Arbeia Festival in August

Thanks to Brian Bishop for this:
Colleagues may be interested in the item in the latest Tyne & Wear Museums programme.
Arbeia Festival
Saturday, 18th August, 10.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Arbeia Roman Fort
Join Legio IV Hispana as they prepare and serve a traditional Roman banquet in the reconstructed Commanding Officer's house and have a go at some archery.
Charge: [...]

Roman perfumes

The Capitoline Museum has an exhibition of Roman perfumes. The website has a few photographs.

Mary Beard on Pompeii

Mary Beard on Pompeii on her Times Blog
I’m off to Los Angeles next week for my stint at the Getty Research Institute. The plan is to work on Pompeii.
First of all, I’m going to be taking a serious, hard look at the traces of religious activities that have come up from the excavations (what exactly [...]

Ancient history A-level faces axe – will you write in?

After this warning from JACT the news in today's Guardian didn't come as a big surprise.
“There is a major row about to erupt over the future of A Level Anc. History. It should make the TES this Friday and there is a press release going to all papers on the same day, sent by Peter [...]

Another 'first' Latin mass.

Another 'first' Latin mass.
State Journal

Tech help to save tongue derived from ancient Latin

Tech help to save tongue derived from ancient Latin
Geneva, March 28: Switzerland's 35,000 native speakers of Romansch, a language threatened by migration and local rivalries, hope 21st century technology will help save a tongue derived from ancient Latin.
Spurred by activists for one of the country's four official languages, Microsoft Corp has released a Romansch edition [...]

Report on the Praxiteles exhibition at the Louvre

From Bloomberg.com
Undressing Aphrodite: Louvre Tries to Find the Real Praxiteles
By Jorg von Uthmann
March 29 (Bloomberg) — Mighty Aphrodite, or Venus to the Romans, wasn't always nude. It was the Greek sculptor Praxiteles who first portrayed her without drapery — much to the dismay of his customer, the city of Kos.
Several versions of the lady can [...]

Re-enactment groups to replay the days of Romans

From Peterborough Today
Re-enactment groups to replay the days of Romans
By ET Staff
ROMANS, Vikings and medieval minstrels will re-enact Peterborough's past in the city's Cathedral Square thanks to a generous Lottery grant.
Peterborough Area Local History Forum has been given £9,585 to stage the Living History Day, which is due to take place in May, will see [...]

More on the Sicilian Latin news

And now for the news … in Latin
Listen here
John Hooper
Wednesday March 21, 2007
The Guardian
It is, famously, a dead language. But it seems that Latin is on the brink of an unlikely comeback. The conservative Pope Benedict XVI is poised to authorise wider use of the Latin mass. And, perhaps to ingratiate themselves with the boss, [...]

Some new books from OUP

Each time Oxford University Press sends its list of newly published Classical books I look through it to see which, if any, might be useful in school.
Most, I find, are likely to be of more interest to universities.
Still, teachers need to keep their minds alive, so here is my selection from the latest list. I [...]