50% off on Selected Titles
The sale runs until October 31st, 2011 or until we sell our inventory of these spiral bound books.
The six books are :
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Receive a Free Copy of
Selections from Cicero’s Second Verrine Oration: Book 4
with any order over $10.00 through August 31, 2010.
Edited by Mary Clark, this 30 page book is ideal as a first Cicero reader. The book includes the Latin text with introduction, facing vocabularies and notes, comprehension questions, and a complete end vocabulary.
Other Cicero texts available from CANE Press include:
- Cicero on Self-Realization and Self-Fulfillment
- Cicero on The Path of Justice
- Cicero’s First Speech against Catiline
The Teacher’s Guide to Cicero, is a recent publication from CANE Press in response to a frequently articulated need for resources, and for innovative and traditional approaches to the teaching of Cicero’s works. It represents the collaborative scholarship and creativity of university professors and high school teachers across the country. Rather than a singular view or perspective, it represents a broad spectrum of ideas on the teaching of Cicero.
(0)Summer Sale on 4
of Our Best Selling Titles
CANE Press is pleased to announce a Special Summer Sale running from June 8, 2010 through July 31, 2010 on four of our best-selling books.
- Disciplina Clericalis, Petrus Alphonsus regular price $16 now only $12.80
- Fables by Phaedrus regular price $24 now only $19.20
- Plautus for Reading and Production regular price $15 now only $12.00
- The Story of the Prophet Daniel (2009 Edition) regular price $16 now only $12.80
More About These Titles…
Disciplina Clericalis, Petrus Alphonsus This collection, never before edited with notes, is a source for Medieval fables and tales, taken from many different sources; examples are given in the back of the book with notes. This is the perfect sourcebook for readings for classes at the intermediate level.
Fables by Phaedrus Fables are always fun for students. Here not only are the Phaedrus fables, with excellent notes, but also the fables of Aesop and Babrius (in English), the Medieval versions (in Latin with notes) and LaFontaine. A wonderful book for mixed classes: the lower level students can read the Phaedrus and English, and the upper level students can read the Phaedrus and the Medieval Latin. Fun for everyone!
Plautus for Reading and Production A revision of the original book, this abbreviated (but totally authentic) text of 3 major comedies and scenes from 4 others is a crowd pleaser. The information on performance gives students many chances to expand on the stories and perform them. An excellent book for the intermediate level.
The Story of the Prophet Daniel Here are 2 text versions with notes of the Medieval Play of Daniel: Beauvais, which is available on CDs, and Hilarius. There is a wealth of ancillary material, too: scholarly articles on various elements in the plays, a discussion of characters and drama in the Middle Ages, and parts of the Apocrypha in English. A fascinating book and great for multi-media presentations.
(0)First, read the Introduction and see how the folk tale and wisdom literature elements are presented. If your students are interested in this, there is a wealth of material for them to use in writing/researching a paper on many of the stories.
Second, in a multi-level class, you can have all the students read the actual Alphonsus story, then have the more advanced students read either the Gesta versions or the other Latin sources that are presented with each story. The less advanced students can read about the wisdom/folk tale origins in English and add their commentary.
You can also have students write their own moral to the story, whether it’s the Alphonsus or the Gesta version.
Story-telling might actually be the “oldest profession.” While the stories all have a supposed moral, quite frankly they offer great entertainment value. Most of them are short and give you a good feeling for the culture of the Middle Ages.
Many of Alphonsus’ stories were later used in the Gesta Romanorum, and he also gathered stories from all over: India, the Near East (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) and Europe. They are a combination of folktales and wisdom literature, all of which is carefully explained in the notes to both the text and the book itself.
Like much of Medieval Latin, the prose is straight-forward and the word order easy to understand. Once you have gotten accustomed to the spelling (e.g., c instead of t, cepit instead of coepit), which is explained in the notes, and think of the English derivatives, the translating is easy, and the text can even be read without conscious translation. The discussion questions can lead to further conversation and study.