Ad Alpes (ch. 1–12) coming tomorrow to Legentibus!

Update: Ad Alpes is pub­lished now! You can down­load the book here.

We’re launch­ing the new, Leg­en­tibus ver­sion of Ad alpes — A tale of Roman Life (chap­ters 1–12) tomor­row. It’s one of the best Latin read­ers ever writ­ten.

Brief recap of what it is and who it’s suit­ed for:

Ad Alpes is a nov­el-like Latin read­er for upper inter­me­di­ate-advanced learn­ers. The text con­sists of a frame sto­ry where you fol­low a Roman fam­i­ly along their jour­ney to the Alps. On the way the jour­ney takes them to var­i­ous towns and cities and all along they tell each oth­er sto­ries. These sto­ries are nice­ly woven into the fab­ric of the frame sto­ry so that you don’t real­ize you are read­ing adapt­ed pas­sages from a wealth of Roman authors (e.g., Tac­i­tus, Livy, Plau­tus, Pliny, and many more).

The Latin is rich in vocab­u­lary and syn­tax. There are a wealth of notes that help, but you need to be famil­iar with Latin gram­mar and have a large vocab­u­lary. But, it’s always best to try it and see how it works for you!

It was great fun record­ing it albeit much more dif­fi­cult than I expect­ed because of the num­ber of char­ac­ters. In the record­ing, I have tried to dis­tin­guish the char­ac­ters and give them dis­tinct per­son­al­i­ties and voic­es to make com­pre­hen­sion and ori­en­ta­tion eas­i­er.

I look for­ward to hear­ing how you like this Leg­en­tibus ver­sion of Ad Alpes.

I’ll be start­ing record­ing of the next sequence of chap­ters soon.

Valete!