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Karen T. Moore has served as the Classical Languages Chair at Grace Academy of Georgetown, Tx. since 2002, where she developed the 3-12th grade classical languages program. She is also a course lecturer for ClassicalU and an adjunct professor of Classics at Houston Christian University. Karen is the author of several Latin books including the Libellus de Historia series, the Latin Alive series (Classical Academic Press) and Hancus ille Vaccanis (Logos Press). Karen holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of Texas at Austin and an MSc with Distinction in Classical Art & Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Karen and her husband Bryan are the proud parents of three Grace Academy alumni. When not reading Latin literature, Karen can be found working in her garden, hiking with her family, or leading her students in adventures across Italy.
Classical schools are largely in agreement that our students should study some Latin. The enormous contributions to students’ vocabulary and grammar and even reasoning skills cannot be ignored. However, many are content to stop after a couple years of study before students have enjoyed reading original texts. This presentation will present the benefits of reading the Great Texts in their original form, thus enabling students to carefully consider the diction, syntax, and style chosen by the original author, not a translation with an agenda. In this manner our students not only gain deeper insight to the author’s work, but they study the beauty of the masters in their craft; men and women who have bequeathed us apples of gold in settings of silver – if only we have the eyes trained to see how they shine in their original glory. Examples from the corpus, both classical and post-classical, will demonstrate that such goals are not merely tantalizing fantasy, but the fruit of such readings are well within reach.