A broad literary evaluation of the poet's major achievements, based on a selective consideration of recent critical studies, is presented in this booklet. An approach is developed in the analysis of the "Eclogues" as poems, the "Georgics", and the "Aeneid" which considers the underlying significance, moral values, and "tensions" between behavior…

This study examines the relation between the motivational structure and use of learning strategies of high school foreign language students. Students in 36 foreign language classrooms (French, German, Latin, and Spanish; first- through fifth-years) from a large Midwestern high school participated in the study (N=694). As predicted, correlation and…

Criticizes traditional reasons for Classics study and states that education is the initiation of a new generation into the skills and knowledge structures of an existing tradition. Aesthetics and philosophy, religion and morals, knowledge of self and others, and mathematics and science may be understood through Classics.

An enthusiastic Latin teacher responded to the challenge of falling class enrollment and inspired increased numbers of students to study the language and its literature. (CK)

Several Latinisms appear in Latin American Spanish, which would logically be farther from its Latin roots than Spanish in Spain. The existence of these elements and their importance as linguistic facts is analyzed here. Four words are treated: "Cliente,""cuadrar,""cuarto" and "rabula." (Text is in Spanish.) (CHK)

Concluded from Classical World, v66 p385-427 Apr 1973. (HW)

Discusses three major genealogical classes of words in modern French including words inherited from Latin, words borrowed from other languages, and words created by various formative processes, as part of investigation to establish lexical structure of modern French in terms of the relationships which exist between certain fundamental properties…

Criticizes John Wilson's "Classics and Moral Education," in this issue, as being ambiguous and vague. The view here is that moral education would not derive automatically from classical studies but must be taught and developed, and based on a value system already present. (CHK)

The study of the Classics may develop three kinds of skills: 1) awareness of the importance of hard facts about a culture; 2) awareness of the facts of human nature; and 3) training the mind to think. Such skills and understanding are an important part of moral education. (CHK)

The core of this course is study of the background of the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the "First Oration against Catiline." A review of grammar and syntax is included. Performance objectives focus on a century of chaos which produced the revolutionary Catiline and the conservative Cicero, the Roman Republic, Ciceronian oration, Cicero's…

Stresses the need for Latin instruction in the school curriculum today. The history of Latin instruction in the U.S. is traced starting from the time that writing Latin and analyzing texts in terms of grammatical, logical, and compositional categories were emphasized. (NCR)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between foreign language learning and verbal ability in English as measured by the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Reasoning Test. Comparing foreign language students to nonforeign language students in this study, the effect of taking a foreign language on SAT verbal…

The waning interest in classical studies, particularly affecting Latin language study, in Canada is pointed out and probed for the underlying reasons. The main weaknesses contributing to the declining enrollment figures are seen to be an outdated teaching methodology, an overemphasis on grammar, and failure to interest students in the ideas and…

Version of this paper, entitled Teaching Classical Humanities--and Humanizing Classical Teaching,'' was delivered before the New Jersey Classical Association at Rutgers University. (RS)