Two thousand years of Latin Prose is a digital anthology of Latin Prose. Here you will be able to find texts from two millennia of gems in Latin. In this third chapter, we will learn about, and read part of a speech from, Gaius Gracchus as found in Aulus Gellius...
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Chapter 2 – Cato Maior: The Art Of Growing Asparagus
Two thousand years of Latin Prose is a digital anthology of Latin Prose. Here you will be able to find texts from two millennia of gems in Latin. In this second chapter, we will learn about, and read from, Cato Maior's work De Agricultura. If you want to...
Chapter 1 – Ennius: Saturn and the Struggle for Power
Two thousand years of Latin Prose is a digital anthology of Latin Prose. Here you will be able to find texts from two millennia of gems in Latin. In this chapter, the very first of many to come, we will go back to about 200 years B.C. and learn about, and read...
2000 Years of Latin Prose – Preface
2000 Years of Latin Prose This project, 2000 years of Latin Prose, has several faces: It is a digital anthology over Latin Prose; it is a course that will teach not only about texts written in Latin but about the authors who wrote them and their contexts; it is an...
Latinitium: Year in review 2018
A new year is about to begin, but before we step into the future with fireworks and champagne, it is time to take a moment and gaze back into the year that we soon leave behind. For Latinitium, it’s been a busy, exciting year. We stepped into a snowy last January with...
Saxo Grammaticus and the Deeds of the Danes
In March 2018 Kungliga biblioteket, i.e. The Swedish Royal Library, bought a book for 2 million Swedish crowns – that is roughly 180.000 euro or 220.000 dollar. Later on the book was on display for three short days. Latinitium...
Omnia Vincit Amor: Love in Ancient Rome
Omnia vincit amor is one of the most famous of all Latin expressions. It is also one of the most used ones still today, both in the original Latin, in translation and in its familiar “altered” version Amor vincit omnia. We hear the phrase in wedding speeches, we see...
Iacta Alea Est: Crossing the Rubicon
On January 10th, 49 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar uttered one of history’s most famous lines, Iacta alea est (sometimes written alea iacta est), after which he crossed the Rubicon river with his army and set the Roman Civil War in motion.
Invita Minerva: Going Against a Goddess
Have you ever done something Invita Minerva? Most people have. Have you ever said you have a lovely singing voice, but once on stage, you sound like an angry pig? Have you ever tried to come up with a lesson plan to end all lesson plans for your class, only to pull...