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 »