Reading phase

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The reading phase is a section of traditional language school lessons.

The reading phase is characterized by the fact that the language has now been sufficiently learned so that the writings of classical authors can be read and translated in the original.

Latin

Historian Cornelius Nepos , today mostly Gaius Iulius Caesar , then often Pliny the Younger and Roman poets such as Catullus or Ovid offered the entry into the reading phase . Later, more difficult authors such as Cicero , Sallust , Seneca , Livius , Tacitus or Virgil are translated.

Greek

Xenophon , Lukian or the New Testament are often used as initial reading . This is followed by reading of more demanding authors such as Herodotus , Plato and Homer and, in the most demanding case, Sophocles , Euripides or Thucydides .

literature

Hans-Joachim Glücklich: Latin Lessons - Didactics and Methodology , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993