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I enjoyed Boris Johnson

I found The Dream of Rome part 1 entertaining, and am looking forward to part 2 next Sunday.
Boris Johnson visited many of my favourite Roman sites, including the Forum Romanum and Palatine, Vaison, Arles, the Pont du Gard, Trier and the Saalburg, and chatted enthusiastically to a variety of people, fropm academics like Professor Wallace [...]

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Boris Johnson's Dream of Rome

I am about to watch the first of Boris Johnson's two BBC2 programmes on the Dream of Rome, and I find from Explorator (thanks once again, David Meadows) that Boris' book The Dream of Rome is reviewed in The Times here.
Interviewed in Radio Times, Boris said:

The fascinating thing was how they magically encouraged people [...]

Distance learning – one American experience

Two classes are being taught simultaneously by a teacher in a third school, in this Alabama project. I copy a few paragraphs below. The complete article can be found here. Head teachers may be impressed with the saving of money.

Bob Jones Principal Robby Parker said Wednesday that Riley should be impressed with the entire school, [...]

Get invloved with your local CA Branch

In attempting to reduce the piles of paper that threaten to suffocate visitors to my house I contemplated the Classical Association mailing, and wondered if I should start on the mammoth task of putting local CA branch meetings on the Classical Diary.
I decided that since my opposite number at CA has listed all the [...]

Getty Museum Classics section reopens

The two high points of my one visit to the USA (apart from seeing my daughter and granddaughter) were Universal Studios and the Getty Museum. Disneyland didn't come anywhere near these two.
In those days the whole Getty museum was housed in the replica Villa dei Papyri. Then they built a big new museum for most [...]

Chedworth Villa events programme

The National Trust 2006 information arrived today and includes a programme of events at Chedworth:

The Ides of March – murder at the villa
Sat 11 to Sun 12 March 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Can you solve the mysterious murder?
Plus £1.50 for each clue guide.

Fools Weekend
Sat 1 to Sun 2 April
Performances throughout the day.

Dark Age Warriors
Sun 30 [...]

Love songs for Latinists

Today's encyclical (see my last article) refers to the Song of Songs, a collection of love songs to be found in the Bible.
Latinists of limited experience might enjoy a brief extract. A class that has reached half way through Cambridge Latin book 1 ought to be able to tackle this. The Latin makes clear, as [...]

Deus caritas est

Today's papal encyclical on love is available here. I am indebted to Wikipedia for the link to the standard Latin version. Someone was working quickly!
I have not read it all, but I quote here some paragraphs that might hold the attention of teenagers, if you wanted to demonstrate Latin as a living language. The Pope [...]