Why Learn Latin – From the Obvious & Beyond

I started this web site nearly two week ago now...  I've articulated - perhaps overly so - why I started this site.  The seed from which this site is growing was learning a language [Latin] I had no business learning, given my utter failures to learn any language outside of my native English.  I was thoroughly…

First Post: What was I Thinking? – the Long & the Short of it…

The creation of this site can be traced back to when I started collecting books about twenty years ago. Roughly, 14 years ago, after reading Homer's Iliad & The Odyssey,  I decided to learn Latin so that I could read Virgil's continuation of the story in the original language - The Æneid.  As I progressed, very slowly but steadily, I discovered that eBay had a much better selection of books in Latin to read than any bookstore - new or used.  It was obvious that the largest selection of Latin was ecclesiastical - by a very large margin.  I decided to purchase a book on Moral Theology by a Jesuit priest from the year 1748...