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Recent Articles

On Reciting Ancient Latin Poetry

Boiled down and oversimplified there are two schools of thought, and there are good reasons to support either of them. One believes that the recitation of poetry occurred within regular intervals of time;

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An Intro to Scanning Classical Latin Poetry

An introduction to an important skill. I find, typically, that this process is always more difficult to explain than the actual process of scansion is in practice. Nevertheless, I will attempt to break it down as succinctly and clearly as possible below.

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Recent Posts

Library

Ilias

Latina Facta Per Laurentium Vallam

Lorenzo Valla’s Latin Prose translation of the Iliad.

De Civilitate 

Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami

Erasmus’ brief treatise on good manners.

De Ratione Studii

Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami

Erasmus’ work on the method of study for students of Latin and Greek.

Video

Aeneid Book 1 Paraphrased in Latin

Horace Ode 1.11 Recited in Latin

Aeneid Book 2 Paraphrased in Latin

Passages from the Aeneid rendered into prose for smoother reading. 

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