When Sextus Pompey desperately wants to know who will win the final showdown in Greece between his father, Pompey the Great, and the rebellious Julius Caesar, he knows there is only one place he can look for help - and it's not an oracle of Apollo or Jupiter. He needs a more sinister and potent magic, so he makes his way to the remote lair of the most formidable witch in ancient Thessaly,
Erictho
.
Erictho, Tartarorum Terror
is an
all-Latin tiered reader
offering selections from book six of Lucan's epic poem
De Bello Civil
i (also called
Pharsalia
). Its goal is to bridge the gap between didactic materials and authentic Roman literature. Each selection has been rewritten in two different levels of Latin so that t
he intermediate or advanced reader is able to seamlessly progress to the original poetry while staying in the target language
. There is also a Latin-Latin glossary and Latin notes for each passage, as well as a Latin introduction to prosody and metrics.