A review by jaxcote
Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin by Ann Patty

4.0

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I've been in a Latin/Ancient Rome/ancient history obsessive mode for the past two years, and this exploration of what it is to learn Latin (holy hell, declensions) as a late-life endeavour was beautifully (and challengingly) written. It's not a book to speed through, and you don't really want to. I really enjoyed the surveys of Latin poets too, and the discussion around Catullus and Ovid in particular.