Salvete, omnes!
I have started a new project, reciting passages from the Aeneid in a semi-drammatic fashion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmDfdnktMcI&list=PLU1WuLg45SixAYDZD4Lg5-qNGi8UShczN
In these readings, I hoping to really tell the story, perhaps something like a Roman father might have read it to his children in the time of Augustus. My opinion about the ancient language is that the elisions and meter found in poetry are actually part of the natural rhythms of Latin speaking, and when I converse with my friends and colleagues in Latin I attempt to preserve that rhythm (just as in Japanese, another language with short and long syllables and vowels). Thus, with no particular preparation other than having read it once through before, I am attempting in these recordings to emulate what any ancient Roman might have done after purchasing a copy of the Aeneid — the way you or I might read aloud Shakespeare or Byron to another — subconsciously or semiconsciously aware of the rhythm, but not needing to emphasize because it comes through as part of the cleverness of the arrangement of the lines in any case. I hope to improve in this tenuous balancing act in future recordings, but this first video is a start! I hope it is useful. 
