A NEW exhibition at Tullie House reveals Carlisle’s rich history through objects from Roman and Viking times.   more »

Agamemnon essay titles, Medea questions, Hippolytus questions, Tacitus test, Themes in the Odyssey (7 pages), introduction to epic (3 pages), notes to Oedipus Tyrannus (24 pages), Odyssey worksheets with answers (36 pages), intro and notes to OT (11 pages) - these have all been submitted to the OCR Classics Community pages this week.   more »

Visitors to the For Teachers section of the ArLT website will find, under GCSE Classical Civilisation, a page for each topic in the syllabus, subdivided into sub-topics.   more »

HISTORY and the environment combine in today's five-mile walk from Melrose to Newstead.   more »

Rome may not have been built in a day, but here you can certainly learn a lot about it in significantly less time.   more »

Those interested in post-Classical Latin may like to read the Life of George Buchanan, who wrote much Latin poetry, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.   more »

One of the few academic departments dating to the college's founding in 1853, Monmouth's classics department has continued to thrive in recent years,   more »

The Carlisle Unearthed exhibition, which opens on Saturday and runs until January 20, covers nearly 2,000 years of the city’s history – from the Romans to the Viking and medieval eras.   more »

The Romans invented lots of things: straight roads, underfloor heating, excellent sewage systems. But more importantly than that, they invented romantic love.   more »

The Doctor arrives in Pompeii with his new assistant, Donna, the night before the famous Mount Vesuvius volcano erupts - but should they warn everyone?   more »

Colleagues, who might overlook the article in today's Education Guardian, because it relates to East Asian studies, might nonetheless have a second look: it contains some ideas for life after death for a a secondary school or university department.   more »

Colleagues for whom Latin is an ever ongoing language, may be interested to know that there is to be a workshop aimed at producing a collection of neo-Latin texts to be used in the teaching of post-medieval Latin.   more »

I'd never heard there was a national 'singing in the bath' event. anyway, this is from the North West Evening Mail   more »

"long on workmanlike scholarship but short on revelation"   more »

THE Romans marched through Middlewich again at the weekend 2,000 years after they first arrived.   more »

At midnight on Thursday, I lay on my back in Rome's Colosseum and looked at a pageant of stars above. Where the lions tore into gladiators and only a few metres from the cross marking the place of Saint Paul's crucifixion   more »

Centurion Gaius Titus Mestrius - David Marsden from Lincolnshire to his friends - let children try on Roman helmets and armour and even take cover behind a shield taller than they were at the army camp in Vines Park.   more »

A glimpse of the recording of Aeneid 12 yesterday.   more »

This may be viewed as a Google Doc here.   more »

Just to let you know that a group of ArLT members is to record   more »

A refreshing call for accuracy when making comparisons between the Romans and the modern world is here.   more »

Cartagena is holding ten days of events remembering the Romans and Carthaginians. The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, the country’s longest and most spectacular steam railway, is running Steam and Romans experiences this Autumn   more »

Latin texts half-day and reading competition in Manchester   more »

I am looking for an A2 tutor for my son who needs to resit.   more »

I reproduce the Guardian piece linked in the last post.   more »

Just a couple of news pieces on the iris project's work in Hackney schools   more »

Evan Millner, who runs the Latinum Podcast site, has sent this cheering piece of news:   more »

Israeli archaeologists have stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans 2,000 years ago – a subterranean drainage channel used by Jews to escape from the city's conquerors.   more »

Kay and Grady Warren epitomize enduring love in their marriage of 39 years, and in their shared profession — teaching Latin to high school students.   more »

You might be interested in the following event in York and to receive updates from York Tourism.   more »

Review from the Telegraph here. (Have I posted this before?)   more »

It might amuse you and your class to spot the mistranslation (it's a subjunctive, silly) and the misinterpretation (up to you to spot it) ...   more »

I enjoyed reading her blog and am sorry that it has come to an end.   more »

After a hunt with the likes of Warner Brothers, Universal and Working Title, Scott Rudin has nabbed the screen rights to I, Claudius, the historical novel by Robert Graves.   more »

Caesar was certainly no servile copier, and from his own observations, and from the material remains of the people whom he was describing, we can piece together a picture of a society which in many other respects was not all that far behind his own.   more »

Archaeologist, broadcaster and writer Julian Richards is bringing Hadrian's Wall to the Marlow Archaeological Society - from the Romans to the 'wretched Brits'.   more »

Rather than the random gatherings of rudimentary thatched huts illustrated in the Asterix books, first published in 1961, archaeologists now believe the Gauls lived in elegant buildings with tiled roofs, laid out in towns with public squares or forums.   more »

The fourth edition of iris magazine is out on 3rd September and available to order now.   more »