Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature – The Essential Intermediate Text with Original Passages, Complete Vocabulary, and Cultural Insights

It’s a great companion to Wheelock’s latin. A must, if you are serious about learning lingua latina.

I thought this was a very helpful and useful book, great for learning on your own, and a fantastic first step in reading Latin in the original. The notes were very helpful, and the presence of a dictionary in the back was also very useful. I thought the selections themselves were excellent, and well-sequenced and well-distributed. We start with a lot of Cicero, which I thought was helpful in grappling with complex grammar and getting a feel for some of the elements of Roman style. Livy offered a nice change of pace, though still had some of the stately qualities of Cicero. Then we get to experience poetry with Ovid, and then take a bit of a break, so to speak, with Pliny’s letters. I love that the book ended with the Vulgate and Medieval Latin, which I never encountered in high school. All in all, I thought it was a great anthology and the perfect first step for reading Latin in the original.

I needed this for a Latin 202 class. It arrived in brand new condition, and very quickly as well (I didn't find out I needed it until the first day of class but still didn't miss a single assignment). It has several important Latin texts from Cicero to vulgar, and has helpful definitions on each page and a rather extensive dictionary in the back. If you're a middling Latin learner and wish to do some translating I definitely encourage you to get this book.

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Best Reader to follow a Grammar that I know of; and I have used others! Directions are straight forward, but I had students memorize the vocabulary as the went so that reading was fluent in class. Follows Lingua Latina very well (since the Lingua Latina Reader is not very good).

In my time at the University of Oslo, we had to learn Latin. Most students soon forgot it, and I had probably done so too if it had not been for the opportunity to keep it alive with the help of for example this book by Wheelock, better than such books by other authors. It has made it easier to approach Latin texts in my field with greater comfidence.

Very helpful notes, include information as well as glossing rare terms, but leaves it up to the reader to decide which meaning to use, which I found lead to a better understanding of the texts on my part than if it just gave a suggested meaning. Using this book for a graduate level class in Roman Philology, an amazing text, recommended to students and teachers alike

This is the exact book I needed for my Latin Readings class, and it had a lot of good insight into the language. If you want to learn Latin, this book will help you read much quicker.