Convention Prep

A set of searchable online Latin dictionaries, perfect for when you need to know when to call a pumpkin a pepo, melopepo, or pepunculus.

A slightly less gruesome grammar than Allen and Greenough.

The standard “scholarly” Latin grammar.

Online declension and conjugation practice. In other words, heaven on earth.

The Magistrula alternative you never knew you needed, but which you do in fact very much need and have needed for quite some time now. Decline Latin nouns, conjugate verbs, work on noun-adjective agreement, do whatever it is you would normally do on a Saturday night. Fill the Cactus-2000-shaped hole in your heart the only way you can—with Cactus 2000.

Latin has given English at least 50 words, and Ancient Greek has given us at least 10. Maybe it’s supposed to be 50% and 10%, I don’t know. But regardless, type in an English word here and be amazed at how frequently you will find an origin in the languages of ancient Greece and Rome.

Geoffrey (pronounced “Joffrey” because I don’t know any better) Steadman has given us several annotated versions of Latin and Greek texts: Homer, Plato, Ovid, Livy, Seneca, Petronius and more. Most notably, he has texts of both A.P. authors: Caesar and Vergil. All are available for free via PDF download. The pages also feature translation sheets and running core vocabulary lists with accompanying Quizlet sets.

Here one can find Latin text, commentary, vocab lists, and translation sheets for the entire De Bello Gallico portion of the A.P. Latin reading list.

A versatile online commentary to Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, with vocabulary, grammar notes, maps, images, videos, and readings.

Web essays accompanying the book The Landmark Caesar. You can download the whole volume as a PDF. Useful resource for practically anything relating to Caesar (and thus handy for A.P. Latin).

Here one can find Latin text, commentary, vocab lists, and translation sheets for the entire Aeneid portion of the A.P. Latin reading list.

A website with a plethora of Aeneid resources: translations, parsings, notes, Homeric correspondences, textual variants, and more.

A versatile online commentary to Vergil’s Aeneid, with vocabulary, grammar notes, maps, images, videos, and readings.

The Latin Library has Latin texts of most important extant Latin writings. It also has Terence.

Alpheios lets you search Latin texts by seven major authors (Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Propertius, and Vergil). Click on a word, and it will tell you its meaning, form, and more. Alpheios got me feeling like Scott Wozniak’s dad: https://youtu.be/CfVT7bCXPiA

NoDictionaries lets you search Latin texts by 49 authors, featuring a slider that lets the user choose how much help to receive.

Perseus is the traditional searchable Latin/English database of Greek and Roman texts. Many options are available, including leaving the website to play Peggle 2.

Learn Latin conjugation, declension, and more while at the same time receiving legitimate sensory assault. He loves to dance, he loves to sing, he does everything. He seems to be a god, or if it’s permitted to say so, to even surpass the gods, who sings and dances up a storm and yet refuses to blink. God bless you for your service to this country, sir.

Watch as a grown man flexes on us all with his seemingly bottomless stash of Lego minifigs. There is also some Latin book larnin’ in there for the rest of us.

He will teach you how to trill your r’s, where Roman numerals came from, and much else besides, including the majority of introductory topics in Latin grammar.

This channel’s creator’s birth name, ‘Craft’, pretty much predestined him to a future of using Minecraft to give lessons in Roman history and culture.

ScorpioMartianus has created a series of spoken Latin videos. Of special note is his series of Latin versions of well-known songs. The Plague has not gotten him down—he most recently released a Latin version of “Oogie Boogie's Song.”

Ancient Greek’s version of Magistrula, fairly bare-bones in comparison, but with Ancient Greek we need to take what we can get. Practice verb conjugation, noun declension, and more. The chapter numbers correspond to Mastronarde’s Greek textbook.

Amy R. Cohen has created a YouTube channel called PlayGreek that features, most notably, a playlist of 100 videos intent on teaching you the intricacies of Ancient (particularly Attic) Greek. This is said playlist.

Searchable database of entries on world mythology and folklore.