Elijah P.

Hi! I'm Elijah, and (as of December 2025) I've just finished the honours year of my Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Classics and minoring in Ancient World Studies) at the University of Melbourne, with a thesis on magic in Vergil's eight Eclogue. I've been tutoring Latin throughout my degree in order to aid students who'd like to improve and to spread my passion for the language. I like to give my students freedom in how they study, and so I prefer to let them decide how much work they do outside of lessons in regards to my tutoring: beyond lessons I can provide passages to translate, last-minute advice, general explanations, and so on. I like to engage students and give them a taste of something different, so I'm more likely to pick passages from slightly more obscure authors who might write in a slightly more difficult style than might be found in schoolwork. I don't like adapting or editing texts for difficulty, but I'll provide explanations for things I don't expect students to know. For younger students who might not be able to translate proper Latin texts I can write exercises (given notice) and teach according to the CLC (Cambridge Latin Course), but see below. I started professionally tutoring a few students near the start of 2022, although I have much more experience translating: my document for completed works is over 330,000 words long, including: - Vergil: Aeneid books 6-10, Georgics & Eclogues - Lucan: Pharsalia (all of it) - Juvenal: Satire 10 - Calpurnius Siculus' and Nemesianus' Eclogues - Horace's Odes book 2 - Iliad books 1-3, 6, and 11 - Pindar: Nemean & Isthmian Odes - a few other works from various authors in both Latin and Greek My documents for extracts and random things I've translated is over 360,000 words; from other languages I've translated Dante's Divine Comedy, the Song of Roland, the Bhagavad Gita, and many other small extracts (as of January 2026). I spend most of my time working with Latin and Ancient Greek, and in my own time I've been delving into many other languages (mostly as a result of my thesis work). I have a preference to teach students who are in VCE (or adulthood more broadly), but I am perfectly willing to tutor students below that level: the only difference is that at lower year levels they are generally using a textbook, which limits my ability to provide appropriately tailored assistance (beyond helping with translations and grammatical explanations). I tutor online (zoom or discord), and I'm flexible with my lesson timing: I'm not that fussed about charging for a bit of overtime, and I can hold lessons most evenings/nights as well as weekends. If you have any inquiries or other questions, please get in touch!