Alatii Declamationes

Essays on Latin pronunciation

• Some notes on how to read Latin verse, including a couple of audio examples.
• Vowel quantity – where your dictionary is wrong.
• Hidden quantity, by Charles E. Bennett.
• The Quantitative Reading of Latin Poetry, by Charles E. Bennett. (As of yet incomplete.)

Recordings of Latin Literature

These recordings are ordered chronologically, with the newest (and probably better ones) first.

• The complete first Oration against Catiline by Cicero.
• Adeste Hendecasyllabi, Carmen 42 by Catullus.
• The complete first book of the Annales by Tacitus.
• The complete first book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
• About strange animals, from Caesar’s De Bello Gallico, 6.26–28.
• Letter to the family, from Cicero in exile. (Ad Familiares 14.4.)
• A speech by Scipio, from Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, 21.40–41.
• Institutionis Oratoriae Liber Primus. The beginning of Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria.

Copyright 2007, 2008 by Johan Winge.

Links to other sites featuring spoken Latin

Here I have collected links to most of the sites I know of where it is possible to listen to recordings made in a restored classical pronunciation. If you know of a site you think belong here, please alert me! Roughly, the criteria for inclusion in this list have been that the reader(s) should use a reconstructed classical pronunciation, and ideally observe vowel quantity and make an effort not to have too strong an accent. (Also, if the amount of recorded material is significant, I have been more forgiving when it comes to faults in pronunciation; if a site contains only a few seconds of audio, the pronunciation would have to be close to perfect for the site to be included.)

• Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature: readings by Robert P. Sonkowsky, Katharina Volk, et al.
• The Classical Language Instruction Project at Princeton (C.L.I.P.): readings by Katharina Volk, et al.
• Listen to the Aeneid Book IV read by Wilfried Stroh
• Latin Verse-Ictus and Multimodal Entrainment by Robert P. Sonkowsky and Franz Halberg
• Association for Latin Teaching (ARLT) Audio
• Performing Cicero
• Scorpio Martianus, a Latin audio-blog by Luke Amadeus Ranieri.
• Audio? Thread from the forums at Textkit with many examples from the members.
• Viva Voce – Roman Poetry Recited by Vojin Nedeljkovic. Sadly defunct, but most, if not all of the material can be found at Archive.org, as well as at the following link:
• Latinum – The Latin Language Learning Podcast from London. An enormous and continuously growing collection of spoken Latin
• Latin Poetry Podcast
• Nuntii Latini – weekly news in Latin, from Finland.
• Radio Bremen
• Ephemeris – news in Latin, sometimes with recordings
• Harvard Classics Prose and Poetry Recital Page
• Aussprache und Rezitation antiker Texte
• Quintus Vocalis: a short but excellent reading by “Quintus”
• Colloquia Scholastica
• Leo Latinus: excerpts from audio CDs by Nikolaus Gross
• Ovid-project. What did Ovid’s Metamorphoses sound like?
• Readings from Wheelock’s Latin by Mark Robert Miner
• Readings for Latin 202, Latin Poetry by Walt Stevenson
• Latinitas recens vivaque Saravipontana
• Carmina: Readings of Catullus
• Colloquia Latina spectate et audite! From the University of Kentucky
• Recitationes Latinae – Magistra Bush recites Latin poetry in meter
• Oxford Latin Course Book 1 read by Professor Daniel B. Levine
• Nunc Loquamur – recordings of scripted, modern conversations
• Pyrrha’s Roman Pages – Latin students enjoy speaking Latin (and Classical Greek)
• Projekt ’Performance’ – Aussprache und Rezitation antiker Texte
• Seneca’s Letters, Book I
• Readings by Gareth Morgan
• YouTube hosts a large number of recordings made by various people. This is just some of them:
  1. Latin - On the Gallic War - Germans, read by MaBu888
  2. LATIN POETRY Catullus 101 (Elegiac couplet), read by jc625
  3. Latin poetry: Martial 1 109 (Hendecasyllabic verse), read by jc625
  4. Valahfridus (Wilfried) Stroh singing a melody of Jan Novak
  5. Nuntii Latini Italici 15.06.2007 by Iosephus Marcellinus
  6. Prima pellicula mea brevis Latina by philoglot