What's next? pt. 2

Truong-Ngoc, C. (21 JAN 2014). Humanist Library of Sélestat. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Introducing the Library

I mentioned in the last post that our next major read here would be Aubrey Stewart’s 1912 translation of select works by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. By now all subscribers should’ve received their annotated webliography of Seneca resources. (If you’re not an email subscriber, here’s your incentive to sign up FOR FREE ;)

I didn’t share, however, that Justin’s Journal will begin featuring a “Library” page. This will be a place to record (and link to) the books we work through here.

Podcast, anyone?

I’ve been encouraged to get into podcasting for awhile, yet never took the chance because I have zero experience with it. However, given that the whole shtick of Justin’s Journal is self-improvement, that excuse won’t really wash here. I’m going to start by recording “occasional” podcast episodes using the tools here in Substack. These episodes will only be available to paying subscribers, however. If I work out the process sufficiently to produce a real quality podcast, I hope it’ll motivate others to become paid subscribers.

Learn Latin with Me!

I’ve wanted to learn Latin for quite some time, and simply never got around to it. I made an abortive attempt a few years ago with Wheelock’s Latin Grammar, but it just didn’t work.

Now, inspired by both the Great Books and Inspired my eldest son, who’s discovered his own interest in Latin thanks to DuoLingo, I signed up and have started working on the language as well.

I invite you to join us on this journey as well. In Seneca, we’re reading one of the first Roman philosophers who primarily wrote in Latin, so this is the perfect time to start! If you use DuoLingo, and would like to work together on some of their FriendQuests, I’d love to “friend” you through the app. My username there is JustinMLillard.

Aside from DuoLingo, I’m looking at some other Latin-learning resources and will share them as appropriate. Finally, I’m thinking of issuing a weekly translation challenge for those interested. Let me know in the comments if you’d like to be part of that!