Peter Jones was co-founder of The Friends of Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Newcastle, and one of the best-known figures in the teaching of the Classics. He regular contributed to national newspapers (The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and TLS), and the author of highly successful books such as Learn Latin, Learn Ancient Greek and the Classics in Translation (also published by Bloomsbury).

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• Preface Introduction 1. amo, a mas, amat . . .The world of Rome: From Romulus to EmpireWord play: Romans in Britain2. More verbs: moneo, rego, audio, capio The world of Rome: From rape to republicWord play: Anglo-Saxons and Normans3. Nouns: Corinna and Delia Carmina BuranaThe world of Rome: The first Roman emperorWord play: The Norman influence4. Nouns: William, Harold and the great 'I am' The world of Rome: The Roman EmpireWord play: The 16th-20th centuries5. Prepositions, prohibitions and possum The world of Rome: The rape of LucretiaWord play: prefixes and suffixes6. Nouns: the third declension The world of Rome: the treacherous schoolmasterWord play: False derivations7. Giving orders and learning plurals Bayeux TapestryThe world of Rome: Hannibal crosses the AlpsWord play: Spelling conventions8. The perfect active and vocatives Bayeux Tapestry, Carmina BuranaThe world of Rome: The grandest old RomanWord play: tense and aspectCONTENTS9. Personal pronouns and the dative case MartialThe world of Rome: The Ides of MarchWord play: Word order and case10. More datives and eo StJohn 12, St Luke 6The world of Rome: An emperor's legacyWord play: Augustus11. The imperfect active StJohn 1, adeste fideles, St Luke 2The world of Rome: Worshipping strange godsWord play: Gerundives12. Perfects and participles StJohn 19The world of Rome: Dealing with ChristiansWord play: '-ant' or '-ent'?13. vola, nolo, malo: the ace. and inf. The world of Rome: Caesar in BritainWord play: Se-xy stuff14. The perfect passive Catullus 85, 70The world of Rome: Roman democracyWord play: Latin roots, modem meaning15. The ablative and adjectives The world of Rome: Women's liberationWord play: Family mottoes and the ablative16. The genitive Catullus The world of Rome: CitizenshipWord play: pes, foot17. The pluperfect active and more passives The world of Rome: SlaveryWord play: Indo-European18. The subjunctive The world of Rome: Slave makes goodWord play: ancient concepts, modern language19. The Bayeux Tapestry and Carmina Burana Word play: Doublets20. Catullus 87 and StJohn 19-20 Word play: ZeusGrammatical SummaryVerbsNounsAdjectivesRecorded VocabularyLatin-EnglishEnglish-LatinGrammatical Index