Mulri-storey car park versus Roman wall – who wins?

As it's Germany, the Roman wall wins. This tourist newspaper story came my way when I was in Bingen.

Roman fort wall is new park feature
Important Boppard finds from Roman times feature in a new archaeological park in the town.
Dominating the site and the top of Kirchgasse is a massive fortress curtain wall, some 60 metres [...]

Latin GCSE at 80

Look what the Romans have done for her
From News Shopper
PROBABLY the Bexley borough's oldest GCSE achiever was Mollie Hills. Aged 80, she lives in Welling and has just achieved a C grade in GCSE Latin.
Mrs Hills told News Shopper she had decided to take the subject because she has always been interested in the Romans.
Orginally [...]

Numbers taking Classical GCSEs and A levels are up on last year

According to the Times, 16,305 UK cendidates took Classical subjects at GCSE this year. Last year there were 15,685.
The Times listing does not list Latin, Greek and Classical Civ separately.
At A level there were 6186 cendidates this year, up on last year's 5967.
Compare numbers taking French GCSE: 2006 – 236,189 (2005 – [...]

Pictures of the Parthenon triglyphs and metopes

Dorothy King (PhDiva) has three photos of Parthenon details, which will be useful for the study of building methods.

What's in the latest <i>Britannia</i>?

A nice rumination on the latest edition of 'Britannia' from Borders Today
One of my treats is the annual thump on the mat of the exceedingly learned journal Britannia, the harvest of scholarship of studies of our Roman past in Britain.
By excavation of sites and refining understanding of texts we continue to be able to piece [...]

Astronomy and Greek mythology

A pleasant retelling of a myth in Record on Line.
COSMIC CALENDAR: Matchmaker dolphin swimming in the sky
By Jim McKeegan
August 27, 2006
Many stories about the stars come to us from classical mythology.
Unfortunately, those Greeks and Romans liked the kind of R-rated tales better left untold in family newspapers! But here's a story that's definitely no worse [...]

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Holly Colvin, cricket whizz-kid and Latinist

From Daily Mail, August 24, 2006. (The paper was lying on a seat in the coach from Gatwick – my excise for reading this paper!)
The youngest cricketer – male or female – to play a test match for England has notched up 10 A*s in her GCSEs and an A at AS-Level.
Holly Colvin, 16, takes [...]

An A level Latinist writes to the Daily Mail

I am disgusted that people think all you have to do is tick boxes to get an A grade. The night before my Latin exam, I wasn't practising my ticks – I was trying to memorise Horace's first 12 Odes. I would like to see A-level critics take these tick box exams and get straight [...]

'Crunchy A levels please' – Cambridge University

The Times reports a universities' preference for real A levels:
Students told to ditch 'soft option' A levels
By Alexandra Blair, Education Correspondent
LEADING universities are warning teenagers that they will not gain admission if they study “soft” A levels in the sixth form.
The universities are insisting that pupils take traditional subjects if they want to be considered [...]