pieces/_template.html, then adding a row to the list below (see BUILD-GUIDE).[Two or three sentences in your own words: what this site is, who it is for, and how each piece works. Suggested shape: a Latin passage, my translation, a short analysis of what the text says, and what it has to do with now.]
Do them in this order. Once a piece is published, change its tablet to a normal row in the section below and put the next piece in its place.
A short first piece. The Latin phrase, its grammar, where the idea comes from, and one recent case.
IIShort passages from a Latin campaign handbook, set beside how campaigns work now.
IIIPart 1 of the revised essay: what Roman thinkers said about punishment when blame is in doubt.
[One line on what this section covers, for example: how Roman advocates, jurists, and judges reasoned, and where that reasoning still shows up.]
[Placeholder: why criminal law asks what a person intended, and where the phrase comes from.]
[Placeholder: how a Roman advocate opened a case, compared with a mock trial opening statement.]
[Placeholder: what Ovid was punished for, the legal form of relegation, and what he could still do.]
[Placeholder: Roman liability for harm done by property and animals, and how courts handle responsibility for automated systems.]
[Placeholder: where the word for plagiarism comes from, and what Romans counted as copying versus learning.]
[One line on what this section covers, for example: credit, prices, work, and land in Roman sources, read with concepts from AP Economics.]
[Placeholder: creditors call in loans, land prices fall, and the emperor lends from the treasury. Compare with emergency lending today.]
[Placeholder: a ruler turns down a cheaper way to move heavy stone so workers keep their jobs. Who gains and who loses from labor-saving tools.]
[Placeholder: what a price ceiling was meant to fix, and what the evidence says happened.]
[One line on what this section covers, for example: how Romans campaigned, argued, and governed, and what changed.]
[Placeholder: advice on coalitions, names, promises, and rivals, set beside a modern campaign.]
[Placeholder: how false stories spread in Ovid's account, and what that says about persuasion.]
[Placeholder: the Roman idea of ius gentium, and how it connects to debates in Model UN.]
The original project: translations with grammar notes and commentary on the Metamorphoses.
Translation with color-coded grammar. Lines 402–510 (the reflection and the death) are still to do. Planned for January and February.
[Placeholder: a sculptor falls for what he made. What does Ovid think each owes the other?]
[Placeholder: an inventor, his invention, and the cost of overreach.]
[Three or four sentences in your own words: who you are, how you work with the Latin, and who has read the translations. Name your Latin teacher here if they agree.]
[One line on how to contact you, or leave this out.]