Latin III

Latin III is where the language stops being a paradigm-drilling exercise and starts behaving like a tool for reading actual Roman texts, with the subjunctive mood and participial constructions doing most of the heavy lifting that earlier semesters deferred. You'll work through Wheelock and Cambridge Unit 3 passages, translate both directions, and get a first taste of epigraphy, reading inscriptions as primary sources rather than textbook sentences. For archaeology students this is the bridge between mechanical grammar and being able to handle the Latin you'll actually encounter on monuments, in inscriptions, and across classical scholarship.