Camillus, Columbus Rōmānus, Cap.1: Ōvum et Columba (Patreon)

Camillus, Columbus Rōmānus, Cap.1: Ōvum et Columba

This is the first draft of a new introductory Latin reader called CAMILLVS · COLVMBVS ROMANVS, a story about the odyssey of a pigeon in Ancient Rome whose exploits carry him from the Eternal City to the edges of the Empire. This book will serve as an introduction to the Latin language as well as Roman history, culture, literature, and society. 🎙 The audio has been made available for download to all my Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/posts/123604218 📕 The PDF, exercises, additional audio, and grammatical notes are available to Patreon supporters at a higher tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/123618459 🕊️ Irene La Preziosa ( @irenelapreziosa ) and I lend our voices to this chapter. The approach of CAMILLVS is much inspired by Colin Gorrie's Ōsweald Bera: An Introduction to Old English ( https://youtu.be/1IFyYozfM38 ), where the focus is put on the story most of all, and the vocabulary and grammar used is for the purpose of telling that story. This approach seems to be more effective at imparting key vocabulary and grammar into long-term memory than traditional readers that build a story around a grammatical progression and chapters on thematic vocabulary. Yet more credit is due to my colleague Logan Kilpelä, who, in an as-yet unpublished work, has pioneered not only a story-focused approach, but also the use of extensive images and deictic boxes. For this reason, I call this approach Kilpelätion (as explained in the introduction to my Kilpeläted edition of Thrasymachus called Thrasymachus' Catabasis: https://bit.ly/thrasymachuscatabasis ). Further thanks are due to Raphael Turrigiano, who in collaboration with Logan Kilpelä has offered great insights to the paedagogical utility of these techniques, and whose guidance has as a result been of great value in the present work. This video presents a draft of the reader, which will eventually be made available as a printed book. The character of Camillus is inspired by a real-life pigeon that Irene La Preziosa and I rescued in Rome whom we named Camillo, recounted here in Ancient Greek on my podcast Legio XIII: https://youtu.be/7VwgLu1WtOM 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🤠 Take my course LATIN UNCOVERED on StoryLearning, including my original Latin adventure novella "Vir Petasātus" https://learn.storylearning.com/lu-promo?affiliate_id=3932873 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54058196 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com Join the channel to support it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRllohBcHec7YUgW6HfltLA/join 🌅 ScorpioMartianus apud Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 🎙 Hundres of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com