Helena Dettmer, PhD
Helena Dettmer is professor of classics and Associate Dean at the University of Iowa. Dettmer received a BA in classics from Indiana University and a PhD in classics from the University of Michigan. She has served as coeditor of Syllecta Classica and has written numerous articles and papers on Catullus and the Latin elegiac poets. She has served as president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Currently, she is working on a book entitled Love and Its Complexities: Design and Meaning in Ovid's Amores. Dettmer is the author of Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997) and Horace: A Study in Structure (Olms-Weidmann, 1983), coauthor with Marcia Lindgren of A Workbook for Ayers' English Words from Latin and Greek Elements (University of Arizona Press, 1986, 2nd edition, 1990, 2nd edition revised, 2005), coauthor with LeaAnn Osburn of A Catullus Workbook (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2006), and coeditor with LeaAnn Osburn of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 3 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2012) and Latin 3: Select Latin Enrichment Readings (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2013).
Books by Helena Dettmer, PhD
A Catullus Workbook
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Latin Literature Workbook Series: These workbooks are a teacher’s dream—providing all the activities and exercises needed to reinforce the careful reading of classical authors in the original. Sets of exercises engage students with the text and lead them to a heightened understanding of the literary, thematic, poetic, and rhetorical accomplishments of the work.
A Catullus Workbook: Teacher's Manual
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- 978-0-86516-624-0
Teachers and students enjoy the sophisticated poems of Catullus. A Catullus Workbook Teacher’s Manual, the complement to A Catullus Workbook, has been designed and written by two master teachers to assist their colleagues as they maximize their students’ appreciation of the elegance and intricacy of Catullus’ poetry.
Latin for the New Millennium Latin 3: Select Latin Enrichment Readings
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- 978-0-86516-797-1
Introduce your students to a variety of unadapted Latin authors!
Latin for the New Millennium: Student Text, Level 3
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- 978-0-86516-760-5
Latin for the New Millennium provides students a comprehensive grounding in the full legacy of Latin literature.
LNM Level 3 is designed for all Latin 3 students irrespective of the text they used for Latin 1 and 2. Extensive review materials as well as ample vocabulary and grammar/syntax notes make this text especially student-friendly.
LNM Level 3 builds on the strong foundation of Levels 1 and 2 and provides students an in-depth experience of Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Vergil as well as of the Renaissance writer Erasmus. This text provides students an introduction to unadapted Latin literature and builds their literary analysis skills.
