Latin Books for a New Latin Department Library

The LatinTeach email discussion group has done it again -- come up with a valuable list for Latin teachers. This time, a teacher trying to set up a most basic library for a new college Latin department, asked for recommended books. Here are the recommended Latin books, with the Latin grammar selections at the beginning:

• Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar
  J. H. Allen & J. B. Greenough
  Edited by G.L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard & Benj. L. D' Ooge
  Series/ Number College Classical Series
  Clothbound
  ISBN: 0892410019

• Gildersleeves Latin Grammar
  B. L. Gildersleeve, Ward W. Briggs, Gonzalex Lodge
  ISBN: 0865164770
  Hardcover

• A Latin Grammar
  Hale and Buck
  Softcover
  Alibris ID: 8157580642

• New Latin Grammar
  Charles E. Bennett
  ISBN: 0865162611
  Paperback

• A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges
  George M. Lane
  ISBN: 0608350338
  Softcover

• "Bradley's Arnold" Latin Prose Composition
  Second Revised Edition
  J.F. Mountford
  Clothbound
  ISBN: 0892413441
  (ed. note) Another Latin prose comp choice might be:
  Latin Prose Composition
  M. A. North , A. E. Hillard
  ISBN: 0865163081
  Paperback

• An English-Latin dictionary.
  (www.latinteach.com/smithreview.html) Smith and Hall recommended.

• Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.
  Alexander Souter
  Oxford Univ Press
  Hardcover
  ISBN: 0198642040

• Oxford Classical Dictionary
  Edited by Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth
  Oxford University Press
  ISBN: 0198606419
  Hardcover

• Dictionary of Classical Mythology
  Pierre Grimal
  ISBN: 0631201025
  Paperback

• Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources
  Timothy Gantz
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  ISBN: 080184410X

• English Grammar for Students of Latin: The Study Guide for Those Learning Latin (English Grammar Series
  Norma Goldman, Ladislas Szymans
  Olivia & Hill Press
  Paperback
  ISBN: 0934034192

• Odyssey of Homer
  Richmond Lattimore (Translator)
  ISBN: 0060931957

• Iliad of Homer
  Richmond Lattimore (Translator)
  ISBN: 0226469409
  Paperback

• Latin Literature: A History
  Gian Biagio Conte
  Johns Hopkins Univ Press
  Paperback
  ISBN: 0801862531
  or

• Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From Augustus to Justinian
  Albrecht Dihle
  Routledge
  Hardcover
  ISBN: 0415063671
  both recommended but with reservations because they lack footnotes.

• A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary
  John Traupman, William Smith, Theophilus Hall
  Wimbledon Pub Co.
  ISBN: 1898855382
  Hardcover

• Teach the Latin, I Pray You
  Paul Distler, John Traupman
  ISBN: 1898855404
  Hardcover

• Latin: Or the Empire of a Sign
  Francoise Waquet, John Howe
  Verso Books
  ISBN: 1859846157
  Hardcover

• Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine (4e ed.)
  Antoine Meillet, A. Ernout
  ISBN: 2252033592

• Roman Legions
  Henry D. Parker
  ISBN: 0880298545
  Hardcover

• Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position: Catullan Provocations
  William Fitzgerald
  University of California Press
  ISBN: 0520200624
  Hardcover

• Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes
  Ronnie Ancona
  ISBN: 0822314762
  Hardcover

• Latin via Ovid
  Norma Goldman, Jacob Nyenhuis
  ISBN: 0814317324
  Hardcover

• The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
  Neil Faulkner
  ISBN: 0752414855

• The Complete Roman Army
  Adrian Goldsworthy
  ISBN: 0500051240

• Atlas of the Roman World
  Tim Cornell, John Matthews
  ISBN: 0871966522

• The Twelve Caesars
  Michael Grant
  ISBN: 0760700885

The LatinTeach email discussion group is a wonderful resource for Latin teachers and even people who aren't teaching but are still interested in the transmission of the ancient supposedly dead Latin language. Among ongoing topics of conversation are the problems of using macrons with computer programs and online, how to teach pronunciation, and mnemonic devices.