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Kennedy's New Latin Primer
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Product Description
The book usually known as Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer has remained, with good reason, the pre-eminent Latin reference grammar in British schools and universities for many decades. Kennedy's New Latin Primer from Tiger Xenophon is the first entirely new edition in two generations. As well as clearer and more legible typography, this new edition has been modernised for today's readers. In earlier editions the English was occasionally almost as alien to the novice as the Latin - with, for instance, quocumque being translated as whither soever. This and many other relics of a bygone age have been revised without the 'dumbing down' which afflicts so many modern textbooks. The sections on pronunciation have been revised to reflect modern scholarship. A US edition of this book is also available. It differs only in a few spellings and the order in which substantives and adjectives are declined.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #204670 in Books
- Published on: 2008-02-13
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
Customer Reviews
Why make a new edition only to get it wrong?
Kennedy's Latin Primer is an essential study guide for anyone learning Latin, whether on an amateur or professional basis, but not this edition. It is rife with typos to the point that it doesn't even look like it has been proof-read let alone revised as the title claims - and in a language like Latin, where any change to a letter or an inflection can change the meaning of the word, this is simply unforgivable. I can find no redeeming features in the book.
