These readers, written by experts in the field, provide well-annotated Latin selections to be used as authoritative introductions to Latin authors, genres, or topics, for intermediate or advanced college Latin study. Their relatively small size (covering 500-600 lines) makes them ideal to use in combination.

Each volume in the nineteen-volume series includes a comprehensive introduction, bibliography for further reading, Latin text with notes at the back, and complete vocabulary.

The authors’ expertise about their particular Latin writer or genre and their ability to keep in mind the needs of intermediate and advanced college students to read the passages have resulted in textbooks that can be used in multiple ways and combinations . . .
—Judith Sebesta, Teaching Classical Languages (Spring 2011)

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An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the Metamorphoses
Ellen D. Finkelpearl

A Caesar Reader: Selections from Bellum Gallicum and Bellum Civile, and from Caesar’s Letters, Speeches, and Poetry<
W. Jeffrey Tatum

A Cicero Reader: Selections from Five Essays and Four Speeches, with Five Letters
James M. May

A Latin Epic Reader: Selections from Ten Epics
Alison Keith

A Livy Reader: Selections from Ab Urbe Condita
Mary Jaeger

A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War
Susanna Braund

A Martial Reader: Selections from the Epigrams
Craig Williams

An Ovid Reader: Selections from Seven Works
Carole E. Newlands

A Plautus Reader: Selections from Eleven Plays
John Henderson

A Propertius Reader: Eleven Selected Elegies
P. Lowell Bowditch

A Roman Army Reader: Twenty-One Selections from Literary, Epigraphic, and Other Documents
Dexter Hoyos

A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal
Catherine C. Keane

A Roman Woman Reader: Selections from the Second Century BCE through the Second Century CE
Sheila K. Dickison and Judith P. Hallett

A Sallust Reader: Selections from Bellum Catilinae, Bellum Iugurthinum, and Historiae
Victoria E. Pagán

A Seneca Reader: Selections from Prose and Tragedy
James Ker

A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace
Josiah Osgood

A Tacitus Reader: Selections from Annales, Historiae, Germania, Agricola, and Dialogus
Steven H. Rutledge

A Terence Reader: Selections from Six Plays
William S. Anderson

A Tibullus Reader: Seven Selected Elegies
Paul Allen Miller
An Apuleius Reader (BMCR, June 2013)
A Livy Reader (CJ-Online, August 2013)
A Lucan Reader (BMCR, June 2009)
A Martial Reader (BMCR, July 2012)
An Ovid Reader (BMCR, September 2015)
A Plautus Reader (BMCR, October 2010)
A Propertius Reader (Euroclassica, January 2015)
A Roman Army Reader (BMCR, March 2014)
A Roman Verse Satire Reader (BMCR, March 2011)
A Roman Woman Reader (BMCR, August 2015)
A Sallust Reader (BMCR, August 2010)
A Seneca Reader (BMCR, September 2012)
A Suetonius Reader (CJ-Online, May 2012)
A Tacitus Reader (BMCR, May 2014)
A Terence Reader (BMCR, March 2010)
Ronnie Ancona is Professor Emerita of Classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center (CUNY).

Her publications include Time and the Erotic in Horace’s Odes (Duke University Press); Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9; Writing Passion Plus: A Catullus Reader; and Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers). With David J. Murphy, she cowrote Horace: A Transitional Latin Reader and A Horace Workbook, also from BCP. She coedited Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press) and New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World (Oxford University Press). She coedits with Sarah Pomeroy the “Women in Antiquity” series from Oxford University Press. Her latest book is Martha Graham’s Greek Myth–Based Dances and Her Collaboration with Isamu Noguchi (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026).

From the Series Editor:

The BC Latin Readers series grew out of a year-long exploration of what teachers of advanced college-level Latin students wanted and needed in the area of textbooks. The answer was short books written by experts, incorporating the best of scholarship and pedagogy, with well annotated selections and vocabulary. The short format allows teachers to use the books as they see fit, using several in a single course for rapid reading or fewer for students with less experience, or using one or two in conjunction with other longer textbooks. While aimed at the advanced college level, we expect the series to be attractive for intermediate-level college students, secondary school students doing advanced Latin work, post-baccalaureate students, and even graduate students.

The books can be mixed and matched to provide a variety of Latin reading opportunities. For example, a course on Vergil might add the Lucan volume to read selections from a later epic. A course on Roman Comedy might require an entire play of Plautus or Terence and then selections from our Plautus and/or Terence volumes. A course on the Roman Historians might use the volumes on Sallust, Tacitus, Caesar, Livy, and Suetonius, or the Roman Army. Teachers will have more freedom to design, revise, or add to their Latin courses using these volumes.

A particular pleasure for me in editing the series has been discovering outstanding Latin scholars who are also committed to pedagogy. The series authors will provide Latin students and teachers with exciting, user-friendly, and reliable guides to their topics.

Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and the Graduate Center (CUNY)