Here's the first part of a piece in Lancaster Online - that's Lancaster PA, by the way. The article is followed by comments from an internet discussion, including this:

" It is a shame the local public schools don't see the value of Latin.   more »

ATHENS - The National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece's main venue for its collection of ancient antiquities, is set to fully reopen this spring. The museum was damaged in a 1999 earthquake.   more »

A review in the Christian Science Monitor describes an historical novel about Hannibal that might be of interest to those tackling Livy Book 30 this year.

Pride of Carthage by David Durham Doubleday   more »

Mary Renault was the first historical novelist I read whose stories were set in ancient Greece. They still in my view, take a lot of beating. I have recommended my sixth formers to read The Mask of Apollo to get an idea of Greek theatre as a living enterprise, and The Last of the Wine for a convincing account of the Peloponnesian War. I heard the author say in an interview that the epitaph she craved was: "She got it right." It feels as if she did get fifth century Greece right.   more »

Most online books are older, out of copyright texts. This one was published in 1996. I haven't read it, so can't comment on its value, but it's there, freely available.   more »

This is taking me into a new realm. When I sent out the latest ARLT newsletter I got a number of automatic messages telling me that it hadn't reached certain teachers. I e-mailed several of the people, to see if an ordinary personal e-mail would get through, and one American teacher got her computer expert husband to investigate. This is what he found - I feel rather hurt at Verizon's lumping me - and the whole of Europe - in with spammers, particularly as a lot of the spam I receive seems to come from the US!   more »