Books, Literature & Fiction, Foreign Language Fiction, Latin

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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Augustine of Hippo
City of God (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-12-30)

Virgil
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic With his translations of Homer’s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.

Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire.

Saint Augustine of Hippo
Confessions (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

When Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions he was facing, and responding to, a growing spread of asceticism in the Roman world.

Ovid
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-08-03)

Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

Michael Bond
A Bear Called Paddington (BCP Latin Texts) (Latin Edition)
by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (Hardcover)

Paddington Bear at last joins Winnie the Pooh and Peter Rabbit in having his well known and well loved adventures turned into Latin. Who can resist learning the Latin for 'marmalade sandwiches' and 'Darkest Peru'?

Ovid
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics ed.)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-11-27)

This collection of poetry is one of the foremost sources of tales of Roman mythology.

J. K. Rowling
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Latin Edition)
by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books (Hardcover)

Latin translation of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in which Harry Potter, a normal eleven-year-old boy, discovers that he is a wizard. Long ago, Harry's parents were killed in a battle with the evil Lord Voldemort. When we first meet Harry, he is living miserably with his repulsive and non-magical (or Muggle) Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley, and their even more revolting son, Dudley. Following a bizarre but hilarious chain of events, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with an outrageous cast of characters, including super-smart Hermione Granger, vile Draco Malfoy, sinister Professor Snape, and the wise Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Adventures galore ensue.

Julius Caesar
The Conquest of Gaul (Classics)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

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