Aimed at readers of all levels--from student to classics buff to serious scholars--this sourcebook looks at sport and recreation in ancient Greece through translated accounts of ancient Greek and Latin authors. It examines such diversions as the ancient Olympic Games, athletic clothing, women in sports, dining, dancing, and fishing. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece offers a wide range of topics geared to students' interests, new translations into readable English that facilitate their introduction to the subject, and a rich assortment of illustrations. The questions following each translation help students understand the passages, while the presentation of contradictory evidence challenges them to evaluate different points of view, both in the study of ancient culture and in their own daily lives. Successfully tested in college classrooms for a ten years, this book provides an excellent springboard for the study of ancient Greek history, classical literature, or sports history.

Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook with Translations

History

Sweet, Waldo E.

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

This study examines sport and recreation in ancient Greece, through the translated accounts of ancient Greek and Latin authors. It examines the athletic events of the ancient Olympics and other games, athletic clothing, women in sports, and accounts of famous athletes.

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

A great many students enter an etymology course with only one goal -- to learn new words with the hope that they will be more successful in classwork, in standardized exams, or in a variety of work-related situations. In A Course on Words students will indeed learn new words, but, more important, they will gain an understanding of how words are built and how they can use this information to analyze new words that they will encounter outside the classroom. They will spend most of the time learning elements of words that will enable them to determine the meanings of many new words in the future. As one student put it, this book seems to "sensitize us to words and get us to think about words." The book is unusual in that it offers both programmed and nonprogrammed material. Each type of material is designed to provide students with the maximum amount of involvement and practice. The students do not simply read definitions of words, as is the case with some courses. Rather, they engage in many different activities; not only defining words but analyzing and building them, and learning to use context to derive meaning. The programmed approach enables students to do the work on their own and receive immediate checks of their answers. Classroom time, therefore, is free for review, reinforcement of programmed activities, work on the nonprogrammed material, and attention to the needs of individual students. The book also includes at the end a set of Supplementary Exercises for each unit. The nonprogrammed materials include "Review Exercises," "Words of Interesting Origin," "Easily Confused Words," and "Latin Phrases." These provide practice in concepts learned in the unit and an opportunity to explore a wide variety of topics, such as eponymous words and the literal meanings of Latin expressions used in English.

A Course on Words

Reference

Knudsvig, Glenn M.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

University of Michigan Press

Unit Tests Level One is part of the Artes Latinae series, which is a programmed, self-teaching Latin course structured to accommodate multiple levels of students, each learning at his or her own pace. The Unit Tests booklet provides a means for evaluating student progress and identify portions of the material needing further review.

Artes Latinae, Level 1: Unit Test Booklet

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

This reader has two main purposes. The first is to give you the fun of using the Latin you have learned. The second is to expose you yo more examples of the structures you have mastered.

Lectiones primae: A graded reader (Artes Latinae)

Bolchazy-Carducci

Teacher's Guide to Lectiones Primae (Artes Latinae: Graded Reader, Level 1)

Moore, Judith B.

Artes Latinae Guide to Unit Tests for Level Two: Units 1–24

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