A Library Across the Centuries (Auctores Romani)
The reading timeline runs from Plautus and Terence through Cicero, Caesar, Vergil, Livy, Seneca, Augustine, and Boethius. It shows Latin changing from the language of the Republic into a language of Christian theology and medieval learning.
Grades 7–8. Places and stories.
How it connects
Modern drama, rhetoric, history, poetry, philosophy, and theology still converse with these authors. Augustine and Boethius show Christians receiving classical learning while correcting it in the light of revealed truth.
Latin words that go with this card: poeta, orator, litterae, liber, scientia.