Open Access Monograph Series: Classics Textbooks

Classics Textbooks
Series Consultant: John Henderson

Ideal for school-level and University students of Latin, and for anybody studying the language for the first time, these Open Access textbooks present extracts from major works including Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Virgil’s Aeneid and Tacitus’s hair-raising descriptions of the excesses of the Emperor Nero in the Annals. 

The Latin is accompanied by extensive commentary that explores the meaning and context of the works, while interpretative essays serve as a model for students developing their own critical writing. Many of our engaging and lucid textbooks also offer study questions and background information as well as the latest scholarship. Also available in free interactive editions with teachers’ comments, they are vital resources for all students of Latin.

Dickinson College Commentaries OBP and Dickinson College partnered to create books that offer enhanced key texts in Latin in Open Access format. Our joint Series appears as both free web resources hosted on the DCC website and as interactive texts released in a variety of formats. Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla), 1–224, 498–521, 532–96, 648–89, 725–835. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson More information Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary Ingo Gildenhard More information Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Introduction, Commentary, Glossary of Terms, Vocabulary Aid and Study Questions Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos More information Ovid, Amores (Book 1) William Turpin More information Cornelius Nepos, 'Life of Hannibal': Latin Text, Notes, Maps, Illustrations and Vocabulary Bret Mulligan More information Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson, et al. More information Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard More information Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299. Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays Ingo Gildenhard More information Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation Ingo Gildenhard More information

And see AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies