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With its user-friendly, non-academic style this book is of interest to anyone learning Latin. Looking at topics ranging from Ancient Roman curses found at Bath and a birthday invitation from Hadrian's Wall to fascinating extracts from post-Renaissance Latinists like Descartes, Annus Mirabilis picks up where Annus Horribilis left off. It explores the joys of Latin poetry via Medieval lyrics and verse epitaphs. Letters reveal the gossip of emperors and the passion of lovers. Other passages show that Latin was the language in which some of the most important scientific and philosophical ideas of the modern age were expressed. Featuring many previously unpublished texts, all accompanied by extensive notes, full English translations and an appendix of useful grammar, if anyone asks 'Why do you want to learn Latin?', Annus Mirabilis provides the answer: because Latin is so much more than just the dead language of a fallen empire.
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This is the 'sequel' to ANNUS HORRIBILIS: LATIN FOR EVERYDAY LIFE -- but it is not just more of the same. Several texts featured in ANNUS MIRABILIS have not been published before, to my knowledge. Many others are rarely studied by Classics students -- including several examples from Neo-Latin authors -- making this both an ideal follow-on to the original book as wel as companion book for Latin students pursuing more traditional Latin courses.
Where else will you get to read Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne's Latin letters, alongside those of Cicero and Augustus!
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