Steven Jenkin of Francis Holland School has contacted us to tell about his website. It is all to the good to have another place to share teaching resources.   more »

Latin is alive and well at Madeira High School, and now they have the trophy to prove it.   more »

Preparations are now apace for our TLS debate in Oxford tomorrow: would you accept a dinner invitation with Socrates?   more »

A paper given to the Classical Association conference in Liverpool by Professor Alessandro Barchiesi of Verona and Siena Universities discusses how Romans invented the notion of comprising the whole world in their single city.   more »

Robert Fagles, 74, a Princeton University professor whose translations of the three great epics of the classical world -- "The Iliad," "The Odyssey" and "The Aeneid" -- have been recognized as enduring literary works in their own right, died March 26 of prostate cancer at his home in Princeton, N.J.   more »

The remains of a Roman roundhouse, thought to date back to the second century, were discovered as United Utilities were working on a new pipeline project, on grazing land near Garstang Road East.   more »

On Saturday April 12, Roman legionnaires, costumed craftworkers and a themed market will take over the town’s Carlton Street for the historical spectacular.   more »

While Gloucester hosts a Dr Who convention in June celebrating the hit BBC TV time traveller series, hundreds of re-enactors will transform the city for the Through The Ages Live festival on April 19-20.   more »

I thought you would like to know that preparations for the second European 6th Form CICERO competition (to be held at Malvern St James on April 18th) are well under way. We are delighted with the number of entrants, some of whom will be travelling quite a distance to get to us.   more »

June begins to get busy. August is well peppered with dates. July is as crowded as can be.   more »

Grammar sheets can be downloaded from the JACT Latin Summer School notice.   more »

quamquam omnibus in rebus Mariam Barbam nostram valde amamus, in permultis et laudamus...   more »

In case you haven't signed up for the Sunday 'Explorator' round-up of Classical (and much more) news links, here are three of today's.   more »

Something for those teaching Alexandria in the Cambridge Latin Course. Al-Ahram Weekly reports that a couple of painted tombs are again open to tourists:   more »

AN historian has succeeded where Time Team failed... to prove a Cheshire village was once home to the Roman army.   more »

I haven't tried to follow this code, but others may find this interesting:   more »

The OCR exam board is devising the ancient history GCSE to cater for a surge in interest in the Romans and ancient Greeks.   more »

Click the picture to see three pictures - two of the reconstruction, and the other of the site.   more »

The Roman burial ground found in Gloucestershire is set to be revealed. More than 100 bodies, many with their heads placed at their feet, were found at the Hanson gravel quarry at Horcott, near Fairford, in May 2006.   more »

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Father Foster, the Vatican Latinist, talks about the problems of expressing modern concepts in Latin.   more »

I've made a podcast of chapters 15-16 of Pro Roscio   more »

A conference on teaching Classics, being held in Venice: Meeting the Challenge: Bringing Classical Texts to Life in the Classroom.   more »

Mary Beard has blogged on the newly-opened House of Augustus in Rome. As you would expect, she is rather more informative than the Daily Mail on Augustus and his modest taste in dwellings. Worth a look.   more »

Despite numerous digs and excavations across the region over the past two centuries, the huge site, hidden deep in woods at Bedford Purlieus, had miraculously gone unnoticed.   more »

Even among the conjugations and derivations, time still remains for related stories about his past in Scotland and little tidbits about the mystery of Latin.   more »

On Sunday following decades of painstaking restoration, the frescoes in vivid shades of blue, red and ochre went on public show for the first time since they were painted in about 30BC.   more »

The remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman high street have been found beneath Cirencester's historic Corn Hall. Archaeologists believe they have discovered shop walls, the remains of a baker's oven and numerous Roman artefacts.   more »

What did the Romans ever do for us? They founded many of the towns and cities expected to weather the current market downturn, for a start   more »

John Whelpton, whose list of Classical websites I mentioned recently, has sent me another interesting email, part of which I pass on:   more »

Podcasts by Clive Madel of Camden School for Girls are available   more »

It is interesting to compare this review with the clutch of American reviews that I read last year.   more »

The site has produced large amounts of Roman finds over the last 100 years. We have just carried out excavations on the cemetery which has 400 graves from the early 1st Century to the early 4th.   more »

Archaeologists have found what they describe as a remarkable Iron Age waterhole on the site of an extension to York University. The university's archaeology department plans more digs at the site, which also contains an important Roman building.   more »

A 70 page report giving the results of a survey of all secondary schools in the UK has been published by the Cambridge Schools Classics Project.   more »

A report in The Canadian Press says that entry to the Forum will no longer be free.   more »

A ROMAN battle which brought a new emperor to power will be played out in miniature at Pontefract Museum on Saturday.   more »

John Whelpton has collected a large number of sites which you may find useful, and has kindly shared them.   more »

OUP has published a collection of essays on Seneca. Also there is an independently produced GCSE Latin Resource Book.   more »

This is just floating an idea. The decision of QCA that set texts in Latin and Greek AS and A2 will be different means that many schools with small Sixth Form groups will no longer be able to teach set texts to both Upper and Lower Sixth students in the same class.   more »

I've just had an email from someone teaching in an international college in this country which made me sit up and raise a silent cheer:   more »

Was it the same advertising genius that decided to call the Royal Mail 'Consignia' that has now decided to ditch the symbol of our nation, given us by the Romans?   more »

The Latin play that St. Olaf College will present this year has a plot full of elements many fun-loving young people can relate to: a house party, a frivolous use of money and a little fibbing to a parent.   more »

Greek and Latin Voices Mon-Thurs 3-6 March 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3) Series exploring the work of Euripides.   more »

What have the frenzied wine-worshipping rituals of Greek mythology got to do with the intricacies of the human brain? A surprising amount, argues neuroscientist Susan Greenfield   more »

This mum's account of taking her own children to Rome rings painful bells - not only did I have similar problems with my own children, but also with school trips:   more »

An appeal by The Times apparently saved some mosaics on the Isle of Wight, and now Barry Cunliffe wants to excavate the villa.   more »