These lectures cover the third set of readings from the text Fabulae Faciles, which is a collection of Latin from easy to intermediate difficulty designed to help students emerge from elementary grammar to a confident reading ability in Latin prose.

The lectures provide opportunity for careful reading and review of essential concepts, while building a solid base of critical vocabulary. You will also get extensive experience with the sound of reconstructed Silver Age Latin through the audio that accompanies the lectures.

Each chapter begins with a review of the previous readings, followed by a careful, literal translation of the Latin to help students see how to internalize the process of moving away from word-by-word reading to a real fluency.

The Fabulae Faciles text is justly famous and has an extensive presence online. What distinguishes this treatment of the texts from others out there is that students get enough help to keep them on tract and to encourage them to “try it on their own” but not so much that thinking becomes optional. It’s meant for serious-minded students who want to achieve a real reading ability and who are willing to do what it takes to get there.

If, however, you find you’re overwhelmed by the passages, you should consider stepping back to an earlier chapter in the book: The Story of Perseus or the Story of Hercules. Lecture series on both are available on Udemy.

On top of all that, students will get a thorough overview of the classic legend of Jason’s voyage with the Argonauts first written down by Apollonius of Rhodes.