Most advanced Latin courses have students reading from editions made by scholars. Stanford OHS’s capstone Latin seminar has students making new editions entirely.
In this course, students use the accumulated knowledge of their previous three years of language study to create a new edition of these texts, with a glossary and grammatical commentary, for future students as part of Pixelia Publishing’s open access educational texts.
By working on previously unavailable texts, students are not only expanding their own mastery of Latin but are also expanding the available corpus of Latin language texts for future Latin students. One ongoing project, for example, is Pixelia’s Experrecta Series of Women Latin Authors.
Students of this year’s Latin capstone seminar are hard at work on creating the upcoming Anthology of Letters from Women in Ancient Rome, including everything from notes on the letters’ authors to placement of macrons in the texts.