Boris Johnson is going to announce the winners of the CICERO competition in his Presidential Address to the Joint Association of Classical Teachers   more »

My selection from the new list from Oxford. The first is an original work, and the rest are translations. They are all less than £20.   more »

Please find the details below for a production of one of Euripides' most famous and influential tragedies, to be staged at New College Oxford next month.   more »

Full-time Classics teacher required by the Hulme Grammar Schools, Chamber Road Oldham, OL8 4BX   more »

The University of Oxford Onassis Programme (which supports the development of new theatre work inspired by ancient Greek drama) is bringing the Red Ladies to Oxford and London at the end of this month.   more »

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I saw an amazing play at the Barbican theatre in London, `Molora'. It is a South African version of the three Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, known as the Oresteia trilogy.   more »

How the Direct Method, described in detail in this article, could be combined with the Latin courses at present in use is an interesting question.   more »

I have posted my pictures taken in the Bardo Museum in Tunis on the School Travel site   more »

Dipping into the Vatican Latin site (see recent post) I find that the Vulgate is there on line, but not as I know it, Jim. Apparently the Second Vatican Council authorised a new scholarly version, first of the Psalms and then of the whole Bible:   more »

This weekend about 6,000 young Catholics will set off on a 75-mile walk from Paris to Chartres Cathedral — and as they walk they will all be praying and singing in Latin.   more »

HOW a solicitor from Melrose became Scotland's most celebrated archaeologist – thanks to a Roman treasure trove on his doorstep.   more »

It is historical fact that there were female gladiators" writes Stephen Wisdom, author of Gladiators: 100 BC to AD 200. The proof lies in literature: Suetonius and Martial, among other authors, made mention of gladiatrices. A marble relief in the British Museum depicts combatants named Achillia and Amazon in the midst of a match in a region of the Roman Empire called Halicarnassus.   more »

The Roman Catholic Church, for centuries a bastion of Latin usage, has given the ancient tongue a 21st Century boost by launching a website in Latin.   more »

Going through my pictures from last summer I came upon this, which I like very much.   more »

In gladiatorial combat, the death rate was only about 5 percent, and that was usually through accidental injury or poor medical care. One doctor to a gladiatorial troupe in Turkey wrote that none of his athletes died.   more »

Catching up on Mary Beard's blog, I was amazed, and very pleased, to find that this blog featured in her list of ten best blogs.   more »

My attention has just been drawn to these eight YouTube films of Luigi Miraglia explaining why and how he uses the Oerberg 'Lingua latina per se illustrata', a direct method for teaching Latin.   more »

Have a look at the recent contribution from Fettes on our Forum.   more »

“I always used to encourage my own kids to learn a bit of Latin because it’s the root of the English language and all the romantic languages. Sometimes, when you are trying to work out what a word means, you can go back to the Latin root and I like that aspect.”   more »

Classical Workbooks sent an update with the recent JACT/ARLT mailing.   more »

Thanks to Sally Knights and Redland School for this rap based on Amores I.   more »

Thank to Sally Knights and Redland School for this.   more »

More from Chigwell on YouTube   more »

On YouTube   more »

Congratulations must go to JACT President Boris Johnson on his election as Mayor of London.   more »

With the latest mailing from JACT/ARLT came this notice. The course seems to be a comprehensive tour of all the sites in southern Greece you will ever want to visit, in the company of learned Classicists, so I commend it to teachers.   more »

How many times have we read: Romulus, the eponymous founder of Rome?   more »

the one that most captivates walkers is Hadrian’s Wall.   more »

Perl and his classmates are learning first-hand how the ancient Romans engineered and built architectural monuments like the Pantheon and the Colosseum, Roman baths, aqueducts, mosaics, and catapults. At the same time, they are learning about Roman daily life, from art and architecture, to transportation and urban planning.   more »

It's worth visiting the link and watching the video of the Points West report.   more »

The sixth issue of Iris magazine will be out in May. This edition focuses on the search for truth in the ancient world, and includes:   more »

The Oxford Mail reports on Lorna Robinson's initiative.   more »

Lizzie Belcher has sent details of an epigraphy day at the YM on June 23rd.   more »

See the advert here for Latin at both GCSE and Advanced Level. Currently over 20 students are studying Latin GCSE.   more »

Our primary function was to parade through the streets of Chester during the summer as a tourist attraction.   more »

Finally, a third DVD delivers a series of short films, commissioned by the Encyclopedia Brittanica, which offers a classroom like take on Roman History (this material is only available as part of the limited edition package).   more »

"The Classics Library is a month old, and I hope you’ve been able to make some use of it!"   more »

It's a long time - too long - since I visited the CIRCE site. The news page announces that the project has won an award:   more »

I've only just been told! Radio four recorded a Latin in the Parks session   more »

A suggestion that a Classics teachers' TripAdvisor be set up.   more »

A town gate that was probably built with a grant from Roman Emperor Nero has been discovered in Cologne   more »

I am hoping that memorizing the language's endless conjugations and declensions, and submitting myself to its exacting syntax, will keep my brain plastic as I cruise into my 40s.   more »

Roman Britain is alive and popular, and being dug up or exhibited   more »

I pass on this notice that came to me from OUP   more »

Here is the link to the BBC player. It's available for only 7 days after broadcast.   more »

You are cordially invited to the launch of The Hellenic Bookservice’s new shop, 100 metres from our current address   more »

A slideshow with comments.   more »

The CICERO experience on April 18th was truly wonderful   more »

Roma by Steven Saylor, 663 pages of mixed fascination and irritation.   more »

Under the provocative title 'Is Stonehenge Roman?', Current Archaeology reports on a Time Team dig which really has found Roman stuff there.   more »

"As part of the initiative we have set up a ‘Classics Club’, held on Saturdays for students over the age of 14, which is proving highly popular."   more »

What should the university do when a professor insists on teaching demonstrable untruths?   more »

Round-up of what came up while I was on holiday in Germany   more »

Try here.   more »

The scheme is aimed at local communities, and will take the form of a series of taster sessions held in local parks. The sessions are designed to be fun, relaxed and informal, and will involve teachers combining talks on aspects of ancient culture with an introduction to Latin.   more »

The course in Venice has a website.   more »

There's an article that might be useful for pupil research at   more »

A team of employees from shower manufacturer, Roman, raised over £5,000 for two local charities by completing a challenge to walk Hadrian’s Wall, coast to coast, over Easter weekend.   more »

All of these students have put forth hard work and conscientious effort to win these awards. They were joined by over 134,500 others from all 50 states and eleven foreign countries.   more »

I was interested to find that a Roman glass jug has just been sold on e-bay for just $9.90.   more »

In ancient times the Appian Way, which links Rome to the southern city of Brindisi, was known as the regina viarum, the queen of the roads. But these days its crown appears to be tarnished by chronic traffic congestion, vandalism and, some of its guardians grumble, illegal development.   more »

Many aspects of ancient Rome are familiar to us. Think of the Romans and we conjure up images of mosaics, baths, aqueducts, the Coliseum and Pompeii. But what do we know about disability in the Roman Empire? What role did disabled peopleplay in Roman society? What were Roman attitudes towards disability?   more »

I've just listened to an excellent talk in the Radio 3 Essay series. Prof Christopher Pelling has an engaging manner of speaking, and filled in the background to Herodotus expertly and ended with something a bit controversial.   more »

I think there is room for discussion as to whether there is space for a profession-based examination independent of the state examinations, which are subject to political vagaries.   more »

'The face of an emperor -- Hadrian inspects the wall' and 'Bede & Beijing'   more »

Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi claims he speaks Latin well enough to engage Roman emperor Julius Caesar in lunchtime conversation.   more »

I first visited the temple in September 1958, after my first year as a Classics student. My friend Mark and I travelled by train to Athens (with an adventure on the way that must be for another time), a journey that cost £18 return.   more »

Not sure about that one.   more »

The more Classical events the better, but I hope people don't get confused between the international CICERO competition that I've been reporting here, and this one in Arpino   more »

The Romans first utilised the Greek idea of the seated female figure to represent Roma on the coins of Nero, though Roma’s helmeted bust had appeared centuries earlier on the silver coins of the Republic. The coin of Elagabalus in fact shows Roma, not Athena. It was struck at Rome in AD218.   more »

THE Museum of Fine Arts Universal Art collection is exhibiting, for the first time in Cuba and in Latin America, 23 chalcographies depicting friezes from the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, Greece, accompanied by plaster casts of three blocks of friezes, donated by the Winckelmann Institute.   more »

But now, after the centuries of neglect and years of debate and campaigning, Circus Maximus is finally to get some attention. Beginning on 20 June, the city's archeological authorities are to begin a careful and respectful restoration.   more »

A page with basic information about Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester), but, more interesting, an aerial view.   more »

A useful, and growing, page of links indexed by keywords - and an interesting question.   more »

An article about a Florida house called Tradewinds, showing how ideas used by the Romans still work well.   more »

An account by the Director, M. Patrick Voisin.   more »

The Weinstein Company's Miriam Collection -- a premiere label that restores and releases high-quality vintage classics, contemporary classics, and notable foreign films -- has announced the upcoming DVD release of The Fall of the Roman Empire on April 29th.   more »

Rap songs performed in Latin are being held up as an antidote to the dumbing down of English and French at a festival in Europe.   more »

Various news items today   more »