin textbooks and grammar books. The textbooks mostly date from the nineteenth century and often require a knowledge of formal English grammar.
There are also Church-related sources with Latin texts, either sung, spoken, or written. These can give help with the pronunciation of Latin in the Church.

When using grammar resources, you need to be aware that there are several different conventions for listing the cases for nouns and adjectives. You will meet the sequence Nominative-Genitive-Dative-Accusative-Ablative (as in our edition of Wheelock, and in the American edition of the Cambridge course) - this originated in Germany, and is one of the systems used in the USA.
The system Nominative-Vocative-Accusative-Genitive-Dative-Ablative originated in Britain and is also used in the USA. Students who are studying Greek at ENMU will be familiar with this sequence as it used in our Greek textbooks.
There is a Locative case (more important in Russian) which is rare as a separate case in Latin and is usually not listed (see Wheelock, Chapter 37, pages 261-262)
Don't let the variations in sequences bother you - it is much more important to be able to read a word in a sentence and see how it fits into the sentence, than to write its forms out in a particular sequence.

Fishbourne and Sussex - Fishbourne is the site of the large Roman villa or palace which is the setting for parts of Book II of the Cambridge Course. Sussex is the region where the Regnenses tribe and King Cogidubnus lived. The name "Sussex" is due to the invasion and settlement of South Saxons several centuries later

Mosaic floors - Mosaics were used for decoration as we would use rugs or carpets. Many of the floors were extremely artistic and must have taken many hours of painstaking labor to complete. The backgrounds on these webpages are based on a part of one of the Fishbourne mosaics

Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall - When Hadrian was Emperor in AD 122 he had a wall built completely across northern England, from the west coast to the east coast. This was to repel raids from the northern tribes, and to enforce the Roman occupation of the area. There were fortified gateways giving access between north and south, so that movement could be controlled.
Hadrian's Wall was being slowly destroyed by farmers and others taking the stones for their own building projects, until a local land-owner realized that the Wall was an archaeological treasure. He started buying up land along the Wall and restoring it. The Wall is now owned by the British National Trust. There are ongoing archaeological digs at sites on the Wall, and one of the forts has been restored to show what the Roman camps were like. Some of the earliest Christian inscriptions in Britain have been found at the Wall
Later, the Roman Emperor Antonius constructed another wall further north. The Romans found that they could not control the northern regions, and eventually retreated. The Antonine Wall is in poorer condition than Hadrian's Wall

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