One of the most requested books is coming to Legentibus

In 2017, we repub­lished a book called Ad Alpes - A Tale of Roman Life. It is a sort of Latin nov­el from the 1920’s writ­ten at an upper inter­me­di­ate / advanced lev­el Latin. It con­sists of a frame sto­ry that fol­lows a Roman fam­i­ly on their way long jour­ney. Dur­ing the trip, they tell each oth­er sto­ries and vis­it famous places. These sto­ries are from all over Roman lit­er­a­ture but they are vowen into the nar­ra­tive, with some adap­ta­tions, in such a way that you don’t real­ly realise you’re read­ing pas­sages from Sue­to­nius, Tac­i­tus, Nepos, Livy, Pliny, and many oth­ers.

It is, to my mind, an extra­or­di­nary book that is worth read­ing and lis­ten­ing to again and again. The Latin used in it is excel­lent and the notes explain­ing it ample.

This has been our most request­ed book since launch­ing Leg­en­tibus. I made an audio­book of it back when we pub­lished the print book years ago but we have not pub­lished it here on Leg­en­tibus. Why? It’s been many years since I orig­i­nal­ly record­ed it, almost ten, actu­al­ly and I am no longer sat­is­fied with that record­ing.

This is why I am re-record­ing it for our Leg­en­tibus ver­sion.

I think it’s turn­ing out great. The book is an absolute plea­sure to read and lis­ten, even after count­less times.

The record­ing process has been fun but gru­el­ing, I’ll tell you more about that in a lat­er post.

The book is very long so we will release it in three install­ments. The first vol­ume con­tain­ing chap­ters 1–12 is almost done. The run­time of it will be about 2 hours and 10 min­utes. It just needs some light edit­ing.