Learn Latin with Latina Laeta B1 - Voices of the Roman World
Follow Latin into the heart of Roman life - clear, rich, and deeply human.
Latina Laeta B1 (Books 11-15) carries the series into its first real maturity. Across more than 118,000 words of continuous Classical Latin, the world widens again: senators speak in crowded atria, actors rehearse behind taverns, merchants quarrel over coins that may not ring true, and families face choices that shape their futures. Latin now speaks in many voices - sharp, humorous, anxious, hopeful - all in readable Silver-Age prose.
You follow Spurius far from Italy to Ephesus, where he serves in his first official post without his father beside him. There he walks straight into real danger: poison, a dead priest, angry merchants, false silver, and a crowd eager to blame ""magicians."" As he questions bankers, opens sealed rooms, and watches judgment carried out, he learns that justice can feel heavy even when it is rightly done.
In Campania, Flaminia faces a different test. Suitors begin to circle, each visit weighing on her composure and her future. Her mother teaches her how a Roman woman must answer, refuse, and guard her own thoughts - lessons that grow sharper when Flaminia sees an unexpected warmth in her mother at Saturnalia and feels her own heart pull in directions she cannot easily name.
Far to the west, Blossius reaches a breaking point in Tingis. His love of the theatre clashes with his father's demands until one final argument pushes him to choose the road. With an acting troupe he learns the real cost of performance: hunger, dust, danger, and the stubborn hope that stories can carry a life forward.
Their paths never cross in B1, yet each takes a step that marks the end of childhood - and the beginning of everything that follows.
Grammar and style rise gently within the stories. Subordinate clauses, participles, and indirect speech appear through use, not drills. Extensive reading makes comprehension settle by familiarity; curiosity carries you onward.
Why learners love Latina Laeta B1
- 118,000+ words of continuous Latin
- Fluency through story, not exercises
- Authentic Classical Latin, modeled on Terence, Petronius, Pliny, Suetonius
- Human realism: work, wit, poverty, dignity
- New Plautine-Terentian comedies
- Smooth progression from A2 into full Classical style
Latina Laeta B1 - where youth steps into the Roman world, and Latin becomes a living language.
