Description
The Cambridge Latin Course is set firmly in the cultural context of the Roman world in the first century AD. Book II focuses on life in two Roman provinces: at first in Roman Britain before moving further afield to Egypt. All textbooks in the Course are full colour and offer a wealth of linguistic and cultural material.
The main language features of Book II include:
- Genitive and vocative, singular and plural, using nouns of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd declensions
- Pluperfect tense, all persons, using verbs of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th conjugations
- Word order
- Further pronouns
- Adjectives of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd declensions
- Irregular verbs (volo, nolo, possum)
- Relative clauses
- Present infinitive
- Present participle
- Present imperative
- Longer sentences with postquam, simulac etc.
The main civilisation topics include:
- Slavery and economy in Roman Britain
- The Romans in Britain: the British tribes, Roman conquest and Romanisation, trade
- Cogidubnus
- The palace at Fishbourne
- Alexandria: the city, the Pharos, underwater discoveries
- Egypt: craftmanship and peasant life
- The worship of Isis
- Medicine and science
Use the menu on the left to explore the the many publications available to support Book II of the series.
