Illustrated, graded Latin readers of the classics — De Bello Gallico, the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, Pliny's Letters, and Frontinus — built for homeschool families, AP Latin students, and anyone learning Latin by actually reading it.
Imperial Restitution Press publishes Latin books designed for readers who want more than isolated grammar drills. Every volume presents a real classical text — Caesar, Vergil, Ovid, Pliny, Frontinus — retold in staged, readable Latin with long vowels marked, so students meet vocabulary, grammar, culture, and the story itself together.
The library now covers the two authors of the AP Latin syllabus (Caesar's De Bello Gallico and Vergil's Aeneid) alongside Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny's Letters, and the Strategemata trilogy. These books fit homeschool Latin programs, AP preparation and review, classroom enrichment, summer reading, and adult self-learners returning to Latin.
Reader-submitted photos show the books in use: illustrated Roman scenes, readable Latin pages, and the physical feel of a workbook students can keep open beside them.
Sixteen Latin books, one coherent path: the easiest first reader, an illustrated dictionary of the first thousand words, foundation stories, the complete AP Latin authors, and the Stoics — plus a children's English gateway and, below, the Gospels in easy Latin from our sister imprint.
The Gallic War Retold for Latin Learners
Caesar's own war, book by book, retold in clear graded Latin with macrons and full-page illustrations. The natural first step toward reading the AP Latin syllabus author in the original.
The Gallic War Retold for Latin Learners
The campaign continues: the fleet against the Veneti, the crossing to Britain, and steadily richer Latin as the reader's strength grows with Caesar's legions.
The Gallic War Retold for Latin Learners
Vercingetorix, the great revolt, and the siege of Alesia — the climax of the war in Latin that now approaches Caesar's own, preparing readers for the unadapted text.
The Whole Gallic War in One Volume
All three volumes bound as one: the complete Gallic War as a single graded reading course, from first page to Alesia. The best value for classrooms and committed readers.
The Aeneid of Vergil Retold for Latin Learners
The other half of the AP Latin syllabus: Vergil's epic — Troy burning, Dido, the underworld, the war in Italy — retold in graded Latin with illustrated plates worthy of the poem.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Retold for Latin Learners
The whole mythological universe in one book: Daphne, Icarus, Orpheus, Pygmalion and the rest of Ovid's transformations in flowing graded Latin — from Creation to the poet's closing vīvam.
The Last of the Romans · Learn Latin with Ammianus
The last pagan emperor, told by the eyewitness soldier-historian who marched with him: the whispering court, the battle of Strasbourg across four chapters, the Rhine crossings — with Ammianus' real, source-verified sentences framed in every chapter.
The Shield Is Raised · Learn Latin with Ammianus
Raised on a shield at midnight, Julian must take the world or die refusing it — and this time Ammianus stands inside his own story, on the walls of Amida as the King of Kings rides out of the dawn. 24 chapters, 3 campaign maps, the temples reopened.
The Last March · Learn Latin with Ammianus
The oracles warn him not to go, and he goes anyway: Julian rides against Persia with a mile-long river fleet, and the historian who rode in his column lived to record it. 45 illustrations, 3 campaign maps — and by the last page you read Ammianus unassisted. The trilogy concludes.
In Nova Corpora — the Myths from Creation
The illustrated first half of Ovid's epic of transformations: Creation and the Flood, Daphne turning to laurel, Phaethon's crash, Icarus falling — the foundational myths in graded Latin.
The Myths to VĪVAM — the Poet's Claim on Eternity
The second half of the transformations: Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion, Midas, the fall of Troy, Caesar's star — closing on Ovid's own wager that his poem will outlive Rome. It did.
The Letters of Pliny Retold for Latin Learners
Rome in the first person: Vesuvius erupting, ghost stories, dinner parties, the daily texture of an empire — Pliny's letters in graded Latin that reads like eavesdropping on the ancient world.
The First Thousand Words of Latin, Explained in Latin
The dictionary of the series: 35 full-page engraved plates of Roman daily life with every object numbered and named, and 1,800 core words — the vocabulary of Caesar, Ovid, Vergil, and Pliny — each defined in easy Latin with real lines from the authors. Keep it beside any reader on this page, or beside Familia Romana.
Roman Military Tales (Lingua Latina)
Volume I introduces students to Frontinus through clear, engaging Roman military stories. It is the best starting point for readers who want to learn Latin through narrative and historical action.
More Roman Military Tales (Lingua Latina)
Volume II continues the progression with more complex military operations and richer Latin. It works well after Volume I or alongside an established Latin foundation.
Advanced Latin Through Epic Military Campaigns
Volume III brings the trilogy to a more advanced level, using celebrated strategic episodes to move readers toward more sophisticated Latin reading.
365 Days of the Roman Year
One page for every day of the Roman calendar: a verified line of Roman wisdom in three voices — the original Latin, plain English, and easy Latin — over the festivals, field work, and history of the living Roman year. A line a day, and the language starts to stick.
The Heroes of Rome in Very Easy Latin
Romulus to Caesar in the gentlest Latin of the whole series, illustrated with museum-quality paintings shared with the English Heroes of Rome. The first rung of the ladder — the ideal very first Latin book.
Read the Stoics in Latin
Thirty-six graded units drawn from the Letters to Lucilius, climbing from easy Latin to Seneca's own unaltered sentences. The only graded reader of the Stoics in print — for Latin students and philosophy readers alike.
True Stories of Roman Virtue for Young Readers
Eighty-one true heroic stories of Ancient Rome, told in English for ages 7–12 and arranged by the twenty-six Roman virtues — the family read-aloud that starts children on the road to Rome. Its companion, Virī Rōmae, brings the same stories and art in very easy Latin.
From our sister imprint, Contemplative Sciences Press: the New Testament as illustrated, step-by-step graded readers of the Latin Vulgate. The same explain-it-in-Latin method as the whole collection — applied to the most-read Latin ever written. No prior Latin required; language help only, never doctrinal commentary.
The Gospel of Matthew in Easy Latin
From your first Latin sentence to Jerome's own words: the Gospel of Matthew as a graded, fully illustrated Vulgate reader. The real text — the Pater Noster, the Beatitudes — highlighted in gilded panels marked hoc ipsum legis: "this, you are truly reading."
The Gospel of Mark in Easy Latin
The complete Gospel of Mark — every verse — in twenty-two graded chapters with twenty-two photorealistic plates, from the Jordan to the empty tomb. Finish it and you have read an entire book of the Bible in Latin.
The library maps directly onto the AP Latin syllabus — Caesar's De Bello Gallico and Vergil's Aeneid — as graded on-ramps that carry students from first Latin to the unadapted texts, with Ovid, Pliny, and Frontinus as extensive-reading track beside them. Every volume marks long vowels (macrons) throughout and keeps the Latin real: no invented episodes, no simplified grammar dead-ends.
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Yes. Every volume is a Lingua Latina edition: real classical texts retold in staged, readable Latin with long vowels (macrons) marked throughout, so readers acquire the language by reading it.
Directly. The AP Latin syllabus is built on Caesar's De Bello Gallico and Vergil's Aeneid — our graded De Bello Gallico volumes and Aeneis carry students from first Latin to the point where the unadapted AP passages are readable, and work as review and extensive reading alongside an AP course.
De Bello Gallico Volume 1 or Strategemata Volume I are the two foundation entry points. Readers who love mythology can start with the Metamorphoses; the series grows in difficulty volume by volume.
Yes. The graded progression, illustrated chapters, marked vowels, and real Roman content make the library work as the reading spine of a homeschool Latin program from first year through AP level.
The stories are the ancient authors' own — Caesar's campaigns, Vergil's epic, Ovid's myths, Pliny's letters, Frontinus' stratagems — retold in graded Latin that converges on the original text, with nothing invented.
For most students, Volume I is the right first step: clear Latin, memorable Roman episodes, and a path that continues through the full trilogy.
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