This Education Guardian opinion piece doesn't mention the Romans in its remarks on History in schools, but you may find its drift helpful. Or not. Do comment!   more »

Minority interests such as classics were abandoned to the private sector long ago. The opportunity for some schools to declare themselves as specialist academies might seem like another chance for the state sector to resurrect almost lost disciplines.   more »

Tom Holland, the reviewer, is impressed by the erudition, but finds the book dismissive of the latest scholarship   more »

The Guardian printed yesterday the obituary of Rutherford 'Gus' Aris, mathematician, chemical engineer and classical scholar, born September 15 1929; died November 2 2005. It included this interesting paragraph:   more »

So, modern languages are going the way of Latin. The Guardian reports today that pupils are giving up modern languages.   more »

Lampard passed the Latin test   more »

Women lived and worked in Roman military forts, according to a telltale trail of lost hairpins and beads.   more »

The equestrian bronze of Marcus Aurelius will be on view starting next Thursday in a special glassed-in section of the Villa Caffarelli gardens on the Capitoline Hill.   more »

One who has studied Quintillian's rhetoric in Latin and has mastered the arts of debate, dialectics, and oratory — of which Quintillian was the master — is brilliantly prepared for law.   more »

Among the 11 Leibniz Prize winners 2006 is a Classical researcher.   more »

The Meaning of Tingo, which is shaping up to be this year's essential stocking filler. It's brilliant in its simplicity, being nothing more than a collection of odd and interesting words from around the world.   more »

Frank Stubbings, who died on October 29 at the age of 90, was the last of a distinguished group of British scholars who began a lifetime's work in Greek Bronze Age archaeology before the Second World War.   more »

Teachers emphasize classical education because it “goes with the grain” to teach in ways that complement a child’s natural behavior, they say.   more »

'Towering figure' in Latin literature Bailey dies at 87.   more »

"It's kind of neat because he jokes around with us," Shane added. "It's fun actually learning something while having a good time."   more »

IRVING – Most days, Cathy Earle assigns her 13 students to read several sentences in Latin about the Trojan War. Then they translate them – into Spanish and then English.   more »

Highlands Latin School bases its entire curriculum on Latin, with many of its teaching materials written by faculty. The school is housed at Crescent Hill Baptist Church but is not affiliated with a particular church.   more »

Yesterday evening BBC Radio 3 broadcast the complete incidental music for Wasps that Vaughan Williams wrote for the Cambridge Greek Play in 1909. This meant including enough of the play to let the music make sense. The English version by David Pountney was packed with modern relevance, without departing too much from Aristophanes, for my taste at least.   more »

This one got past my spam guard today:   more »

A useful link here. I think.   more »

If you move fast you can get the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's life of the Emperor Claudius free on line. He's today's subject, and you can ...   more »

Marget Attwood, who wrote 'The Handmaid's Tale', has turned her attention to Penelope. The review of her novel in the Christian Science Monitor suggests that Classics teachers would enjoy this book, but that it must be kept from students at all costs.   more »

This is an attack on ARLT orthodoxy about reading Latin correctly, surely. All the same, it is an interesting read.   more »

An American version of the Ermine Street Guard   more »

Here is a brochure you might find interesting.   more »

Could the swing back to phonics in the teaching of reading foreshadow a similar 'back to basics' in Latin teaching?   more »