Great Courses

This collection features standout university lecture series, open courseware, and specialized digital audiovisual courses in Latin language, Roman literature, rhetoric, and manuscript culture. These resources build deep intuition for textual criticism, active Latinity, and the material and historical worlds in which Latin was composed and transmitted.

• Active Latin, Pedagogy, and Spoken Latinity
• Roman Literature, Epic, and Poetic Tradition
• Roman Political Rhetoric, Law, and Material Culture
• Late Antiquity, Medieval Latinity, and Manuscript Culture

Active Latin, Pedagogy, and Spoken Latinity

• LatinTutorial: Advanced Syntax, Scansion, and Prose Composition (YouTube / Ben Johnson)
• ScorpioMartianus: Spoken Latin and Classical Literature (YouTube / Luke Ranieri)
• Latinitium: Spoken Latin and Language Acquisition (YouTube / Daniel Pettersson)
• Paideia Media: Spoken Latin Lectures and Conferences (YouTube / The Paideia Institute)

Roman Literature, Epic, and Poetic Tradition

• Introducing Virgil's Aeneid (The Open University / OpenLearn)
• Continuing Classical Latin (The Open University / OpenLearn)
• Greek and Roman Mythology (University of Pennsylvania / Coursera / Peter Struck)
• Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries (Gresham College / Edith Hall)

Roman Political Rhetoric, Law, and Material Culture

• Cicero In and On Political Crises (Gresham College / Melissa Lane)
• The Death of the Roman Republic? (Gresham College / Melissa Lane)
• Roman Architecture (Open Yale Courses / Diana E. E. Kleiner, HSAR 252)
• Roman Art and Archaeology (University of Arizona / Coursera / David Soren)
• History of Roman Law (University of Naples Federico II / edX / FedericaX) - search "History of Roman Law" on edX

Late Antiquity, Medieval Latinity, and Manuscript Culture

• The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 (Open Yale Courses / Paul Freedman, HIST 210)
• English and Latin Paleography: An Introductory Workshop (USC Libraries / Kathryn Brunet)
• The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript (Harvard University / HarvardX / Jeffrey Hamburger) - search "The Book: Making and Meaning in the Medieval Manuscript" on edX
• The Book: The Medieval Book of Hours: Art and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Harvard University / HarvardX / Jeffrey Hamburger) - search "The Book: The Medieval Book of Hours" on edX