Latin Beyond GCSE

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is an experienced examiner of Ancient Greek and the author of many widely used Bloomsbury textbooks including Latin to GCSE (with Henry Cullen, 2016), Essential GCSE Latin (2nd edition, 2014), Greek Beyond GCSE (2nd edition, 2017) and Greek to GCSE (2nd edition, 2016).

• Preface List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsMap of the Roman EmpireChapter 1Use of cases; Verb tenses; Adjectives, adverbs, comparatives and superlatives; Direct questions; Relative clauses; More complex relative clauses; Connecting relative; Prepositions, prefixes and compounds; Present subjunctive; Jussive subjunctive; Wishes for the future; Potential subjunctive; Deliberative questions; Purpose clauses; Sequence of tenses (1); Direct commands; Indirect commands; Verbs of fearing; Perfect subjunctive; Result clauses; Indirect questions; Sequence of tenses (2); Periphrastic future (and future-in-the-past) subjunctive Chapter 2Principal parts and the supine; Indirect statement; Future passive infinitive; Participles; Ablative absolute; Impersonal verbs and impersonal passive; Time clauses; Time clauses implying purpose or proviso; Cum clauses; Inverted cum clauses; Causal clauses; Concessive clauses; Paired and co-ordinated words; Conjunctions (1): connecting; Conjunctions (2): subordinating Chapter 3Predicative dative; Gerunds and gerundives; The gerund; The gerundive; Gerundive looking like a gerund (‘impersonal neuter gerundive of obligation’); Gerund changed into gerundive (‘gerundival attraction’); Conditional sentences; Conditionals (1): open or unknown; Conditionals (2): closed or remote; Wishes and fears for the present and past; Use of quin and quominus, and verbs of preventing; Conventions of extended narrative; Extended indirect speech (‘oratio obliqua’); Subordinate clauses in indirect speech; Open or unknown conditionals in indirect statement; Closed or remote conditionals in indirect statement Chapter 4: AS-level practice passages and sentencesUnseen translation passages Comprehension passagesTranslating from English to Latin English to Latin sentences Chapter 5: A-level practice passagesUnseen prose translation passages: LivyTranslating verse Scansion 300 common words for verse unseens Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, elegiacs Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, hexameters Comprehension passagesTranslating into continuous Latin proseProse composition passages Chapter 6: Readings1: Nepos on Alcibiades and Athens 2: Curtius on Alexander and Porus 3: Livy on Horatius Cocles and on Mucius Scaevola (i) Horatius Cocles (ii) Mucius Scaevola 4: Cicero on how brave men despise death 5: Tacitus on the Great Fire of Rome Summaries of syntax Reference GrammarNouns Adjectives Adverbs Numerals Pronouns Prepositions Verbs Important irregular principal parts Appendices1: Words easily confused 2: Words with more than one meaning3: Pronunciation 4: Roman names 5: Roman dates and times 6: Roman money, weights and measures 7: Roman rulers 8: Roman authorsSummaries of syntaxReference grammarAppendicesGlossary of grammar termsEnglish to Latin vocabularyLatin to English vocabulary Index

As a regular, and very satisfied, user of the original edition of this book, I was rather sceptical about whether a second edition was necessary. What might one want to change? Words duly eaten ... Altogether, a very welcome update, a textbook endorsed by OCR for GCE, and much to be recommended.