Mary Beard's Top Ten Classical misconceptions

“Facts” people think they know about the Romans here.

Normal service will be resumed ….

When I returned from holiday something seemed to be wrong with the blogging server. Today I find that it's back to normal. Apologies for the hiatus, and, for a while, multiple copies of two posts.
While writing about blogs, we bid a regretful farewell to Adrian Murdoch, who wrote an interesting blog while writing a [...]

Roman re-enactment at Ham Hill in Somerset

From the Yeovil Express
The Romans are coming – again!
By Steve Sowden
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THE mighty Roman Army will be marching on Ham Hill once again next month.
The Roman occupation of what we now know as the country park near
Stoke-sub-Hamdon is part of the long and interesting history of Ham
Hill and this will be celebrated at a fayre on [...]

Dramatic photos from space of the terrible Greek fires

European Space Agency photo of the plume of smoke rising from the Peloponnese is here. (New York Times)
The ESA's own site with a different picture of the burnt areas is here
NASA has this pic:

BBC History Magazine and the Classics

The current BBC History Magazine, a holiday indulgence for me, has yielded a few items of Classical interest.
John Collis writes on the Celts, showing that they were suggested as Britain's original inhabitants by George Buchanan in the 16th century. Buchanan used language, and particularly place-names, as evidence.
In the centuries since, more work has been done [...]

The Romans in your town?

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to [...]

Arbeia had a cavalry unit – new discovery

From the 24 Hour Museum. Thanks to Explorator for the link.
Two new names can be added to the roll of Romans
who were stationed at Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields. Inscriptions
found at the site in the last two seasons of excavation were recently
deciphered by Dr Roger Tomlin, an expert on Roman inscriptions based at
Oxford University.

“Two [...]

The iris project to expand

A welcome update from Lorna Robinson:
The iris project is expanding its Latin-through-literacy pilot schemefrom one to sixteen schools in Hackney from this September. Usingliteracy lessons, children in these classes will be taught using anactivity-based course which delivers Latin using the myths of Ovid.The children's literacy skills will be assessed at the beginning andend of the [...]

Even Virgil penned political propaganda

Even Virgil penned political propaganda

Article Launched: 08/23/2007 02:46:31 PM PDT
from Redlands Daily Facts

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Aeneid 12 resources now on the website

Monica Swinburne made available at the ArLT Cambridge Summer School (INSET) her resources for teaching Aeneid 12, on the A level syllabus for the next two years.
She has now kindly offered these resources for the Teachers' Section of the ArLT website.http://www.arlt.co.uk/dhtml/latintests/vergil/aeneid12/indexpage.phpThis is accessible only to those who have registered on the site and have received [...]