Less familiar is Stabiano, a nearby villa colony on the Bay of Naples, where ancient Rome's rich and powerful summered. Stabiano also was buried in pumice and ash when Vesiuvius exploded, and has since been excavated. Archaeological digs, begun in 1749 and still progressing, show that home life for Rome's super-privileged was privileged indeed.   more »

The Centre for British Teachers who are running the show need to hear from us very, very soon.   more »

The parallel drawn with Horatius keeping the bridge is the Classical reference in this piece. You may be interested also in the feeling expressed by the Philippines writer, that the USA is trying to use its economic and military might to force the Philippines into releasing an American rapist.   more »

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Modern historians dislike Sallust because of his moralizing. A moral view of history has long been unfashionable. Sallust makes us uncomfortable, because he could be describing an America reaching unprecedented wealth and power overnight, or, not to put too fine a point on it, moralizing Republicans loving both money and office.   more »

The post on Mount's book Amo amas amat has had two comments - which is a deluge for this blog!   more »

As you may know, the Cambridge Latin Course Book I E-Learning Resource has been shortlisted for an award at next month's BETT Educational Technology Show - the world's largest and most successful technology in education show.   more »

What do you call Santa's little helper?   more »

Classics teachers may enjoy sorting out history, speculation and legend in the following, from Renew America.   more »

BOXES full of Roman artifacts are available from The Beacon, to be loaned to schools.   more »

Selwyn Primary is one of a dozen state primary schools teaching Latin in Newham, east London. Hilary Koppel, G&T coordinator finds it invigorating. Jane Robinson, G&T coordinator in the borough, speaks about the success of the initiative.   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 »

Anthony Hodson has written three substantial Latin plays, which he has produced in a primary school, and are now on line.   more »

We can no longer dismiss Latin as a dead language. It's in the middle of a real revival, says Will Griffiths   more »

Let us be grateful for any publicity that Latin gets. Let us however take what Mount writes cum grano salis.   more »

PUPILS across west Cumbria can learn all they need to know about the Romans, from what they ate for lunch to what they used for loo roll, thanks to a new teaching aid from a Whitehaven museum.   more »

... we've reached the point when there's a case for celebrating Mass in Latin as the nearest thing to a common language ...   more »

It is a wonderful tour de force, well worth £14.99. You will enjoy reading it. You will be sorely tempted to share passages with your A level Latinists. You will be grateful to J.K. Rowling for subsidising this Latin version, and to Peter Needham for translating it.   more »

Wondered if you could help me. Am teaching A2 OCR Latin and struggling to find   more »

This arrived this morning. Can anyone help? "I 've got - from somewhere - "Katy Moe's Harry Potter Classics Quiz" ..."   more »

The page will be available for a week, but the link given here is to the current day's Life, so you may have to navigate from there.   more »

There's also the virtual invitation to any Classicist with the time and wit, to rush out a 'copycat title'. Why not?   more »

A Sunday Times tourist article about Roman Tarragona (which mixes up the Circus with the Amphitheatre) sent me googling the city.   more »

Michele Hanson Tuesday December 12, 2006 The Guardian    more »

Yer tiz   more »

But the title did set me wondering how these poets/versifiers treated the Christmas story.   more »

Latin is coming into some schools as part of the Gifted and Talented programme. Does every pupil have a fair chance to get on this programme and to have access to the new world that Latin opens up?   more »

On Friday 8th December, Boris Johnson came to talk on the value of Classics at Cheney School on behalf of the iris project.   more »

The Ancient Greeks really knew how to make a drama out of a crisis. There wasn't much time for navel gazing when the gods were around, meting out bloody justice, zooming in on human fallibilities. With the Ancients, far more comes out in the wash than you would ever have imagined. But a whole evening of it is like being trapped in the spin cycle.   more »

Then came last night. Sophocles was at last allowed to speak for himself.   more »

Surely a columnist can look up a dictionary to find out the Latin words abbreviated as i.e. and e.g.?   more »

MP Boris Johnson was cheered to the rafters when he held forth in an ancient language at an Oxford school.   more »

Comments may now be made anonymously, but will not appear until they have been moderated. Rest assured that any reasonable comments will be approved.   more »

Stay glued to your radio from 6.30 to 10.30 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday 9th December, to hear Sophocles' Theban plays   more »

Little or no controversy, and lots of praise for Latin, from Harry Mount himself (all positive - no side-swipes, except at governments who have 'drummed out' Latin), and from a number of enthusiasts, one of whom was not taught Latin but praises the benefits of what he has picked up 'from music and a teach-yourself book I once tried.'   more »

LEEDS is digging into its historical Roman roots for the inspiration for its new garden to be showcased at the Chelsea Flower Show next May.   more »

Today's Christmas is sometimes referred to as a consumerist orgy - an annual festival of unbridled commodity purchases aimed at expressing how much we care for others. But there are fundamental contradictions in the "tradition".   more »

Indeed, the young poet had barely passed his 26th birthday when Caesar's descendant, firmly and politely, suggested he should slit his wrists. But, as best we can judge, Lucan still cheerfully called his poem De Bello Civili, the unflattering term that Julius Caesar avoided for his own memoirs.   more »

I've just been sent an email consisting solely of a URL. I was about to delete it as spam when I noticed that the sender's email was from a school, so I followed it up and found a Latin teacher's reactions to a brush with the media.   more »

Teachers who use the For Teachers section of the ARLT website and who are teaching Cicero at A level will like to know that Peter Bird has contributed detailed notes on Pro Milone (the first selection).   more »

Too good to be true, of course.   more »

The minister wanted other schools to follow the example of those like Selwyn primary school, in Newham, east London, where gifted 11-year-olds have learned Latin and applied their knowledge from other lessons on ancient Greece to give a presentation on the influence of Greek civilisation on the Romans.   more »

How did I miss Mary Beard's entry on November 30th under the title 'Let them learn Latin'? It is not only worth reading itself, but has drawn a number of very interesting comments. Read it here.   more »

Two items relating to Boston, Mass. came this morning.   more »

I pick out two books recently published that may possibly be useful to teachers. The usual caveat: I haven't read them, and advise you to look out for reviews. What follows is from the publisher.   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 »

Pictures that might come in useful in Class Civ teaching, including a fishing boat and a shoal of varied types of fish   more »

“We have a tradition of singing choral music from the Catholic church,” said Dickens of the Christmas concert, “and a lot of it’s written based on the bible in Latin.”   more »

I give The Times' report below. The changes announced will clearly affect all secondary teachers, and it would be interesting to hear your reaction.   more »

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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 »

This replaces the picture posted a year or more ago.   more »