Education: Arma Virumque . . .

For Julius Caesar, another Ides of March was ahead, though this time the main conspirator looked more like Fanny Farmer than Cassius. She is a serious Midwestern schoolmarm, with a bent for poetry, baking cakes, and puttering in a garden. But if Miss Lenore Geweke (pronounced gave-a-key) has her way—and she well might—Latin beginners all over the U.S. will no longer fight their way through Caesar's trim, tight prose.

Miss Geweke began plotting more than ten years ago, and has already won some powerful support. With a Ph.D. in the classics, and years of...