Astra Antiqua

Macronized. Every long vowel in the Latin is marked.

More than seventy Latin stories from Greek myth, about Hercules, Perseus and many others. R. B. Appleton wrote them for students and published them in 1914 as Fabulae Virginibus Puerisque aut Narrandae aut Recitandae, with a full glossary of the words an intermediate reader may not know.

The illustrations come from Johann Bayer’s Uranometria, the star atlas of 1603.

Promētheus prīmus hominēs ex lutō fīnxit.
Prometheus was the first to shape men out of clay.

Second edition, 2026. This edition corrects the long marks throughout and resets the text.

Paperback, 6 × 9 inches, 112 pages. ISBN 979-8-9876456-1-1.