You may have had the experience I've had on the Acropolis of talking to your group of students, on their wavelength, only to be interrupted by an official guide who tells you it's illegal to do your own guiding. You, having studied the buildings with your students, will make a much more effective guide for them, but you can't do it.   more »

NumisNews has an article on the Romans' involvement with Dacia and what happened after the fragmentation of the Empire.   more »

Jamie Keller started teaching Latin at Lenox Memorial High School 20 years ago. It was a very part-time job: one class, eight students. She has since built the program to 60 students, with a biennial trip to Rome and visits from Italian student groups on alternate years.   more »

After setting up a number of successful projects to teach children in state schools, Dr Lorna Robinson, of Franklin Road, has decided to bring the language to adults as well.   more »

MEMBERS of Stow Youth Centre had a unique insight into their Roman ancestry when they took part in a mosaic workshop at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester recently.   more »

After defeating the last queen of Egypt, Julius Caesar's adopted son was determined to destroy her reputation. He smashed the images made to glorify her and ensured his pocket historians cast her as a greedy, incestuous, adulterous whore who used her foreign, feminine wiles to emasculate the Roman Empire.   more »

It was occasioned by the decision to abolish oral exams in modern languages, and is headed 'Never say Latin in the quango tango'.   more »

There's an interesting-looking scholarly paper on Julia Felix and her Pompeii property   more »

Not sure who sent this, but at first glance it looks promising ...   more »

"An example of present-day literary writing and a reminder of a guiding light of modern Latinity."   more »

Qui mille Euronibus eget nec non iter in Italiam facere vult, consideret, utrum certamini adsit.   more »

The IndyStar reviews a book that inhabits Caroline Lawrence territory.   more »

Although not well known in this country, he was extremely influential in Latin gatherings and publications on the Continent.   more »

Colleagues might wish to listen to or even download this hour on Ovid in French for the week   more »

You might like to see how another school does it.   more »

Led by Bob Lister, to discuss the ways in which we can identify the more able students in Classics and find methods for providing challenges for them.   more »

During the Imperial period Roman soldiers devised unique commemoration practices to ensure a lasting posthumous memory.   more »

Now it's in paperback for £25 which is reasonable for 682 pages.   more »

After listening to local residents and community groups, South Tyneside councillors have decided not to go ahead with a proposal to develop the centre for Arbeia Roman fort on the Lawe Top at South Shields.   more »

For the most part the collapse of the Roman empire was not a collapse of an empire, but the slow integration of Germanic custom with Roman culture. This means the collapse of the Roman empire was a transfer of power from one ruling party to another.   more »

Erupting in a thunder of hooves and drums, spears held aloft, the marauding army darkened the sky with their arrows.   more »

Mary's Beard's recent blog in entertaining.   more »

Following on from the unprecedented success of 'The First Emperor', the British Museum's major exhibition for 2008 will focus on another great world leader, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, from 24 July to 26 October 2008.   more »

A large collection of Roman artefacts is to go on public display at a city museum for the first time in the summer - 30 years after they were first dug up by an amateur archaeologist.   more »

May I draw your attention to a forthcoming INSET day for A level Ancient History organized by JACT.   more »

Arguably the biggest film ever made direct for British Television, with over 260 CGI shots in sixty minutes, 'Attila the Hun' recreates the lost world of Late Antiquity when Attila The Hun terrorised the Roman empire in its dying days.   more »

Dr Nick Summerton, GP and advisor to the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has written a book "Medicine and Health in Roman Britain".   more »

Under the leadership of Anne Dicks, Malvern St James is hosting a second European Latin competition. If you look at the website...   more »

On the topic of links for GCSE and A level (Latin and Classical Civilisation), teachers may like to know that we have categorised over 1,500 links on the CSCP website   more »

Now available: full details of and booking form for the A Level Classical Civilisation INSET weekend for teachers   more »

Wilf O'Neill writes: I've added a new 'GCSE and A Level' category to the Links on Resources for Classics and moved the relevant links there.   more »

Today's valentines focus on sharing, caring, love and friendship. The beloved is portrayed as gentle, sensitive, tender and compassionate, says Gold. The ancient Romans had quite a different take on love.   more »

Britain's history is rich in fiery queens, and the first such heroine, tall with red hair down to her waist, commanding and brave, was Boadicea, warrior leader of the ancient Britons.   more »

A temporary exhibition – featuring Roman armour, mosaics, jewellery and clothing – is on display at the museum on Salter Row, which is also hosting several historic sessions through February and March.   more »

Turkish archaeologists unearthed a 2000-year-old lighthouse at the ancient Roman port of Patara, near southern town of Kas, Antalya, discovering probably the oldest such structure that managed to remain intact.   more »

Caroline Lawrence, 53, has written 14 novels about ancient Rome, which have been made into the BBC's most expensive children's TV series (currently being repeated on CBBC on Saturdays at 2pm). The second series of The Roman Mysteries will be transmitted in spring 2008.   more »

The Independent's guide to degree courses includes this page on Classical subjects.   more »

But now a vast new exhibition in Venice's most important museum, Palazzo Grassi, at the opposite end of Piazza San Marco from the Duomo, asks us to look at the cataclysmic end through a new pair of spectacles.   more »

We are an 11-18 girls' school in Hertfordshire, with a lovely position to offer in terms of a part-time Latin post from September.   more »

Atriades has added a large number of links under topics like Pompeii, Roman architecture, Roman army, Roman Britain, Roman dinner parties etc etc etc. There are also Greek links.   more »

The demand for Latin teachers in schools is going up, while the supply is going down. "Universities aren't producing enough, so we're all scrabbling around for the same people," says Andrew Hutchinson, headteacher at Parkside Community College in Cambridge - a comprehensive serving the centre of the city.   more »

Preparations are underway for the JACT Class. Civ. INSET weekend to take place at the Classics Centre, University of Oxford on Saturday 5th - Sunday 6th July.   more »

The active use of Latin in speaking and writing, in addition to the reading of Latin texts, is one of the cornerstones of this sequence in Latin Studies.   more »

I've just heard a trailer for Sunday 8 p.m.   more »

English is not the first language to have had the world at its feet. Latin was once the global lingua franca, and the very currents that bore it to the fore bore it away. The same thing could happen - easily - with English.   more »

We are so used to the white purity of ancient marble sculptures that we imagine the Greeks and Romans felt the same: certainly the artists and patrons of the Renaissance and later centuries believed that white was right. New research using strong raking light sources and beams of ultraviolet light has shown, however, that many Classical statues were gaudily painted in a plethora of colours.   more »

Worth a look if you are teaching Greek architecture.   more »

The magazine includes articles, interviews, news, artwork, fiction, reviews, outreach schemes and ideas, all presented in exciting, modern and eclectic ways. This issue's contents are based on the theme of poetry and craft, and include:   more »

Helen Dunmore was also on the Radio 4 book programme yesterday. She is aware of the scholarly doubts about constructing history from the poems, but chooses to do that all the same - as we all do when teaching Catullus to Year 11, I suspect.   more »

The first activity to take place during the school break is part of the Museum’s ‘Archaeology Seminars’, and will look at the Romans in the Cotswolds. It is aimed at 9-12 year olds   more »

But despite its sterling cast, this is not as fun as the last one, Mission Cleopatra.   more »

Volunteers from Wigan Archaeological Society performed a dig at St William's Catholic Primary School's playing field, in Ince Green Lane, to find evidence of a Roman road that linked Wigan and Manchester.   more »