Here is my cat modeling with the titles on offer. What's great about these is that they are, unlike most textbook readings:
1) actually interesting
2) actually readable by first or second year Latin students
3) starring (some) characters who aren't boys
Well, only two have what you can call female protagonists... and only one (Cloelia, full disclosure it's mine) has ONLY a female protagonist and an equal number of named male & female characters, but it's still better than the Latin textbooks out there. There are more coming out soon from Pomegranate Beginnings with female protagonists, too. We're still working on not white, not hetero representation, but this is a good start. I've got something in mind but it's not my next project. If you have an idea for representing a more diverse Rome in text or whatever medium... DO IT. We need it. Latin is for everyone, not just cisgendered, heterosexual, white English upper-class school boys in good enough shape to row for Oxford when they're done at Eton pip pip cheerio. Let's get our textbooks to reflect that.
You can find them here:
- Cloelia: Puella Romana (free full text PDF also available) by Ellie Arnold (me!)
- Brando Brown Canem Vult by Carol Gaab, translated & adapted into Latin by Justin Slocum Bailey
- Pluto: Fabula Amoris by Miriam Patrick and Rachel Ash
- Itinera Petri: Flammae Ducant by Dr. Robert Patrick
- Iter Mirabile Dennis et Debrae by Dr. Christopher Buczek
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