Of course, we take it for granted that Roman behaviour was sadistic, beyond our own scale of values. But I did find myself wondering quite how, and how confidently, to draw the line between us and Fulvia.   more »

BOXES full of Roman artifacts are available from The Beacon, to be loaned to schools.   more »

A website devoted to gold and precious metals has an article on gold in the Roman economy, and in fact Roman money in general.   more »

Illustrate the deer-and-hunter simile, and the later hunt, in Aeneid IV with these pictures.   more »

I think this shows Odysseus in beggar's rags with Argos, Penelope's loom, and either Euryclea or Penelope - someone put me right, please! (Later) Someone has - see the comment. Thanks!   more »

Transferred to new blog   more »

About a curse tablet going on show in Leicester. Relevant to Cambridge Latin Course book 3   more »

Wisdom from a youngster after a Roman Week in a Tyneside school   more »

Now an initiative comes from the Cambridge Classics Project (do these folk never take a break?) to devise and produce a complete Class Civ course for British schools.   more »

There are so many articles these days coming out of America comparing the present state of the American project with the later years of the Roman Empire that I normally don't trouble this blog's readers with them. This one, however, begins the comparison with a lament over an alleged fall in educational standards, so you might find it of interest.   more »

I don't usually pass on news of archaeological finds unless one can take a class to visit them, but this piece on an almost complete ship's cargo with 1,300 amphorae is interesting for the reference to fish sauce.   more »

"Imagine no tomatoes in Mediterranean foods. Imagine no potatoes, no corn or no chocolate, and little sugar. Sugar cane was not grown in Egypt until the first century A.D. It was imported from India.”   more »

I am going to relocate some popular pictures from the blog to Photobucket, to economise on this blog's storage space and bandwidth use, both of which cost the ARLT. I apologise for any inconvenience.   more »

One of the excellent series on the ancient agora published by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens is now on line as pdf, with all the pictures.   more »

A study based on a 2000-year old recipe for hair dye has shown that ancient Greeks and Romans used nanotechnology to permanently colour grey hair black.   more »

Picture of leisure accessories for a Greek.   more »

This popular picture is often downloaded. To conserve blog bandwidth it is now lodged on PhotoBucket, but still freely available:   more »

Just a menider that BBC1 is showing the first of their new series, Ancient Rome: the Riseand Fall of an Empire, tonight at 9 p.m. This episode is on Nero.   more »

Those teaching Livy this year may find this, from Ha Aretz, interesting.   more »

The series producer of the BBC’s new docudrama Ancient Rome – the Rise and Fall of an Empire is no doubt an honourable man. He claims previous films “have tended to ignore the real history and chosen to fictionalise the story”.   more »

Adrian Murdoch in Bread and Circuses pointed me to a wonderful collection of images stored on Flickr here.   more »

Video (5 1/2 minutes) of Channel 4 interview with Robert Harris on Cicero and Tony Blair here.    more »

I am re-posting the Peplos Kore picture because I have messed up the previous posting.   more »

Just for fun there's a 2 minute film on the partially reconstructed Roman villa at Mehring here.   more »

The Sunday Times has been lavish in its coverage of Imperium, a novel about Cicero by Robert Harris.   more »

During my recent holiday in Germany I revisited Xanten, the remarkable reconstruction of a Roman town, and took some video with my digital camera. I spent some time yesterday and today editing video and stills together into a 15 minute tour of the town...   more »

Three photos from Dorothy King   more »

Gone are the days when you wandered round and a guard would open up anything that was shut. But there is a – very little publicized – secret for seeing some of the highlights.   more »

I think the ARLT site definitely needs a mini-site on school Classics trips. If it materialises, I´d like to suggest ...   more »

So far Ausonius and I have travelled from Bingen   more »

PhDiva comments in her Blog on 2006 being supposedly the 60th anniversary of the bikini. She points out not only the bikini-wearing females on the mosaics at Piazza Armerina, Sicily, but also evidence of bikinis from Bulgaria - a statue this time.   more »

Only the drawings on the Grecian urns are left behind us to have an idea about the greatness of Grecian art. Certainly these drawings are enough to invoke poetic imagination indeed. Remember the great poem of John Keats 'Ode to a Grecian urn�.   more »

Annals Book 1 is an A level text, but JP wanted to change our way of thinking about what it was really like when Augustus died and Tiberius took over the reins of power.   more »

Until Wednesday you can download Malvyn Bragg's half hour programme on Aristophanes and Menander from the BBC website.   more »

Mary Beard is writing a book on the Roman triumph.   more »

If you teach A level Classical Civilisation and use the AQA syllabus, then you are in clover from next year. Someone has actually published a coursebook for you and your students. And it's a real good un, as far as I can judge.    more »

This particular conversation is about what Roman tombstones would have looked like when originally coloured, and some clever people have used computer programs to show the results. There are many, many strands of conversation, though,   more »