Wheelock's Latin Reader, 2nd Edition: Selections from Latin Literature

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.

A classic Latin reader used in nearly every Latin course. Highly recommended

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.

Great for your library of Latin books. The supplemental readings progress from not so easy to more difficult with a lot of help on the way. You should get this book if you are studying Latin.

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

I've been using Memoria Press's First-Fourth Form Latin books with teacher's guide and answer keys. So I plan to use that Wherlock's Latin Reader for more practice.

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.

I bought this book mainly for the mediaeval section rather than the Classical excerpts. I’d read a lot of Cicero and didn’t think I would get much from the selections, but I was pleasantly surprised to find there was a lot of Cicero’s philosophical writing here. I’ve read very little of that (I have an aversion to philosophy) but enjoyed reading bite-size chunks of works that I’ve previously by-passed. As for Livy, I’m always happy to read the account of Hannibal crossing the Alps, and Pliny’s account of Vesuvius is always gripping.The mediaeval section has some interesting sections from Bede as well as the Vulgate, and the drinking song from Carmina Burana is great, especially if you know Carl Orff’s work. You can really belt it out and feel good if, like me, you’re a drinker.This edition has a useful introduction to each writer and extensive notes facing the text. These are helpful for glossing difficult words or words used in an unusual sense, as well as for explaining obscure points of grammar.I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to move from translating short passages of Latin to reading the actual works of the great Latin writers.

The content of this book is proving useful for my self-help Latin class, but there is a major snag with the Kindle edition. There is no attempt to modify the layout of text and notes for Kindle; instead, what I think has happened is that the sequence needed to produce notes opposite text for the printed edition has been adopted unchanged for Kindle. It would be far easier to navigate the book if the notes followed the relevant text - as it is, they can be before or after, and are tricky to marry up with the text. My solution is to have the book open on two devices, text on one screen and matching notes on the other screen, but this is hardly ideal. This is why three stars rather than four.

A varied and interesting selection of texts with good introductions. The main drawback, however, is that the vocabulary and grammar aid on the page facing the text is insufficient (for me - being an intermediate-level student of Latin having completed an introductory course and some additional reading from the Steadman series). I had to add some 10 words and often some 10-20 comments on grammar on each page to help myself out and make extensive use of not only the vocabulary in the back og the book but also other sources for grammar. In addition, the facing vocabulary does not provide macrons, so I ended up looking up even the words that were already provided to make sure I got the pronunciation right. This, of course, is a frustrating waste of time given the concept of the book is precisely to save the intermediate-level Latin reader from doing so. For intermediary readers like myself I recommend to begin with the Geoffrey Steadman series which provides more aid on the facing page.

a perfect compliment

Well laid-out, clearly explained,,useful practice exercises and a test (with answers) for each chapter. Good vocab section; clear print, and some amusing asides throughout.Makes the old Kennedey's Primer look medieval.A first-class handbookGraham Butler