A. Gratius Avitus

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thumb|A._Gratius_Avituswith_Reginald Foster at the "Æstiva Romæ Latinitas" of 1998A. Gratius Avitus is a Latin philologist born in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1968. In London, his city of residence since 1992, he founded the Circulus Latinus Londiniensis. He also promoted a Societas Circulorum Latinorum.

He is widely known for his teaching of living Latin at the Schola Latina Universalis and the Academia Thules.

He also promoted the living use of the Latin language at the 2005 Summer School [Cf. http://www.arlt.co.uk/dhtml/arlt_db.php?catID=4] of the Association for Latin Teaching and lectured in Latin about Latin teaching through the Internet at the 11th International Conference [Cf. http://www.academialatina.org/acroases.html] of the Academia Latinitati Fovendæ.

Publications

* "Thornton Wilder, "Nascuntur poetæ...", "Navigare necesse est, Quattuordecim viatoriæ narrationes veste Latina indutæ, Miscellanea Gaio Licoppe dicata edidit Francisca Licoppe", Brussels, Musée de la Maison d'Erasme, 2006.

* "De vivá institutione Latiná per rete", "Melissa" 142 (2008) 2-4.

Films

* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KDg70dIbDUw At an interview about living Latin teaching on the Internet.]

References

External links

* [http://avitus.alcuinus.net/schola_latina/invitatio_en.php/ Schola Latina Universalis]
* [http://www.academiathules.org/studyguide/facultaslitterarum/ Facultas Litterarum of the Academia Thules]

ee also

*Schola Latina Universalis
*Societas Circulorum Latinorum
*Recent Latin