I am proud of having once got the excellent Philip Howard to give a lecture to an ARLT Summer School. He is a staunch, erudite and witty supporter of the Classics, and his piece on the downsizing of the Mars bar factory in Slough contains this fine survey of names from Greek and Roman mythology used in marketing today.   more »

If you take the following sentences alone, you will think that Simon J is attacking Latin. In fact they are part of an article furiously attacking the decision of OCR to reduce the syllabus of Latin and Greek at GCSE:

'I studied classics to A level. I found them enjoyable, irrelevant and a dreadful cost to my wider education, which I have struggled to rectify ever since.'   more »

Si hunc libellum latine scriberem, quot lectores intellegerent? Which is how Vatican Radio, or Finnish Radio�s Friday-night news bulletin, might put it.   more »