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.

Find it here

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 

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/

Featured Book

Following on from the last featured book, this week is Volume 4 of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

Find it here

Featured Podcast

This week features another podcast by X. Subashi who reads Caesar's De Bello Gallico (Book II) in study speed with 

read at a slow pace, with articulation, word groups, and clauses emphasized.

It can be found on iTunes 

Featured Book

Following on from the last featured book, this week is Volume 3 of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

You can find it here. 

Featured Podcast

This week features two podcasts by X. Subashi who reads Cicero's Pro Caelio

There are two versions, a natural version

capturing the sound, rhythm, and pace of natural speech and performance

The other is a study version

read at a slow pace, with articulation, word groups, and clauses emphasized. 

These should help to get a genuine idea of what the latin should sound like as well as help to study the texts.

Featured Book

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume 1) by Edward Gibbon is a great book for anyone who is interested in the Roman Empire.

It is quite dense, but written very clearly - definitely not an easy read but worth it! 


You can find the book for free on iTunes

Featured Podcast

Dickinson College have a series of six Latin poetry podcasts, available on iTunes.
Here is the list of their podcasts, and the link to get them.

iTunes link

Latin: A Language Far From Dead

Here is a 5 minute video lesson from the University of Arizona, accessible for everyone and available on iTunes U. 


You can find it here. 


It points out (once more) why Latin is a good subject to study. 

Featured Podcast

This weeks featured podcast is another one by the Open University available free on iTunes U from this link. 

The splendidly evocative ruins of ancient Rome have long been a challenge to historians and archaeologists in reconstructing how it looked and functioned. It became the largest city in the western world during the imperial period, so how was the city constructed, and what were the materials used? How was it defended, supplied with food and water, and how were the people housed and entertained, and above all, how did it function? These video tracks use various famous sites such as the Baths of Caracalla and the Pantheon to answer some of these questions.