Germany Jahrgangsstufe 12 Latin
Chapters: 3
1. Texts and their cultural context
Roman philosophy: Stoic and Epicurean views · Roman satire on politics and society
- Ancient Philosophy: From the First Questions to Stoicism – Philosophy means 'love of wisdom'. Around 600 BCE Greek thinkers began to explain nature by reason (logos) instead of myth. The Presocratics searched for the first principle (arche): water, air, fire, unchanging being or atoms. Then the Sophists and Socrates turned to human life, and Socrates died for his questioning (told in Plato's Apology). Plato taught the theory of Forms; Aristotle built logic and science from observation. Later Stoics, Epicureans and Cynics, and Romans like Cicero and Seneca, asked how to live a good, calm life.
2. Language basics
Latin vocabulary · Latin morphology and syntax
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3. Methods
Methods for Latin text work
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