For forty years, American priest and friar Reginald Foster, O.C.C., worked in the Latin Letters office of the Roman Curia's Secretary of State in Vatican City. As Latinist of four popes, he soon emerged as an internationally recognised authority on the Latin language - some have said, the internationally recognised authority, consulted by scholars, priests, and laymen worldwide. In 1986, he began teaching an annual summer Latin course that attracted advanced students and professors from around the globe. This volume gathers contributions from some of his many students in honor of his enduring influence and achievements. Its chapters explore a wide range of linguistic and literary evidence from antiquity to the present day in a variety of theoretical perspectives. If the motivation for putting together this collection has been to reflect (and reflect upon) Foster's influences on Latin scholarship and pedagogy, its title alludes - via the medieval folk etymology of the word "labyrinthus" ("quasi labor intus") - to its theme: ambiguity in Latin literature.

Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature

Biographies & Memoirs

Fontaine, Michael

Short, William M.

McNamara, Charles

Professionals & Academics

Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, Inc.

Emily Wilson, the noted translator of The Odyssey, has written that “A.M. Juster’s translation of Milton’s elegiac verse, rendered in elegant English elegiacs, provides Latin-less readers with a readable, accurate, metrical rendering of this important and undeservedly neglected set of poems, accompanied by useful notes and introduction. By writing these poems, the young John Milton defined himself as a master of Latin verse form, but also explored love, friendship, poetics, obedience and revolution, in ways that are related to, but fascinatingly different from, his later English-language poetry. Juster makes the young Milton live again, in a fresh and contemporary idiom.”Juster is also the translator of Horace’s Satires (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008), Tibullus’ Elegies (Oxford University Press 2012), Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles (University of Toronto Press 2016) and The Elegies of Maximianus (University of Pennsylvania Press 2018). His poems and translations have won many top awards, and appeared in such journals as Poetry, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Arion and Rattle.Juster is donating all royalties from this book to the Reginald Foster Scholarship Fund. The fund was established to honor Fr. Reginald Foster, the first American to serve as Papal Latin Secretary, and the world's most enthusiastic promoter of the Latin language. The fund supports scholarships for students who wish to participate in Latin programs with Fr. Foster or the Paideia Institute.

John Milton's the Book of Elegies: Translated by A. M. Juster

Literature & Fiction

Juster, A. M.

Poetry

Ilias Kolokouris's Modern Greek for Classicists is a reading companion for those who have already had some exposure to the Greek world - be it a solid foundation in Ancient Greek, some knowledge of the Greek alphabet acquired while studying Latin, or even just a few set phrases memorized to communicate with locals during a trip to Greece. This book aims to build upon such foundations to expand access to the fascinating culture, literature, and society of Modern Greece. Modern Greek for Classicists is structured as a graded reader, with fictional narratives in Modern Greek, followed by comprehension and discussion questions designed to facilitate language acquisition. Each dialogue has a limited set of vocabulary, and the grammar moves from the more simple to the more complex. Animated videos accompany and expand upon the main story. How does this book teach Modern Greek? Incremental repetition and progressively more complex readings play a key role in our pedagogical approach. We believe that, when highly motivated learners are given confidence in their abilities and an environment with low levels of anxiety, they will be better equipped for success in second language acquisition. This is why we want each lesson to be a playful, enjoyable activity. Most importantly, this book is designed to feel yours. You can read it at your own pace, whenever and wherever you prefer, with whomever you wish. As you go on to use this book, you will notice that learning Modern Greek is both feasible and inspiring.

Modern Greek for Classicists

Education & Teaching

Kolokouris, Ilias

Higher & Continuing Education

"Greco Moderno per Antichisti" di Ilias Kolokouris un libro di testo per l'apprendimento del greco moderno, pensato per coloro che hanno gi avuto una certa esposizione al mondo greco - sia che quest'ultima consista nell'avere una solida base di greco antico, una certa padronanza dell'alfabeto greco acquisita durante lo studio del latino, o anche soltanto una conoscenza mnemonica di alcune frasi prefissate per comunicare con la gente del posto durante un viaggio estivo in Grecia.

Greco Moderno per Antichisti (Italian Edition)

Product Description "Americana Latine: Latin Moments in the History of the United States" presents over one hundred Latin texts written for the most part in or about lands that would become, or currently are, part of the United States. Preceding each Latin text is an English introduction, and each text is annotated with historical and at times linguistic detail. These texts range chronologically from Adam of Bremen's brief notice of Vinland (11th century) to an excerpt from an address delivered at the Second Vatican Council. Numerous genres are represented, including personal and professional letters, speeches, diaries, inscriptions, treatises, as well as poetry. An effort was made to avoid Latin texts that were composed primarily for school exercises and instead to showcase some of the ways in which Latin has been employed for the purposes of everyday communication. Readers of Americana Latine will gain new perspectives on well-known episodes from American history, but they will also be introduced to lesser known persons and events. An important aim of this volume has been to highlight Latin texts that were composed outside of New England or the mid-Atlantic states; indeed, every region of the country is well represented. Americana Latine makes a valuable contribution to the rapidly expanding field of Neo-Latin studies, and it demonstrates the value of Latin for the study of American history. About the Author Andrew Dinan is an Associate Professor of Classics & Early Christian Literature at Ave Maria University, where he has taught since 2004. He began his study of Latin in the public schools of northern Virginia and his study of Greek at the University of Notre Dame, from where he graduated with a degree in Liberal Studies. After earning a graduate degree in Theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (Washington), he did graduate work (MA and PhD) in Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America. His publications, in the fields of patristics, liturgical Latin, and Neo-Latin studies, have appeared in Humanistica Lovaniensia, The Classical Journal, Vigiliae Christianae, Journal of Early Christian Studies, American Catholic Studies, Antiphon, and others. His particular interest is the role of Latin within American history and culture. He is currently working on an annotated transcription and translation of the Latin correspondence between the nineteenth-century American prelates Francis Patrick Kenrick (1797-1863) and his brother Peter Richard Kenrick (1806-1896).

Americana Latine: Latin Moments in the History of The United States

History

Dinan, Andrew

Americas

This introductory Homer reader, entirely in Ancient Greek, sets the student of the 21st century along the same paths of learning by which Homer was understood in the ancient world. Encountering and understanding the Iliad in its original language is to experience it in its most unmediated and authentic form. The commentary presented here is a goldmine of information for any student, offering precious insight into a world of ancient scholarship as colorful and as variegated as Homer's verses themselves. The titanic expenditure of ink, time, and painstaking effort by the scholiasts was not one made lightly: they believed that the Iliad had something urgent and immediate to say in their lives, and found within its verses wisdom on language, the divine, the human condition, and so much more. It is the purpose of this book to allow students today to do just the same.

Dolphin Editions: Homer, Iliad 1

Institute, Paideia

History & Criticism

An annotated and illustrated monolingual edition of Caesar's De Bello Gallico for AP Latin students and teachers

Dolphin Editions: Caesar, The Gallic War

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