Omnibus lyceorum discipulis, linguae Latinae cultoribus, I V Certamen Iulianum proponitur, quod Idibus Martiis anno MMVIII apud Lyceum Romanum “Giulio Cesare” celebrabitur.   more »

Colleagues may wish to be informed that Chester City council, www.chester.gov.uk are arranging a Saturnalia in Chester   more »

Mary Beard's latest blog offering raises the old question of what lost Latin manuscripts you would like to be discovered - and at the moment the focus is on what might be found in Herculaneum.   more »

An email via the OCR Classics Community tells me that Oxford University Press is OCR's publishing partner.   more »

A controversy (I don't think it is a big one) about whether the motto about 'his dominion shall be from sea to sea' should be changed   more »

The deails and an application form are on line here.   more »

The East Anglian Daily Times has a long piece about Shakespeare's two plays in Colchester.   more »

The Times had a piece a couple of days ago about excavations to find a lost library in Herculaneum.   more »

There's a CD with Latin grammar songs advertised here. An article about a teacher who uses songs in his teaching is here.   more »

Angus Council has approved plans for a new Seaview Primary, which will be constructed in the grounds of the existing school. However, work will not be able to start until archaeologists have carried out an examination of the site.   more »

Children at St Mary's Lower School in Stotfold received a visit from group Legion 14 last week who go around schools teaching pupils about how the romans lived.   more »

There's a new paperback collection of criticism of Catullus published between 1950 and 2000 from OUP   more »

Interesting piece in the Los Angeles Times where Lefkowitz argues that monotheism is a bad thing, and that the Greek gods, who made things hard for humans, are more suitable for the modern world.   more »

You may be interested in my latest play - "the dulcifex" - which is now on the website at:   more »

"I don't think the Romans added much around here except a bit more Continental shopping," he says. "Pottery would have appeared in Malton market. But basically, the Roman occupation was the Iron Age continued."   more »

The California Catholic Daily tells us that a priest who wrote suggesting that few people attend the Latin Mass, and that they are elderly,   more »

A decade ago, only four pupils there were studying Latin and classics. This year, there are more than 100 taking exams in the classics department, which has two Latin teachers.   more »

Those recordings of the 2009-2010 set texts are now on line here.   more »

Revellers can look forward to swigging pints of Legions Ale and Gladiator Beer at the town's fifth annual beer festival.   more »

BUDDING archaeologists are invited to take part in a project which has already unearthed pre-Roman remains in Warwickshire.   more »

Mary Beard in the Guardian reviews Charlotte Higgins' Latin Love Lessons   more »

This BBC website illustrated article is a must for Asterix fans. An indication of the character's universal appeal is that all the comments on the article are enthusiastic - and correctly spelled! Is this a record?   more »

The approach of Halloween is the occasion for a Newswise piece on werewolves and ghosts in the ancient world.   more »

Emily Wilson’s book The Death of Socrates is the latest in Profile’s series reassessing historical moments   more »

When you take a school party to Italy you have to do all the obvious things - Forum, Colosseum, Vatican, Pompeii etc.   more »

Since my last visit to the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica some diligent people have grouped the entries by subject.   more »

I see from a picture in Atriades' blog that the Roman Baths in Bath now offer a children's audio tour. It looks as if it might enhance a school visit.   more »

Mary Beard reports on a slightly more grown-up version of Cambridge Latin Course Stage 10, the debate about whether the Greeks were better than the Romans. The standard of debate in Cheltenham may have been higher, but the result was the same.   more »

I was glad to see your ARLT posting about dictionaries. Perhaps you already know that Smith & Hall's English-Latin is at   more »

Did you catch this about Latin Lovers on Woman's Hour today? It's a short discussion (including Mary Beard) about Ovid , Catullus etc.,   more »

You may like to investigate Babylon.com's online and downloadable Latin dictionaries here.   more »

his is the Peter O'Toole mini-series from 1981.   more »

Our school has justy been awarded specialist language college status and I wondered if any fellow Classicists out there had experience of teaching classics in such an establishment and was willing to share ideas ?   more »

Thanks to Explorator for this link to Professor Martin Conde's photos of excavations in the Forum/Palatine areas of Rome.   more »

A registration on the ArLT website (welcome, Mark!) led me to the website of the Liberty Classical Academy in Maplewood, MN, and to the page which publishes Dorothy Sayers' Oxford speech called The Lost Tools of Learning.   more »

The CD of 2008-9 Latin verse prescriptions for the OCR exams read by ArLT members is now ready.   more »

The Times Literary Supplement has articles on Pompeii, Greek goddesses, Romanisation in Britain, the Oresteia, the Anabasis and more.   more »

Headteacher, Christine Thirwell said: "It really brings it to life for the children and makes it relevant to them."   more »

RESIDENTS are being asked to become temporary archaeologists by helping to search for Roman history at Wixford Lodge Farm.   more »

If you haven't explored the JACT website recently, you may not have found a page of Latin resources.   more »

Four-hundred-fifty marble, bronze, ceramic and silver Roman artifacts from 27 B.C. to the middle of the third century A. D. will be on display at the museum into January.   more »

We have teamed-up with the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham to offer SoGlos.com’s readers the chance to win one of two family tickets to see Horrible Histories when it comes to Gloucestershire in October.   more »

Invented by Emperor Augustus to raise funds for soldiers' pensions, inheritance tax has been used by the West to redistribute wealth ever since. It is one of the most ancient and widely adopted state levies on the individual.   more »

The first exhibition devoted entirely to Roman theatre has opened in the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.   more »

Our President is to meet OCR next week to discuss GCSE changes. She sends this message:   more »

I found this link on rogueclassicism, and love it:   more »

Lovers of Roman history have a treat in store in the Western Lake District this Autumn, with two of the area’s visitor attractions offering fabulous insights into the Roman occupation of this beautiful part of the country.   more »

A REPLICA Roman toilet created by a popular historian will take its place alongside ancient artifacts in a museum. The lavatory is the creation of Welwyn resident Tony Rook and will be in an exhibition called Gardez-Loo on Saturday October 13 at the Verulamium Museum in St Albans.   more »

A FEW years ago, the owner of a tiny flat in one of the labyrinthine back-streets of central Naples finally tired of losing tap-water through his constantly leaking pipes. So he did what any normal resident would do and dug underneath his home to investigate. But what he unearthed was something quite astonishing: not a network of gushing water pipes, but a gigantic proscenium arch - 82 feet high and 100 feet wide - in a theatre capable of holding an audience of seven thousand, built by the Emperor Nero in 64AD.   more »

Representatives of various Classics organisations this afternoon held their final preparation meeting in London for the stand at the Language Show.   more »

Nine centuries of the Roman stage are spotlighted in a new show opening next month on the biggest stage of them all, the Colosseum.   more »

Some figures for interest   more »

ARLT members will, I know, be very sorry to hear that John Sharwood Smith died on 28 August at the age of 88.   more »

Well, maybe my heading is a bit sweeping, but judge for yourself when you read this from the Oxford Mail.   more »