Prosecco and pistachio, or, How to read this book -- Back to basis : sex, cases, and word order -- George Orwell, Berks, and wankers, or, How to translate Latin into lovely English -- Diana the huntress and Camilla the virgin queen : Roman gods and goddesses -- Tuscan columns and the historical importance of My fair lady : a quick cultural tour of Rome -- To all the sirs I've loved before : Latin teachers I have known -- The good, the bad, and the other adjectives -- Verbal abuse and the John Cleese guide to Latin -- 1,484 years of purple togas, or, Roman emperors and thier greatest hits -- Thank Jupiter Boadicea lost : Rome's legacy to the western world -- Beware the ides of March : Roman dates, numbers, weights, and measures -- Golden Latin, or, How to write like Cicero -- When in Rome, talk as the Romans talk : a Latin phrasebook -- Latin's tense future.
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