Getting Started with Intermediate Latin II
Hello! Welcome to the Ancient Language Institute. We’re so excited you’ll be studying Latin with us this 2025 summer term.
You are now enrolled in Intermediate Latin II (L202). Classes will begin the week of May 4, 2025. Please read on to learn more about logistics, course materials, first assignment, and your Zoom classroom.
If you have any questions about the program at any time, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We want to make sure you have the best, smoothest experience with ALI possible. We have and will continue to put in lots of work to ensure your success and happiness, but we do need you to do some work to help us, too. Please read on and we will explain.
Please bookmark this page for future reference – it will be helpful as you prepare for your course. The information presented here is critically important and has several action steps that require your attention.
Overview
- Note down your class meeting schedule.
- Acquire your required course books. They are linked below.
- Get to work on your first assignment (explained below) as soon as possible.
- Look for an email from your teacher one week before classes begin. This will contain your class Zoom link.
- You will receive your full class syllabus on the first day of class.
Class Meeting Time
When you signed up, you selected a course section with a weekly meeting time. That is the day and time your class will meet over Zoom every week. Please save this to your calendar so we don’t have any conflicts arise! If you have forgotten, please check the order notification email you received after checkout. That email will have your course section meeting time. If at any point you need to switch sections, please let us know ASAP. We’re happy to help.
The first week of classes begins May 4, 2025. The last week of classes begins Aug. 3, 2025.
Your teacher will be in touch one week before classes begin with a Zoom link and other logistical information.
Course Materials
In this course, you will be reading from an excellent student edition of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, the ancient Roman historian Livy’s account of the history of Rome. This edition is titled Reading Livy’s Rome. One of its great features is that, when the book is cracked open in front of you, it has on the left-hand side (“verso”) a Latin paraphrase of Livy’s text, and on the right-hand side (“recto”) the actual text of Livy’s work. That way you can get the sense of what Livy is talking about with the aid of some simpler Latin first, and then dive into the harder Latin of Livy’s actual writing with something of a guidepost.
Please buy your copy of Reading Livy’s Rome as soon as possible.
First Assignment
Before you show up to your first class session, we want you to do some reading in preparation. That way we will be able to use the first class session as effectively as possible – and set the stage for a successful term\! So, please complete the following reading before your first class session.
Please read pages 2-9 of Reading Livy’s Rome in preparation for your first class session. Those pages cover “Liber Primus, 4” (about the birth and childhood of Romulus and Remus).
Thanks again for joining us. We are excited to have you in class. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
Very best,
The Ancient Language Institute Team
hello@ancientlanguage.com