How Catiline was defeated according to Sallust

Roman his­to­ri­an and politi­cian, Gaius Sal­lustius Cris­pus, to many known as Sal­lust, wrote Bel­lum Catili­nae or the War of Cati­line around 42 B.C. as a chron­i­cle of the con­spir­a­cy to over­throw the gov­ern­ment by the aris­to­crat Lucius Sergius Catili­na...

The Day the Music Died: Alcibiades and the Tibiae

One of his­to­ry’s most ardent col­lec­tors of curi­ous notes, inter­est­ing texts, and odd pas­sages, Aulus Gel­lius (c. 125–180 A.D.), relates quite an amus­ing sto­ry in his Noctes Atti­cae about the famous gen­er­al Alcibiades.  Alcib­i­ades (c. 450–404 B.C.)...

The Deed of Caedicius and the 400 | Latin Retold

Intro­duc­tion Three hun­dred. That was the num­ber of men who king Leonidas brought into bat­tle at Ther­mopy­lae. These Spar­tans have made peo­ple gasp at their brav­ery and audac­i­ty for cen­turies. How­ev­er, they were not the only ones with great courage...

The 200th Member Video (in Latin)!

Every week we pub­lish new videos in Latin on our mem­ber­ship site – every­thing from week­ly mes­sages where Daniel talks a lit­tle bit about the past week or about some Latin tip he wants to share, to Video lessons explain­ing a text or an expression. Now we...