Making the classics readable again
Litura is a close-reading platform for Latin and Ancient Greek. It is for anyone who wants to read the classics in the original: complete beginners, students working through set texts, and readers coming back to a language they once learned.
Our story
Most people who start Latin or Greek stop before they ever read a real poem. The grammar comes first, for years, and the texts that made the languages worth learning arrive too late.
Litura turns that around. The name is Latin for an erasure, the smoothing of a wax tablet so it can be written on again. We wanted a page you could come to with no Latin at all and leave having read a line of the Aeneid, understanding every word in it.
Our mission
To make the Latin and Greek classics readable in the original for anyone willing to spend a few minutes a day, by explaining every word in context and teaching only the grammar a reader needs next.
What we believe
- 1Real texts, earlyBeginners should meet Vergil and Homer in the first week, not after two years of drills. The lessons teach just enough grammar to start reading.
- 2Every word explainedEach word carries its dictionary form, its full parsing and a note on what it is doing in that line, so no reader has to guess or reach for a grammar.
- 3Three ways to translateA literal version that follows the word order, a readable student version and a literary one: you can see how the sentence is built and how it should sound.