Having finished Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, we move on to a series of commentaries of Julius Caesar's first book of Civil War.
This is a commentary of the book found on the Perseus Collection
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Friday, 28 September 2012
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Featured Podcast
This week I recommend you listen to this radio interview entitled "You Can't Dream in Latin" by an Australian radio station, it's quite interesting, and discusses the effects of Latin on the Western World.
Click here to Stream the Audio
You can see the transcript here if you wish
Click here to Stream the Audio
You can see the transcript here if you wish
Monday, 17 September 2012
Featured Website
Drills to accompany the Oxford Latin Course, second edition, chapter by chapter from the University of Missouri St Louis.
Here is the Website
Friday, 14 September 2012
Featured Book
Following on from the last featured book, this week is Volume 5 of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Featured Podcasts
Dickinson College has another series of Latin Poetry Podcasts
Christopher Francese, Professor of Classical Studies at Dickinson College, reads short poems in Latin.
The podcasts can be found on iTunes here
Featured Podcast
Some recorded Latin conversations recorded for you
Neo-Latin Colloquia by Various Renaissance Humanists
Neo-Latin Colloquia by Various Renaissance Humanists
Haec sunt colloquia scholastica viva voce acta compositaque ab humanistis sexti decimi saeculi ad usum tyronum linguae latinae. Istis fruere! Si dum audis haec colloquia illa et legere volueris, i ad paginam hanc: http://www.chlt.org/sandbox/colloquia/
Monday, 3 September 2012
Featured Website
This weeks featured website has a very large collection of different texts all available from the Colloquia collection
University of Kentucky - Institute for Latin Studies Colloquia Collection
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