Celeris Pede retells two major events in Atalanta’s life: the Calydonian boar hunt and the footrace with Hippomenes. Told in alternating perspectives between Atalanta and Hippomenes and different timelines, Hippomenes and Atalanta find themselves bending to and from each other as their stories collide.
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Sample for Celeris Pede: A Latin Novella
Celeris Pede is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Celeris Pede contains the complete first chapter to the novella. Celeris Pede is an advanced novella with a complex structure as it alternates between Atalanta and Hippomenes’ stories, stories which occur in different timelines. The first chapter is from Atalanta’s perspective and occurs during the timeline of the footrace.
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Atalanta Heroina: A Latin Novella
Atlanta Heroina: A Latin Novella retells the life of the extraordinary heroine who was abandoned at birth and became renowned for her prowess and speed. Atalanta faces rejection from the moment of her birth. She manages, however, to win the favor of the goddess Diana, and she travels the world with Jason and the Argonauts, winning prizes and fighting alongside renowned heroes. She is a heroine. What happens, then, when her father hears all the tales of her heroic deeds and decides that it’s time to reclaim his lost daughter?”
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Sample for Atalanta Heroina
Atalanta Heroina is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Atalanta Heroina contains the first chapter to the novella. Atalanta Heroina is a novella retelling the life of an extraordinary heroine who was abandoned at birth to become renowned for her prowess and speed.
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Catullus 2B: An Easier Prose Story
Most scholars have separated Catullus 2 and Catullus 2B for reasons that are now, to me anyway, clear having (finally) read both poems. If joined, the last three lines are a weird ending to a poem addressed to a sparrow. They just don’t make sense together. These three lines also seem a little weird floating out in isolation from anything else: I want more backstory, Catullus! What exactly is so pleasing to you, darn it?!
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Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum
In Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum, Maria Mitchell, the first female professor of astronomy in the United States, narrates and describes the solar system and then tells a short myth about the Roman god or goddess about who is the planet’s namesake. Each page alternates a scientific explanation with a myth.
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Astronomia: Index Verborum
Although Bombax Press typically includes both indices and dictionaries for Latin novellas, Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum differs from this precedent. Astronomia contains an Index Verborum, which contains all the words used in the novella. It lists all verb forms separately, but it groups together the nouns and adjectival forms of the word. The Index Verborum provides readers with the opportunity to look up any word form that is unfamiliar.
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Sample for Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum
Astronomia: Fabula Planetarum is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Astronomia contains a two-page spread from the novella, covering non-fiction text about the planet Jupiter and a short myth covering the birth of Minerva. For more information about the novella, including all the myths covered in the novella, visit this post.
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Virgo Ardens: A Latin Novella
In Virgo Ardens: A Latin Novella, Iphis loves caring for her family farm on Crete. She loves the smell of the ocean, olives, and grain carried by the wind, and she loves watching lambs race through their fields. Yet, she also feels the burden of her secret—a secret only her mom knows. Before she was born, her father said they could only afford to raise a boy, so her mother lied to protect her. Iphis is stuck between two parents who don’t see her as she is. She isn’t the perfect son to her sick father because she’s a young woman, and she’s certainly not the perfect daughter because she’d…
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Sample for Virgo Ardens
Virgo Ardens is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Virgo Ardens contains the preface to the novella, which takes place before Iphis, the main character, is born. It provides important background information to characters, themes, and events in the story, but it is weighty because it discusses female infanticide through exposure.
