mo2 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 FMoR is recommended in LCC as 4th grade "classical studies." In reading the reviews, it seems that it is very conservative and written from a Protestant viewpoint. Is there something similar that is writen from a secular perspective and not so dry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 I guess there's no good alternative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 You could look at The Story of the Romans... Here at Yesterday's Classics: http://www.yesterdaysclassics.com/catalog/displaycatalog.php?catalog=rome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Funny, I've read it and not even thought of it being Christian. The Memoria Press one has lovely pictures, and my son will listen to the Librovox readings while he looks at the pictures.... (I downloaded all the books they had of the FMO...series...) Course, we love history and just listen to tons.. :) I just get the book and Teacher's guide now... and we orally do the questions... (he's 7.5) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 http://materamabilis.org/ma/subjects/history/ancient-rome-level-2/ has Guerber's book (Story of the Romans) as an alternative. Also Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge, as a "for further study" but it looks like it's out of print. Here are all the ancient Rome books from Main Lesson. Eva Tappan and Mrs. Beesley both have books about Roman history, but not exactly the personalities, I guess. I'm interested to hear more details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 If you're Catholic, this series (the old Greenleaf versions, I haven't seen the Memoria Press ones) was OK until the Renaissance/Reformation one IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gratia271 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 FMoR is recommended in LCC as 4th grade "classical studies." In reading the reviews, it seems that it is very conservative and written from a Protestant viewpoint. Is there something similar that is writen from a secular perspective and not so dry? We have read this several times and never noticed any conservatism or protestantism per se. We have read volumes on Ancient Roman history, and this was a fairly cut and dried approach, sometimes dry but not proselytizing in any manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 This link has the entire series for downloading, but Project Gutenberg only has 22 of the biographies. I happened to download it from Kindle. However, for famous Romans, the author only covers 5 men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 Thanks for the suggestions. I actually am reading FMOR on mainlesson right now, and it really doesn't seem too bad. Unless I encounter something objectionable further on in the book, I may just go ahead and use it. I'm going to look into the other choices mentioned above too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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