Miraglia's Fabulae Syrae

These commentaries are written for Luigi Miraglia’s Fabulae Syrae, published in 2011. Because this text is still under copyright, I have provided only the commentaries, not the text itself. Mirgalia wrote Fabulae Syrae as a companion to the last third (Chs. 26 -34) of Hans Orberg’s Lingua Latina. Therefore the notes given by Mirgalia in the book itself are scanty, since the Lingua Latina series presumes a mastery of Latin grammar and vocabulary that can only come with speaking or long study. However, the stories contained within Fabulae Syrae are interesting and readily understandable by any student who has recently finished a textbook. Therefore, I have made these commentaries available so that the students who have not used the Lingua Latina series may enjoy these Miraglia’s work. I cannot recommend theses stories highly enough for the interest they provoke in the students, the abundance of material (around 18,500 words, and slow but steady increase in compexity. Because there is no text provided with the commentary, you will have to buy the book Fabulae Syrae (ISBN 978-1585104284), which is well worth the small investment.

These wonderful short stories are mostly prose versions of episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses.


Important: These commentaries are meant to be used in conjunction with The 200, a list of the two hundred most common Latin words as found at the Dickinson College Commentaries.

26.1 - Pygmalion
26.2 - Virginia
26.3 - Europa
26.4 - Cornelia
26.5 - Tarpeia

27.1 - Minos
27.2 - Latona
27.3 - Phrixus et Helle
27.4 - Comatas
27.5 - Coronis

28.1 - Atalanta
28.2 - Veturia
28.3 - Nausicaa
28.5 - Alcestis

29.1 - Orpheus et Eurydice
29.4 - Pandora
29.5 - Niobe

30.1 - Polyphemus et Galatea
30.2 - Glaucus
30.3 - Ceyx et Alcyone
30.4 - Horatius Cocles

31.1 - Deucalion et Pyrrha
31.2 - Prometheus
31.3 - De Centauromachia
31.4 - Tantalus
31.5 - Cadmus

32.2 - Arachne
32.3 - Io
32.4 - Baucis et Philemon

33.1 - Andromeda
33.4 - Laomedon et Hesiona