"Facts" people think they know about the Romans here.   more »

When I returned from holiday something seemed to be wrong with the blogging server.   more »

THE mighty Roman Army will be marching on Ham Hill once again next month.   more »

European Space Agency photo of the plume of smoke rising from the Peloponnese is here.   more »

The current BBC History Magazine, a holiday indulgence for me, has yielded a few items of Classical interest.   more »

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to your local paper?   more »

Two new names can be added to the roll of Romans who were stationed at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields. Inscriptions found at the site in the last two seasons of excavation were recently deciphered by Dr Roger Tomlin, an expert on Roman inscriptions based at Oxford University.   more »

A welcome update from Lorna Robinson:   more »

A nice survey of Vergil and the Aeneid by Gregory Elder. Why the Gate of Horn in Book 6? Here is a suggested reason.   more »

Monica Swinburne made available at the ArLT Cambridge Summer School (INSET) her resources for teaching Aeneid 12, on the A level syllabus for the next two years. She has now kindly offered these resources for the Teachers' Section of the ArLT website.   more »

Having read so many American writers debating whether the USA is the new Roman Empire, it makes a change to hear something from an Arab source:   more »

Plums grow on trees   more »

This is old news, but brought out again because of the Elvis anniversary.   more »

He said they were weak jokes ....   more »

Telegraph review, with clip, here.   more »

I thought you might like to know that I have recently re-vamped my website of translations into Latin ( http://www.phaselus.org.uk ). It is now, I hope, faster and more convenient than before; it has a good few minor textual changes, largely as the result of comments received by e-mail.   more »

Washington Latin, a charter school with a classics-based curriculum that attracted parents in droves when it opened last year, is embroiled in turmoil over a plan to accept more students and move from its Upper Northwest location to downtown Washington.   more »

To help prepare actors in October's Medea, James Diggle and Anthony Bowen have recorded long extracts from the play, which Greek teachers will find useful.   more »

...but here's a slide show to watch in an odd moment.   more »

I'm not going to pass on any more of this year's newspaper reports of local successes in the National Latin Exam. Let this one be a reminder of the publicity that US Classics departments achieve through this exam.   more »

A LONG-awaited animated movie and a much fussed-over book prodded me towards an interest in Latin. It began with the discovery of two mottos: Corruptus in extremis and Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus.   more »