Yasuko Taoka, PhD
Yasuko Taoka is an associate professor of Classics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Taoka received her BA from Grinnell College, and her MA and PhD from the Ohio State University. Her research interests include epistolography, Roman philosophy, and classical reception in the contemporary world. She has published on Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Fronto, and the reception of the Odyssey. She is the author of Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume II: Selections from Horace, Lucretius, Seneca, Suetonius, and Tacitus (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2015).
Books by Yasuko Taoka, PhD
Lectiones Memorabiles Volume III Selections from Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Livy, Ovid, and Vergil
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- 858C
- 978-0-86516-858-9
This volume provides the prescribed passages for the IB Latin Syllabus with examinations 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Volume III contains the passages for the Vergil, History, and Love Poetry portions of the syllabus.
Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume II: Selections from Horace, Lucretius, Seneca, Suetonius, and Tacitus
- 830X
- 978-0-86516-830-5
A discounted price is available for the two-volume bundle.
This reader contains the prescribed passages for the History and Good Living portions of the IB® Latin Syllabus with examinations in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Same- and facing-page notes provide historical background, cultural context, and grammatical assistance. Introductions to each selection orient students to significant themes and events. The reader includes introductions to each author, appendices on meter and on literary terms, and a historical timeline. The prescribed passages for Vergil, Love Poetry, and Women can be found in Lectiones Memorabiles: Volume I.
