Tom Cotton (whose on-line translations of English classics I commended yesterday) has found a German-language version DVD very good, and in answer to my query has tracked down the English-language version.   more »

Mary Beard has blogged on Why Athenian women didn't have the vote   more »

Interesting piece in the Los Angeles Times where Lefkowitz argues that monotheism is a bad thing, and that the Greek gods, who made things hard for humans, are more suitable for the modern world.   more »

"long on workmanlike scholarship but short on revelation"   more »

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to your local paper?   more »

The older editions of the Cambridge Latin Course held a surprise in the 'Roma' stage that hit me on first reading like a punch to the stomach. A night scene in Rome, and the silence was suddenly broken by: 'mi Deus! mi Deus! respice me! quare me deseruisti?'   more »

Edith Hall, Research Professor in Classics and in Drama & Theatre, Royal Holloway, was a guest on The Verb this evening. She talked about the Chorus in Greek drama.   more »

A fuller account of the Greek and Roman theatre acoustics that I noted the other day. This account still confounds theatres and amphitheatres.   more »

I am learning about ancient civilizations in school. Our teacher said that jars called amphorae, found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, were most often used for transporting "garum" fish sauce by the ancient Romans. What is garum fish sauce?   more »

An email from Mary Beard alerted me to this debate in the Guardian. It seems to have a happy ending, and raises some interesting points along the way.   more »

Trier museum has scenes of families dining, of pupils and their teacher, and of tenants paying rent to their landlord, but I don't know how to interpret this one. Suggestions welcome. It's a good picture to illustrate different chairs and a table.   more »

There's a bit of Classical stuff on a blog called   more »

I was easily convinced that originally one could see the Trajan's Column sculpture from flat roofs or something all around. After all, there was a lovely drawing in the book.   more »

This could appeal to students of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation.   more »

Four lectures on the Athenian Empire are to be given by Ian Morris of Stanford University   more »

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 »