What it is
A Latin reader written as a journey.
Ad Alpes is a Latin reader written as a novel-length journey. The stories along the way are drawn from Roman history, mythology, fable and everyday life, with pirates, disasters, strange customs and comic episodes.
Who it’s for
Readers moving beyond a first course.
It suits readers who have finished a foundational course but are not yet comfortable reading classical authors at length. On LC’s difficulty scale Reader I scores 4.1 (Intermediate).
In the reader
Reader I, chapters I–XII.
The reader has Reader I, the original chapters I–XII, from the 1927 Scott, Foresman printing, collated against a scan of the printed book, about 9,200 words. Display text is macronized.
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