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Ezekiel and the Biblical Zombies 💀 | Tiered Story

A Tiered text of Biblical zombies! The most famous vision of the prophet Ezekiel is his vision of the dry bones coming to life. It is the subject of the 'Dem Bones' song, and a story of hope. In most English translations this is known as the Valley of the Dry Bones, but in the Vulgate the word used here is 'campus', an open plain. The story here is told in two levels - a simplified Latin version and the original Vulgate text, both with illustrations. Small error - Israēlītēs should be Isrāēlītae (masc. pl. 1st declension noun). This is fixed in the downloadable slides. Also I pronounced 37th as "*trecensimum septimum" but it should be "tricensimum septimum". On the punctuation of verse 14 - "et sciētis quia ego Dominus [.] locūtus sum, et fēcī" could be interpreted in two ways, and I kept going back and forth between them while working on this project. In the end I settled on "And you will know that I am the Lord. I have spoken and I have done it." which mirrors verse 13 "Et sciētis quia ego Dominus" "and you shall know that I am the Lord". But the Douay-Rheims translation punctuates it the other way: "and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken, and done it". Both ways make sense with the Latin text. Remember you can turn captions on or off using the CC icon and the gear icon! 📚 The pdfs of these slides and all my other illustrated stories are available as digital downloads to my patrons on Patreon. Normally the illustrated slides would be available to Sestertius Tier or higher (or available to purchase as a collection) but I make all scripture-related resources available to the public for free. The slides from this story can be accessed at this link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/illustrated-and-119458137 💘🦌 The Lover's Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 is available for free in pdf and epub format for everyone who subscribes to my Latin email newsletter! Sign up here: https://foundinantiquity.com/theloverscurse/ 🦚 If you'd like to support the creation of more Latin and Ancient Greek content (with target language subtitles!), consider supporting my work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foundinantiquity 👕 I also have a merch shop! https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/user/found+in+antiquity/

2491 views • Mar 3, 2025

We need to talk about Latinitas.

We need to be able to critically discuss Latinitas in the context of Latin teaching, including in CI Latin books and self-published novellas. Speech rules banning public criticism of novellas cause greater tension and shame surrounding these issues without solving the underlying causes. A healthy community needs to be willing to hear both praise and criticism, which are both part of genuine communication. The pressure to keep telling teachers to publish more novellas for the good of CI has encouraged the proliferation of unquestioned self-publishing strategies instead of giving our community the resources and processes needed to refine and adapt our projects to be more useful outside of the teacher's own classroom. You can read the full essay here in text format: https://foundinantiquity.com/2024/04/15/we-need-to-talk-about-latinitas/ 💘🦌 The Lover's Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 is available for free in pdf and epub format for everyone who subscribes to my Latin email newsletter! Sign up here: https://foundinantiquity.com/theloverscurse/ 🦚 If you'd like to support the creation of more Latin and Ancient Greek content (with target language subtitles!), consider supporting my work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foundinantiquity 👕 I also have a merch shop! https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/user/found+in+antiquity/ Timestamps: 0:00:00 Coming up 0:00:14 Project updates 0:01:05 Context of this essay 0:02:00 Introduction and short definition of Latinitas 0:03:35 Incident of silencing novella criticism 0:08:54 What I will and will not refute 0:12:15 LNDb arguments used to silence criticism of novellas 0:15:20 Re: 1. What they wrote works for them 0:16:55 Re: 2. Criticism is unsolicited, embarassing, degrading 0:34:08 Re: 3. Criticism may be wrong 0:36:45 Re: 4. Latinitas is an unknowable construct 0:43:41 Re: 5. Publish your own books instead of criticising 0:49:06 Negative consequences of silencing novella criticism 0:52:53 Teachers burdened with responsibility for the CI movement's success 0:56:10 Answering possible objections to this essay 1:01:28 Final thoughts

5190 views • Jul 10, 2024

Happy news🤰Nūntius magnī gaudiī

I'm very happy to say that I'm pregnant with my first child. In this video I talk in Latin about how my pregnancy is going so far. I am looking forward to this exciting and exhausting time of being a parent, filled with joy and many changes. Let me know your best parenting tips in the comments. Remember you can turn captions on or off and select Latin or English using the CC icon and the gear icon! Here were some key vocabulary I used in talking about pregnancy in Latin: gravida (adj.) = pregnant praegnāns (adj.)= pregnant partus, -ūs (m.) = the word for a child in the womb of any gestational age, i.e. fetus, embryo; offspring in general, child; the act of giving birth, the event of birth partum ferre/gerere = to be pregnant, carry a child in the womb avidē exspectāre = to eagerly await, be excited for the arrival of something 💘🦌 The Lover's Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 is available for free in pdf and epub format for everyone who subscribes to my Latin email newsletter! Sign up here: https://foundinantiquity.com/theloverscurse/ 🦚 If you'd like to support the creation of more Latin and Ancient Greek content (with target language subtitles!), consider supporting my work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foundinantiquity 👕 I also have a merch shop! https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/user/found+in+antiquity/

3442 views • Apr 3, 2024

Semper Solus | Polyphemus having guests for dinner

Polyphemus is happy to live alone. One day he gets some unexpected visitors from Greece, and has them for dinner. This story is based (somewhat loosely) on the version told in Homer's Odyssey, but with an additional detail involving Achaemenides (which was included in Vergil's version in the Aeneid). Remember you can turn captions on or off and select Latin or English using the CC icon and the gear icon! 📚 The pdfs of these slides and all my other illustrated stories are available as digital downloads to my patrons on Patreon at Sestertius Tier and higher. Many thanks to all my supporters on Patreon for helping me bring more Latin Comprehensible Input content to YouTube. The slides from this story can be accessed at this link if you have the tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/illustrated-91382997 💘🦌 The Lover's Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 is available for free in pdf and epub format for everyone who subscribes to my Latin email newsletter! Sign up here: https://foundinantiquity.com/theloverscurse/ 🦚 If you'd like to support the creation of more Latin and Ancient Greek content (with target language subtitles!), consider supporting my work at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foundinantiquity 👕 I also have a merch shop! https://www.spreadshirt.com/shop/user/found+in+antiquity/

7609 views • Oct 22, 2023

Aeneid 4 Tiered Reader LAUNCH PARTY! 🦌💘The Lover's Curse

Partly in English, partly in Latin, we'll celebrate the launch of my intermediate Latin book 'The Lover's Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4' with songs, Latin guessing games, news, and a cover reveal for the next planned tiered reader of Aeneid 6. Get hyped for Latin tiered reader content making the world of poetry more accessible to learner Latinists! In this party, I'll be sending a free digital copy of the book to everyone who has signed up to my Latin email newsletter at this link: https://foundinantiquity.com/theloverscurse/

2154 views • Sep 24, 2023

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