Description

The Cambridge Latin Course is set firmly in the cultural context of the Roman world in the first century AD. Book III starts by looking at life in Roman Bath, and then moves on to Roman Chester, investigating religion and the army in the process. All textbooks in the Course are full colour and offer a wealth of linguistic and cultural material.

The main language features of Book III include:

• Perfect passive and active participles
• Formation of adjectives and adverbs
• Neuter nouns
• Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
• Indirect questions
• Purpose clauses
• Indirect commands
• Result clauses
• Gerundives
• Ablative case
• Expressions of time
• Prepositions

The main civilisation topics include:

• Aquae Sulis and its baths
• Magic and curses
• Roman religion: sacrifice, divination, state religion and romanisation
• Travel and communication
• The legionary soldier: recruitment, training, work, pay, promotion and auxiliaries
• Agricola, governor of Britain
• The legionary fortress
• Interpreting the evidence: literary, archaeological and inscriptional

Use the menu on the left to explore the the many publications available to support Book III of the series.