Thanks to Rogue Classicism for finding this YouTube performance.   more »

I haven't been able to see it (you need the ipix plugin) but apparently there's a good virtual tour of Masada on this site.   more »

A colleague emailed me the other Saturday morning to tip me off about an interview with the Margaret-Thatcher-loving, tv-historian Dr David Starkey, in the back of the Guardian’s Guide section. Starkey, it turns out, is a real Roman hater (odd that – I’d have predicted the reverse). “What did the Romans ever do for us?” asked the interviewer:   more »

A classics project piloted in two east London schools has now been extended to cover about 20 - including one of the capital's newest city academies. Dr Lorna Richardson, founder of the Iris Project, which is backed by Cambridge University, said pupils' literacy levels could be improved if they studied Latin   more »