Some lectures and stuff

Rogue Classicism has notices of some UK seminars and lectures that might interest teachers.
There's an Oxford day on June 2nd in honour of Oliver Lyne, consisting of lectures on Latin poetry. Rogue Classicism has the details here.
There is also the termly programme of Durham Seminars. Three of them have already taken place, but there are [...]

A comparison chart of many Latin courses

This comparison chart from a Christian home-schooling site shows some of the range of courses available in the USA.
There are clearly many courses being written, with names like 'Latin's not so tough', 'Latina Christiana', 'Powerglide Children's Latin', and so on. Two familiar names are included, Minimus ('Secular but has
Christian references') and Ecce Romani. Notably absent [...]

A learned woman is today's ODNB life

Bathsua Makin is today's Life at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
She knew Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, French, and German, with some Syriac, and wrote poems in most of these languages.
By the way, if you have a public library membership in the UK, you can very likely access the full ODNB on line using [...]

'Getting Started with Latin' book.

William Linney has emailed ArLT about a book he has written to help home-schoolers learn Latin. He has an extensive website at http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/ where you can read sample pages. He has mp3s of the text for download, in Classical pronunciation now, and with ecclesiastical pronunciation coming, for the sake of Roman Catholic parents who prefer [...]

Has anyone recorded the Timewatch programme on Hadrian's Wall?

This email came yesterday from Helen Forte, illustrator of the Minimus books:
I missed the BBC Timewatch programme on Friday, and I gather from Barbara Bell that it was really good (and relevant to all my Minimus teaching). Where do you think I might find a recording, DVD or video? Could you put a plea [...]

ArLT founder WHD Rouse on the current controversy

As a work of pietas towards ArLT founder WHD Rouse, I began today to scan his 1925 book, Latin on the Direct Method, for inclusion in the ArLT website.
I found to my great surprise that he speaks powerfully to the present newspaper controversy about standards in Latin teaching.
Do read the first chapter here.
Let me [...]

Gauls invade Rome again – for Rugby

If your Latin class includes Rugby enthusiasts, this could be one for the notice board.
Planet Rugby likens the Six Nations Rugby tournament to the Roman games, or various invasions, with references to Brennus and Genseric:
Romans get a rugby reminder
Sunday 28th January 2007
The Italian Rugby Federation has embarked on a campaign of making Romans aware of [...]

A choirmaster's view of Latin

A piece about Verdi's Requiem in the Boston Globe includes a comment on what it is like to sing in Latin.
In keeping with the amateur group's tradition of tackling sizeable challenges, the 90-minute masterpiece of virtuoso singing and orchestral playing will be sung in Latin. “It's actually a fairly easy language,” said the group's music [...]

Pliny and Trajan – Father Foster's broadcast

You may know that the Vatican Latinist Reginald Foster does a brief weekly broadcast about things Latin. On January 19th he spoke about Pliny, Tacitus and Trajan, particularly Pliny's letter about dealing with Christians and the Emperor's reply. This, and the archive of broadcasts going back at least to 2005 can be found here.

Purge of ARLT database

Each time a Newsletter goes out to those who have registered on the ARLT website, a large number of emails comes back undelivered.
This time I have gone through the two databases, registrations for the For Teachers section, and requests to be kept informed about ARLT, and removed entries for all those whose newsletter was undeliverable.
If [...]