Christian Conversion – how Christ went from Roman Victim to Roman God 13. In the film, Winona Ryder plays Susanna Kaysen, a young woman just graduated from high school who checks into a psychiatric hospital at the behest of her parents following a suicide attempt, though she initially denies her intent was to kill herself. Following additional Indian attacks, the Mountie is saved from the stake by the young girl's intervention with the Indian chief. The Divine Family – Religion and the Gods 12. Based on the 1936 novel Susannah of the Mounties by Muriel Denison, the film is about an orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West who is taken in by a Mountie and his girlfriend. Greg Gransden will accompany us to make a documentary film of the. Plebs and Patricians – the Roman Class System 10. Waddington is the tallest mountain entirely within British Columbia in the remote. True Romance – the Great Latin Love Poets 5. Sex in Rome and the Rudest Poem in Latin 4. Ruling Britannia – Roman Britain, from Londinium's first bankers to freezing legionaries on Hadrian's Wall 3. Writing on the Wall – Latin graffiti, from Pompeii's brothel to Herculaneum's tavernas 2.
Introduction A note on translation A timeline of Julius Caesar and the Roman Emperors 1. Here they are in touch with two classical scholars of distinction who have the common touch and can help make Latin accessible to all, not to mention fun! Who crossed the Rubicon and why, for example? At a time of great political and social turbulence, more and more people are turning back to ancient wisdom as a guide to life.
The background to each quotation is explained so that the context is fully understood. Each chapter starts with a quotation and is lightly sprinkled with many more, with accompanying English translations and entertaining cartoons and illustrations dotted throughout.
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The chapters of this book include: Latin for Gardeners, the Great Latin Love Poets, Cicero on How to Grow Old Gracefully and Seneca's Stoic Guide to Life. Many of these phrases are humorous, but they are also a rich source of wisdom: the wisdom of the ancients. And often these phrases are also used in English translation: 'The die is cast' 'crossing the Rubicon' 'Rome was not built in a day'. In the heart of the Great Northern Catskills a place called Casa Susanna once existed as a refuge for the exploration of identity. 'Carpe diem' 'Stet' 'Memento mori' 'Et tu Brute' – examples would fill a book. There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.
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