BC Latin Reader Series
These readers, written by experts in the field, provide well annotated Latin selections to be used as authoritative introductions to Latin authors, genres, or topics, for intermediate or advanced college Latin study. Their relatively small size (covering 500-600 lines) makes them ideal to use in combination.
Each volume in the nineteen-volume series includes a comprehensive introduction, bibliography for further reading, Latin text with notes at the back, and complete vocabulary.
Reviews
A Roman Women Reader: Selections from the Second Century BCE through Second Century CE, CJ-Online.2015.08.06
A Roman Women Reader: Selections from the Second Century BCE through Second Century CE, The Euroclassicist.2015.01.23
A Tacitus Reader: Selections from Annales, Historiae, Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.2014.10.17
A Roman Army Reader: Twenty-One Selections from Literary, Epigraphic, and Other Documents, Classical Journal Online.2014.08.05
A Roman Army Reader: Twenty-One Selections from Literary, Epigraphic, and Other Documents, Bryn Mawr Classical Review.2014.03.56
An Apuelius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses, New England Classical Journal 41.1 (2014)
A Livy Reader: Selections from Ab Urbe Condita, CJ-Online.2013.08.03
Roman Verse Satire Reader and Martial Reader, CJ-Online.2012.12.11
A Seneca Reader: Selections from Prose and Tragedy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.09.38
A Martial Reader: Selections from the Epigrams, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.32
A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace, Classical Journal Online 2012.05.08
Teaching Classical Languages
"It is a fine series and the editors have been quite imaginative in how to select and present the passages."Judith Lynn Sebesta,
University of South Dakota
Teaching Classical Languages 2011.Spring
(click to read complete review)
A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.03.76
A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.06.21
A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War, Classical Journal Online 2009.08.03
A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War and A Terence Reader: Selections from Six Plays, The Clearing House, Classical Outlook Fall 2009
A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War, Ancient History at About.com (N. S. Gill)
Abstracts from BC Reader Authors
1. Latin in Small Packages: A Series Editor's Perspective. Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
2. Latin Epic. Alison M. Keith (University of Toronto)
3. Suetonius Segmented. Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University)
4. Seneca for Students: Six Suggestions. James Ker (University of Pennsylvania)
5. A Cicero Reader. James M. May (St. Olaf College)
Series Editor
Ronnie Ancona is Professor of Classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center (CUNY).
Her publications include Time and the Erotic in Horace’s Odes (Duke University Press), Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9, Writing Passion Plus: A Catullus Reader, and Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers). With David J. Murphy, she cowrote Horace: A Transitional Latin Reader and A Horace Workbook, also from BCP. She is coeditor of Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press) and coeditor of New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World (Oxford University Press). She served as series editor for the BC Latin Readers series from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, coedits with Sarah Pomeroy the “Women in Antiquity” series from Oxford University Press, and is editor of The Classical Outlook. Her current research project focuses on Martha Graham’s Greek myth–based dances and her collaboration with Isamu Noguchi.
From the Series Editor:
The BC Latin Readers series grew out of a year-long exploration of what teachers of advanced college-level Latin students wanted and needed in the area of textbooks. The answer was short books written by experts, incorporating the best of scholarship and pedagogy, with well annotated selections and vocabulary. The short format allows teachers to use the books as they see fit, using several in a single course for rapid reading or fewer for students with less experience, or using one or two in conjunction with other longer textbooks. While aimed at the advanced college level, we expect the series to be attractive for intermediate-level college students, secondary school students doing advanced Latin work, post-baccalaureate students, and even graduate students.
The books can be mixed and matched to provide a variety of Latin reading opportunities. For example, a course on Vergil might add the Lucan volume to read selections from a later epic. A course on Roman Comedy might require an entire play of Plautus or Terence and then selections from our Plautus and/or Terence volumes. A course on the Roman Historians might use the volumes on Sallust, Tacitus, Caesar, Livy, and Suetonius, or the Roman Army. Teachers will have more freedom to design, revise, or add to their Latin courses using these volumes.
A particular pleasure for me in editing the series has been discovering outstanding Latin scholars who are also committed to pedagogy. The series authors will provide Latin students and teachers with exciting, user-friendly, and reliable guides to their topics.
Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and the Graduate Center (CUNY)
