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Originally Posted by redbreegull
Definitely didn't realize that learning Greek stories is a big thing for Latin students.
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There is no way around it if you have Latin for more than 2 years, besides Virgil a lot of the classic texts you read and translate for weeks and months will involve Greek history, mythology and philosophy. So when your students translate Ovid about all these topics for months, you can't really ignore the content as teacher.
Also, the stories are entertaining. A dead language isn't all the exciting to teenagers, if you throw in some juicy (and bloody, if you can) history, you are better off.
My Latin prof was a version of the type Vix described. I loved her. She was nuts, all Latin teachers at my school were, not sure another type exists. But man, listening to her sit there, describe beheadings in great detail, was like watching a one person stage play, a good one at that.