Anne H. Groton, PhD
Anne H. Groton has taught since 1981 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where she is professor of classics and chairs the Department of Classics. Groton received her BA from Wellesley College and her PhD in classical studies at the University of Michigan. Every other year she directs a student production of a play by Plautus, performed in a musical mixture of Latin and English. In 1995 she received the American Philological Association's Award for Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics. Groton is the author of several articles on ancient comedies as well as From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek (Focus, 1993, fourth edition 2013) and is the coauthor (with James M. May) of Thirty-Eight Latin Stories (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, fifth edition, 1995).
Books by Anne H. Groton, PhD
Thirty-eight Latin Stories: 5th edition Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin (7th Edition)
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- 978-0-86516-289-1
This fifth revised edition accommodates the changes incorporated in the seventh edition of Wheelock.
Though designed specifically for use with Wheelock's introductory Latin course, 38 Latin Stories will complement other introductory Latin courses. 38 Latin Stories contains beginning-level prose readings that gradually increase in complexity. Eighteen of the selections are original compositions recounting tales from classical mythology and are often inspired by Ovid. Twenty are adaptations of passages from Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Petronius, Pliny, Quintilian, Sallust, Terence, and Vergil with a heavy emphasis on Cicero.
Thirty-eight Latin Stories: Teacher's Guide
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- 978-0-86516-591-5
This Teacher's Guide to Thirty-Eight Latin Stories provides a literal translation answer key for all of the stories found in the popular reader. The Guide was developed in response to frequent requests from teachers, homeschoolers, and people who are learning Latin on their own.
