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Barbara Bell gets around

arltblogger — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:15:25 +0000

I opened my local paper and there she was - Barbara Bell, flanked by lots of children in Baltonsborough, just up the road from me. And one of the children is holding a copy of Minimus.

The 50 best Christmas gifts for women

arltblogger — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:16:14 +0000

The Independent commissioned a remarkably enlightened woman, Annalisa Barbieri, to choose the 50 best women's Christmas presents for their Saturday section called "The Information". Described here as a "gift guru" - though she's really a journalist for the Guardian a lot of the time - Annalisa has included the Cambridge Latin Course among her top half century. This is what she writes about it:

A poster for the classroom - one of many available for download

arltblogger — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:52:11 +0000

Download the original.

The Friends of Classics brochure (cover)

arltblogger — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:25:19 +0000

Download the 6-page pdf brochure here.

Another page from the Friends of Classics brochure

arltblogger — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:26:27 +0000

Download the 6-page pdf brochure here.

The book cover - see review on this blog

arltblogger — Sun, 29 May 2005 15:57:18 +0100

Professor Shackleton Bailey

arltblogger — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:29:20 +0000

See his obituaries posted 12 Dec 2005

An old volume from my bookshelves

arltblogger — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:07:56 +0000

I thought you might like to see the edition of Cicero that I picked up nearly 50 years ago.

A complete illustrated edition of Cicero

arltblogger — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:09:26 +0000

Another view of my old volume, with a rather attractive title page.

The old print is not easy to read

arltblogger — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:11:13 +0000

One of Cicero's letters to Atticus, in a type-face that borrows shapes from handwriting of the time.

Cicero in two volumes

arltblogger — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:15:45 +0000

Edited by Gronovius and published in 1692. I found these in a second hand bookshop just off Russell Square in 1957, and paid 25 shillings for the two.

Vergil in a military cemetery in Tunisia

arltblogger — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:46:24 +0100

It's from the Georgics, about bees; but I found it moving, as was the whole cemetery. These men were killed in the battles with Rommel.