Latin works well with children who are not strong academically, he said. “It’s very organized, very transparent,” he said. “There’s a rule for everything.”   more »

Unfortunately she has entered into the elitist world of Harry Mount, and chooses to talk, not just to the author, but also to a teacher from St Francis College, Letchworth, one of the top achieving schools in The Times list, who turns up her nose at Latin as it is taught to the majority of Latin students in the country.   more »

Now an initiative comes from the Cambridge Classics Project (do these folk never take a break?) to devise and produce a complete Class Civ course for British schools.   more »

An article in The Herald about growth in interest in Latin in Great Britain   more »

There are so many articles these days coming out of America comparing the present state of the American project with the later years of the Roman Empire that I normally don't trouble this blog's readers with them. This one, however, begins the comparison with a lament over an alleged fall in educational standards, so you might find it of interest.   more »

An optimist, listing for me the reasons that the deplorable state of the world is not quite as bad as we think, cited, as one of them, ‘the Latin revival’. Oh, is there one? I haven’t heard anyone saying anything in Latin recently, have you?   more »

Will Griffiths offers to send a DVD on request. Revised broadcast dates as well.   more »

Excitement this morning when the postman left an unexpected parcel, which turned out to be Harrius Potter et camera secretorum, due to be published in January.   more »

Eton College is leading a rebellion that could result in it dropping A levels in favour of an alternative examination system with no coursework and tougher questions.   more »

An invitation to subscribe to a short book commemorating the 300th anniversary of the battle of Ramillies, 1706   more »

Visitors to the Latin and Greek for All stand at the Language Show went away with a goody bag including a DVD of a Teachers' TV programme yet to be broadcast.   more »

This Tuesday 21st November at midnight you can see (or probably record is more likely) a programme on a visit to the British Museum to study the Ancient Greeks, and another on following up with cross-curricular activities.   more »

Cartledge is one of the world's acknowledged experts on Sparta, and his understanding of that grim warrior people - the samurai of their day, he suggests - is impressive. He vividly reconstructs their finest hour   more »

A little while ago on your ARLT blog, you mentioned that Harry Mount was writing some articles on Latin in one of the Sunday papers (was it the Sunday Telegraph?) I’m just writing to mention that he also has a book out..   more »

Last March at the Refresher Day I came across David Carter's Workbooks for Latin set texts, and posted a recommendation here.

Now David Carter has produced several more, and has emailed me about them.   more »

If you live in the West Country, like me, you will be interested in Mary Beard's words about train fares. Wherever you live (if it's in Channel 4 land) you will be interested in her damning judgement on 'Codex', in which the normally estimable Tony Robinson is, apparently, landed with a bummer of a quiz show.   more »

"The Roman rite has Latin as its official language," he said. The great religions of the world all "hold on" to their founding languages: Judaism to Hebrew and Aramaic, Islam to Arabic, Hindu to Sanskrit and Buddhism to Pali, he said.   more »

Can't remember if I've mentioned the site www.latinandgreekforall.co.uk . It has been set up to accompany the stand at the Language Show, and at first has just the text of the handouts from the Show. Eventually, however, the plan is to make it a comprehensive guide to all the ways of learning Latin and Greek in the UK.   more »

I don't usually pass on news of archaeological finds unless one can take a class to visit them, but this piece on an almost complete ship's cargo with 1,300 amphorae is interesting for the reference to fish sauce.   more »

I haven't read Peter Jones' Spectator pieces for some time (sorry, Peter) so catching up with the latest batch was a treat.   more »

We shall see the Battle of Philippi, it seems.   more »

This email from Will Griffiths pleased me a lot, and I'm sure he's over the moon.   more »

Older pupils could read this. It's a textbook case. The archaeologist's reason for not wanting to excavate is interesting.   more »

Brian Bishop emailed me another couple of photos and told me to do what I liked with them, so I made this brief video.   more »

I went to my parish church this morning, armed with flyers advertising the next of our monthly concerts, only to find a class of 18 University of the Third Age (U3A) members acting out the trial of Hermogenes, with a retired lawyer taking the part of iudex.   more »

Archaeologists excavating ancient graves in western Sweden have found shards from ceramic vessels made in the Roman Empire, in a find that could challenge assumptions about contacts between people in Sweden and the Romans.   more »

You will see from the following that Dr. Elspeth King has asked me to tell others about the George Buchanan exhibition and programme. I am sure that it will be of interest to members of the Association foR Latin Teaching.   more »

"Imagine no tomatoes in Mediterranean foods. Imagine no potatoes, no corn or no chocolate, and little sugar. Sugar cane was not grown in Egypt until the first century A.D. It was imported from India.”   more »

In the preparations for the Language Show, people came up with all kinds of goodies, including this website.   more »

Er ... that's it, really. Watch it!   more »

We tried to get ahead with the folders, but it was sometimes a close thing, as the stand began to run out.   more »

A few pictures of the work done by Anna, from JACT, and Will, from the Cambridge Schools Classics Project in setting up the stand at Olympia.   more »

Robert Fagles, a retired professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, feels he has come to know the poet Virgil as well as anyone in history after spending 10 years translating his epic, The Aeneid.   more »

A 6 minute video of the stall at The Language Show in Olympia   more »

Only a mistake in a local brochure.   more »

And when it came to swaying elections, the Roman "ad men" used walls, creating graffiti as well as paintings and formal signs. The remains of Pompeii, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., provide us with examples of Roman political advertising copy.   more »

Just for amusement. And don't worry about the shaky Latin. The English is shaky too. Just look at the first suggestion, in both languages.   more »

Latin might be stagnant in some parts of the world, but the Indian Hill middle school and high school embrace it.   more »

I am going to relocate some popular pictures from the blog to Photobucket, to economise on this blog's storage space and bandwidth use, both of which cost the ARLT. I apologise for any inconvenience.   more »