From the Book - First Picador paperback edition.
Ode to a useless language
Understanding Latin with Catullus
Cicero's star-studded sky
Caesar, or the measures of reality
The power of clarity : Lucretius
The meaning of sex : back to Catullus
Syntactic goose bumps, or Virgil's shivering sentences
The master of diffraction, Tacitus, and Sallust's brevity
Ovid, of the end of identity
Breathing and creaking : reflection of Livy
The work umbra : Virgil's Eclogues
Seneca, or the serenity of saying it all
Deviances and dental care : Apuleius and Petronius
Brambles, chasms, and memories : Augustine's linguistic reformation
The duty of self-improvement : Juvenal and satire
The loneliness of love : Propertius
More on happiness : the lesson of Horace
Conclusion and exhortation : study Latin!
