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Iulianus: The Last of the Romans - Retold for Latin Learners - Volume 1: Gallia (Lingua Latina)
Paperback
Series: The Last of the Romans, Book 1
Foreign Language GeneralAncient Rome
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Latin
A bookish orphan prince, mocked at court as the little Greek, is handed a purple cloak and a broken province - and in four years becomes the most dangerous man in the Roman world. This is the true story of Julian, the last of the Romans, as told by Ammianus Marcellinus, the eyewitness soldier-historian - here, for the first time retold in graded, crystal-clear Latin you can read from page one.
Following the beloved natural method of rberg's Lingua Latina, this is more than a translation and more than a textbook: It is a living story in Latin that explains itself as you read:
- Every new word explained in Latin in the margin - nearly 900 glosses, never in English, so you learn to think in Latin instead of decoding it. This is key.
- IPSA VERBA panels: in every chapter, Ammianus' real, unaltered sentences in elegant purple frames - followed by a friendly Latin walkthrough. You read a genuine Roman historian from your very first week
- 22 chapters of narrative fire: the whispering court of Constantius, the secret of the forbidden gods, the shields struck on knees, the four-chapter battle of Strasbourg - a giant king with a flame-red topknot against a philosopher who never learned how to fear - the Rhine crossed, the ice siege, a Caesar who threw a tax decree on the palace floor, and the envy that followed every victory
- Real history: the enemy is honored, the numbers are Ammianus' own, and nothing is invented - every quoted passage verified against the critical text
- Complete back matter: portraits of every major figure (in easy Latin!) and a full alphabetical index of all vocabulary
Early chapters use short sentences and constant friendly questions (Quid est tīrō? Tīrō est mīles novus!). Step by step the Latin grows richer, and the excerpts from Ammianus grow longer - until, by the finale, you are reading one of Rome's great prose stylists nearly unassisted.
Who this book is for- Self-learners who finished Familia Romana (or any first-year course) and want a real book - and a real story - to conquer next
- Homeschool families seeking a serious, gripping Latin reader with built-in comprehension support
- Teachers who want students reading connected Latin about one of history's most fascinating figures
- Anyone drawn to Julian - philosopher, general, restorer of the old gods - who wants to meet him in the language of his empire
This is Volume One: GALLIA of a trilogy following Julian from student to Caesar to the throne of the world - and to the fate that waits under the Persian sun. Volume Two (the shield-raising at Paris and the march east) and Volume Three (Persia) complete the story.
From the publisher of the Dē Bellō Gallicō and Stratēgēmata graded readers. Ultimus Rōmānōrum tē exspectat.
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