Pliny The Younger’s Character as Revealed Through His Letters      Intermediate Reader/Grammar Review 4th Edition     2000     ISBN 0-9628450-5-1   Click Here To Order   Table of Contents for this book

            Pliny the Younger's Character as Revealed through his Letters is coordinated to my introductory text, Latin Alive and Well (L.A.W.), though any comprehensive introductory text that covers Latin grammar through the most common subjunctive usages will provide an adequate background.  I have chosen the correspondence of Pliny the Younger because it is interesting, personal, covers various subjects, and, gives an overview by example of the societal duties of a model aristocratic citizen.

            Every chapter of each of my readers begins with a referenced listing of grammar that might be helpful to review before beginning the translation at hand.  New grammar and vocabulary, i.e., grammar and vocabulary not contained in L.A.W., is provided in each chapter as it is encountered. (At the end of the text is a glossary of the vocabulary covered in L.A.W.)  In order to make the text translation more easily comprehensible, I have devised simplified sentences that make the subject, basic outline of the passage, and new grammar familiar before attacking the original text. 

            The strengths of this text are:

1)      interesting and entertaining subject matter;

2)      a suggested Grammar Review for each chapter;

3)      presentation of New Grammar for each chapter;

4)      simplified Sentences that precede each translation;

5)      a list of new Vocabulary for each chapter.

Pliny the Younger’s  Character as Revealed through his Letters is in Word format; it is 86 pages in length.

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