Tag: Latin

Reflections on the Banks of the Tiber

Like so many significant events throughout the history of the Western world, my humanities moment begins on the banks of the River Tiber in Rome. I had just…

The Golden Line

I started learning Latin in seventh grade because I decided it was the most difficult course I could take, and I had something to prove. I was an…

Meeting the Last Man on Planet Earth Who Could Speak Latin

A single question changed the course of my life. When I first began studying Latin in 1996, it was a dead language, no doubt about it. It was…