Celeris Pede: A Latin Novella

Atalanta rages against the confinement she had never experienced as a young heroine who had traveled with the Argonauts. Her father who had abandoned her at birth has taken her from the life of freedom and adventure to a life as a princess. He insists that she must marry. In her fierce anger and a desperate attempt to control her fate, she agrees to compete in a footrace that will change her life. Hippomenes arrives in Calydon to help his old friend Meleager hunt the Calydonian boar that has rampaged through the country killing indiscriminately. He marvels when Jason and the Argonauts also arrive to join the hunt, but then the whispers start because Atalanta has come with them. Hippomenes’ loyalties shift as his friend Meleager’s behavior deteriorates and he endeavors to stay true to his core values. Told in alternating perspectives and different timelines, Hippomenes and Atalanta find themselves bending to and from each other as their stories collide. This is an advanced Latin novella with 807 total vocabulary words. Of those 807 words, 34 are glossed words that do not appear frequently, 25 are proper nouns like names of people or cities, and 224 additional words that are clear cognates. To read this novella, readers need to have a rich, deep understanding of 525 words. —- ISBN: 9798865818915