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

• The complete first book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
• The complete first book of the Annales by Tacitus.
• Carmen 42, by Catullus.
• 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 observe vowel quantity, and at least make an effort not to have too strong an accent.

• 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, readings 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 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
• Radio Bremen
• 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.
• YouTube hosts a large number of recordings made by various people. This is just some of them:
  1. Aeneid - Introduction, read by HoratiusFlaccus.
  2. Aeneid VI - Virgilius (Virgil) - part 1, read by HoratiusFlaccus.
  3. Aeneid VI - Virgilius (Virgil) - part 2, read by HoratiusFlaccus.
  4. Horace Ode 2-17 (to friendship), read by HoratiusFlaccus.
  5. Latin - On the Gallic War - Germans, read by MaBu888.
  6. LATIN POETRY Catullus 101 (Elegiac couplet), read by jc625.
  7. Latin poetry: Martial 1 109 (Hendecasyllabic verse), read by jc625.