View Article  A very Merry Christmas to all my readers
That's it, really. Perhaps I'll just say it a little bigger:   more »
View Article  Financial Times reviews Ad Infinitum
A few years ago the study of Latin appeared to be in terminal decline, owing perhaps to its negative association with rod-backed private education. But there are signs that it is reviving, and as Nicholas Ostler remarks in the preface to Ad Infinitum, “now is the time for a book about Latin”.   more »
View Article  More on the villas in Rome
Experiencing the archaeological site, which opens to the public on Saturday, is a bit like passing through a classically themed amusement park. Lasting roughly a half-hour, the computer-generated sound-and-light show offers plenty of opportunities to ooh and aah as the villas take physical form.   more »
View Article  Latin hymns sung in masses in Pampanga
A set of Latin hymns sung during the nine-day Christmas Masses, the pastorella has not been heard in many Pampanga towns for 40 years after Vatican II prescribed the use of local languages in religious rites.   more »