In this episode, I chat with Alessandro (@polisisti on X/Twitter) about our respective experiences learning Latin (and in his case ancient Greek).

The Ranieri-Roberts approach to learning ancient Greek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vwb1wVzPec

We need to talk about Latinitas: https://foundinantiquity.com/2024/04/15/we-need-to-talk-about-latinitas/

Legentibus: https://legentibus.com/

Intermediate-level Greek texts:

There is a good series called "Reading Greek" published by the Joint Association of Classics Teachers. An example volume is "The Intellectual Revolution: Selections from Euripides, Thucydides and Plato".

Intermediate-level Latin texts:

The reader Alessandro used in his second-year course was the "Oxford Latin Reader", edited by Maurice Balme and James Morwood. However, Alessandro prefers "Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature", edited by Richard A. LaFleur.

Carmina Burana is a collection of poems that is fairly easy and very fun to read.

An anthology of medieval Latin texts that Alessandro greatly enjoys is "Reading Medieval Latin" by Keith Sidwell. Many of these selections are of intermediate difficulty (a few are very hard).

The prose works of Seneca bridge the gap between intermediate and advanced.

Dictionaries and grammars:

Alessandro's favourite Latin dictionary: The "Oxford Latin Dictionary"

For medieval Latin: "Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources"

* the DMLBS is freely searchable at https://logeion.uchicago.edu

For advanced Latin grammar: "A New Latin Syntax" by E.C. Woodcock

Alessandro's favourite Greek dictionary: The "Cambridge Greek Lexicon"

"The Greek Particles" by John Dewar Denniston is the book that's very helpful for reading Plato.