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Teachers' TV Associates now launched

From 13 September anyone working in a school in England can sign up online at www.teachers.tv/associates to become a Teachers’ TV Associate.
Teachers’ TV Associates enjoy a range of benefits and opportunities including…

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Herculaneum enthusiasts step this way!

Another link from Explorator that may be useful in teaching Pompeii is this:
http://www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/index.html
It leads to the site of the Friends of Herculaneum Society, and you can print out the first three issues of Herculaneum Archaeology.

Claimed to be the first Roman naval officer image

This is from ANSA.it and was reported by David Meadows in today's Explorator email.
Ravenna site yields first-ever image of imperial officer (ANSA) – Classe, September 20 – The first-ever image of a soldier in the Ancient Roman navy has surfaced at a major imperial naval base at Ravenna .
The armour-clad, weapon-bearing soldier was [...]

I hate spamming engines!

Yesterday was a quiet day on the blog. There were fewer than 1000 visitors, which is unusual these days. So I scanned through the list of referrers, to see where the visitors had come from.
Out of 814 visitors, the vast majority were bona fide people using Google to find information of all kinds. Instructions [...]

A hard day in the recording studio

Five ARLT members gathered yesterday in Loughborough to record Latin and Greek texts set for the current year's A level and GCSE exams.
We came from as far away as Winchester (that was Roger Davies), and met at the parental home of Richard Dawkins, who works for the BBC in London and is a wizard with [...]

Biography of a Classicist is today's DNB offering

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which is available online for a large subscription, publishes one life per day for the public, and makes one week's lives openly available. You can even get the 'Life of the Day' sent to you by email, free.
With that introduction, you may like to read Jane Harrison's life today [...]

GCSE results show that the top schools teach Latin

Just as with the A level results, so with the GCSE results as analysed by The Times, the message is that the top schools teach Latin.
93 of the first 100 in the Times list have Classics departments. I give the top 25, of which 24 teach Latin. I have added an L to the 24, [...]

If you really want to see ancient Athens, use Linux

Teetering on the brink of ditching Windows in favour of Linux, I was interested in a report (via Explorator – thanks David Meadows) about a new virtual reality tour of the Agora. I give the technical stuff in case you, gentle reader, can make head or tail of it, and then ease into the practicalities [...]

Three million mosaic pieces make Alexander replica for Pompeii

'Explorator' has arrived, with its weekly cargo of archaeological and other news, including this:

'BATTLE OF ALEXANDER' MOSAIC BACK IN POMPEII EXCAVATIONS

(AGI) – Naples, Italy, Aug 31 – One of the most famous mosaics found in the Pompeii excavations, the one depicting the 'Battle of Alexander', is back, though as a copy, in its place of [...]

New move by the Pope concerning the Latin Mass

August 29, 2005
Pope opens talks with Latin Mass renegades
From Richard Owen in Rome
POPE BENEDICT XVI, who reached out to Muslims and Jews last week on his first trip to his native Germany since his election, is preparing to mend an enduring schism within the Roman Catholic Church.
Vatican sources say that the Pope is planning to [...]