Cambridge Latin Course ~ Book III

Book III starts by looking at life in Roman Bath, and then moves north to Roman Chester, investigating religion and the army in the process. The Book is divided into 8 Stages (Stages 21 to 28). Assessment tests are available at the end of Stages 22, 26 and 28. This Book often represents the beginning of the Key Stage 4 GCSE course for students. 

The main language features of Book III include:

•     Perfect passive and active participles
•     Formation of adjectives and adverbs
•     Neuter nouns
•     Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
•     Indirect questions
•     Purpose clauses
•     Indirect commands
•     Result clauses
•     Gerundives
•     Ablative case
•     Expressions of time
•     Prepositions

The main civilisation topics include:

•     Aquae Sulis and its baths
•     Magic and curses
•     Roman religion: sacrifice, divination, state religion and romanisation
•     Travel and communication
•     The legionary soldier: recruitment, training, work, pay, promotion and auxiliaries
•     Agricola, governor of Britain
•     The legionary fortress
•     Interpreting the evidence: literary, archaeological and inscriptional