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Wheelock's Latin (originally titled Latin and later Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors) is a comprehensive beginning Latin textbook. Chapters introduce related grammatical topics and assume little or no prior knowledge of Latin grammar or language.
Wheelock wrote a number of papers and reviews in the areas of textual criticism, paleography, and Latin studies. Some of his works include: Wheelock's Latin [5] Wheelock's Latin Reader, [6] previously titled Latin Literature: A Book of Readings [7] Introduction and annotations of Quintilian as Educator (translated by H. E. Butler) [3]
In the United States, in grammars such as Gildersleeve and Lodge's Latin Grammar (1895), the traditional order is used, with the genitive case in the second place and ablative last. In the popularly used Wheelock's Latin (1956, 7th edition 2011) and Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (1903), however, the vocative is placed at the end.
In Germany, Latin is a choice for the compulsory second language at the Gymnasium (main secondary school preparing for university entry), usually together with French and sometimes Spanish, Russian etc. Nearly one third of students at the Gymnasium [3] learn Latin for a number of years, [4] and a Latin certificate ("Latinum") is a requirement ...
Wheelock's method is regarded as outdated, missing the new achievements of modern didactics, besides not teaching the understanding Latin texts, but focusing on dumb translations. Perhaps that's why Wheelock's book evokes nothing but sardonic laughter amongst Latin teachers, especially in Europe.
Wheelock produced the editio princeps of the Old English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1643–1644). [7] In the same work he published an important edition – and the first in England – of Bede's Ecclesiastical History in its original Latin text, [8] opposite the Old English version, along with Anglo-Saxon laws.
Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Connecticut, to Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Huntington, who had a prosperous farm of 300 acres. [1] He is the great-grandson of the first teacher of the first free school in the United States (see Dedham, Massachusetts), the Rev. Ralph Wheelock.
The word libellus is a Latin diminutive form of the ordinary word liber (meaning "book"), from which we get the English word library. Literally, it means "little book". Sometimes the word was used to describe what we would call: essays, tracts, pamphlets, or petitions.