Helpful Latin Links
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Grammar Handouts (work in progress)
This will open a LiveBinder with a bunch of handouts and slideshows reviewing all the Latin grammar you need for all levels of Latin.
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Handouts from the Latin Library
This page has TONS of helpful handouts to help you review many topics, covering grammar and vocabulary. Save this one to your favorites for quick reference.
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Latin Tutors
This is a list of tutors who can help High School and Junior High students. The people in the top section of the page are not at Mountain Brook Schools, and their contact information may be out of date. The people in the bottom section are current MBHS advanced Latin students who can help Latin 1 & 2 students. Also, if you know a great tutor, please let me know so I can add her/his information to the page. Thanks!
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Magistrula
You all know magistrula. If you are having trouble with basic forms, this is one of the best places to go. If you create an account and log in, you can even keep track of your progress and see how you're doing.
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All Latin: LatinTutorial YouTube page
The LatinTutorial channel on YouTube has many videos that can be used to brush up on grammar you may be a little rusty on. -
All Latin: Benjamin Johnson's Latin Grammar Videos
A Latin Teacher named Benjamin Johnson has created many helpful videos reviewing Latin grammar on YouTube. This is a link to his Latin Grammar playlist. -
All Latin: Helpful verb form synopsis practice page
This page, courtesy of Dr. Elizabeth H. Sutherland at UT Knoxville, is a great place to go to practice your verb forms. It lets you check whether you are right or not as you go.
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eyeVocab for AP: Caesar (paid: $15)
This is $15 software program that reviews the basic, most frequently used vocabulary words found in the AP syllabus passages of Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War. For more information, there is a 10 minute video on the page explaining how the software works. -
eyeVocab for AP: Vergil (paid: $15)
This is $15 software program that reviews the basic, most frequently used vocabulary words found in the AP syllabus passages of Vergil's Aeneid. For more information, there is a 10 minute video on the page explaining how the software works. -
Johnston's "Private Life of the Romans"
A book about various aspects of daily life in ancient Rome.The Private Life of the Romans
by Harold Whetstone Johnston, Revised by Mary JohnstonScott, Foresman and Company (1903, 1932) -
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
From the Classics Department at the University of Kentucky, this is a list of all the rhetorical devices we will learn, plus some extras. Each one comes with a definition, an English example, and a Latin example, with a link to one in Greek, too!
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Latin III: The Eruption of Vesuvius
A video on YouTube from the Melbourne Museum with an animation of the eruption of Vesuvius. -
Latin IV: Benjamin Johnson's Catullus Videos
A Latin teacher named Benjamin Johnson has created a bunch of very helpful videos on YouTube that take students through the translation and interpretation of many poems by Catullus. This is a link to his Catullus playlist. The list of poems he presents is not the same as the list of the poems we have studied, so there are some of ours that he omits and many he gives which we do not read. Hopefully it is helpful, though. -
Latin IV: Catullus & Cicero
A lecture and discussion from LaTrobe University about who these men were and how their lives were related. -
Bennett's New Latin Grammar at Project Gutenberg
Bennett's Latin Grammar, searchable with links to subject headings in the table of contents.
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Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar at Dickinson
This is a searchable, easy-to-navigate online version of the standard Latin grammar reference work we use in Latin class. It is hosted at the Dickinson College Commentary site, run by the great Christopher Francese.
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Allen & Greenough at Perseus
This link takes you to the Perseus version of Allen & Greenough's Latin grammar. It's the same as the one at Dickinson, but might be easier to use for some folks.
