Perpetua was a young African woman who fell in with an obscure religious sect that must have seemed to outsiders like a kind of death-cult. She was arrested around 203 CE along with several other practitioners on unspecified charges. Given the opportunity to renounce the group and walk free, Perpetua chose execution in the arena. Perpetua was a Christian. The Passi?, an account of her death, includes Perpetua's prison diary, in which the already-radicalized woman describes her progressive alienation from her family. Perpetua was a prophet and a leader in her sect, and her narrative describes a series of visions: a ladder rigged with lacerating blades and tearing hooks, the torment of a family member, and a final climactic vision in which she becomes a man and fights hand-to-hand against the devil. Transgressive, radical, and determined to face down a violent death: Perpetua is a formidable figure. This edition aims to enable intermediate-level students of Latin to read the text in its original language. A substantial introduction provides background on the woman, her text, and her times. The Latin text includes a running glossary and grammatical commentary on every page.

The Passion of Perpetua: A Latin Text of the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis with Running Vocabulary and Commentary (The Experrecta Series: Women Latin Authors)

Literature & Fiction

Donato, Mia

Engargiola, Carolyn

Gendreau-Distler, Eli

Hasapis, Elizabeth

Hendrickson, Thomas G.

Nguyen, Jacob

Pant, Siddharth

Podila, Shamika

Riordan, Anna

Thompson, Oliver

Classics

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John Matthews' "Bath: An Adumbration in Rhyme" (1795) is a humorous picture of a typical day in the most fashionable resort town of late Georgian England. For the gouty and the infirm, Bath offered health: its mineral waters, whether bathed in or drunk, were thought to relieve a variety of complaints. For everyone else, there was endless entertainment, from the morning visit to the Pump Room to the famous public balls held four evenings a week. Bath was also the city that Jane Austen knew best, lived in longest, and wrote most about. Every one of her novels at least mentions Bath, and large portions of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are set there. Published in 1795, Matthews' poem captures the town just two years before Austen visited it for the first time. The sights and sounds he describes are the very ones that would have greeted a twenty-one-year-old Austen or a seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland.This edition offers an array of critical resources that use "Bath: An Adumbration in Rhyme" to deepen readers' appreciation of Austen's life and work. The Biographical Essay explores parallels between the lives of John Matthews and Jane Austen. The Contextual Essay introduces readers to the tradition of the "Bath satire," a popular genre in the late eighteenth century that Austen refined and expanded in her two Bath novels. The notes on the text provide not only historical and cultural information, but images of late Georgian Bath and direct connections between the poem and Austen's novels.

Bath: An Adumbration in Rhyme: A Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen (Forgotten Contemporaries of Jane Austen)

Humor & Entertainment

MATTHEWS, JOHN

Humor

In 1451, Isotta Nogarola took up her pen in defense of Eve. For over a thousand years, writers from Tertullian to Boccaccio had used Eve to justify women's inferior status. Nogarola's Defense of Eve (traditionally titled De Pari aut Impari Evae atque Adae Peccato) is a text of fundamental importance for the history of gender in Europe.This edition aims to enable students of Latin to read the text in its original language. A substantial introduction provides background on the woman, her text, and her times. The Latin text includes a running glossary and grammatical commentary on every page.

Isotta Nogarola's Defense of Eve: A Latin Text of the De Pari aut Impari Evae atque Adae Peccato with Running Vocabulary and Commentary (The Experrecta Series: Women Latin Authors)

Boyle, Finn P.

Chapman, Siria A.

Goud, Dhru

Karmali, Siddhant

Leininger, Kennedy

Stern, Justine A.

Wilson-Bivera, Amelie

Literary

Julius Caesar's Gallic War chronicles his nine-year conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) from 58 to 50 BCE. This edition presents the first third of Book VII (Chapters 1-28) with Latin text, same-page vocabulary, and explanatory commentary. Within these pages the Roman imperator describes the rise of the Gallic leader Vercingetorix, the early moves of his peoples' rebellion against Roman domination, and the pivotal struggle between the Gallic coalition and the Roman legions for the Gallic town of Avaricum.

AVARICVM: A Latin Text of Caesar's Gallic War VII 1-28 with Running Vocabulary and Commentary (Caesar: Gallic War Book VII)

Reference

Lee, Fiona

Cross, Katherine

Cross, Elizabeth

Lanier, John

E, Lian

Haarz, Zachary Shepherd

Olmeda, Peter

Peters, Clara Grey

Serôdio, Marilia Chiu

Foreign Language Study & Reference

The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen (Forgotten Contemporaries of Jane Austen)

Combe, William

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