Certamen Iulianum

Horatius tibi, linguae Latinae cultori, s. p.
d.
 
Diuturnum silentium longo post tempore, tua
fisus comitate atque benignitate, praeclarum ob inceptum, quo nullum linguae
litterarumque Latinarum cultoribus nec potius nec praestantius, nunc demum
rumpere ualet ac iuuat. Ideo habe me excusatum, si aliquod temporis spatium
tibi auferre audeo.
Cum autem nonnullis e [...]

Saturnalia in Chester

From Brian Bishop:

Colleagues may wish to be informed that Chester City council,www.chester.gov.uk are arranging a Saturnalia in Chester on Thursday, 20thDecember at 7p.m.

Deva Victrix Legio XX will march from the Amphitheatre to High Cross andtorches will be lit.

What missing Latin works would you like to see?

Mary Beard's latest blog offering raises the old question of what lost Latin manuscripts you would like to be discovered – and at the moment the focus is on what might be found in Herculaneum.
Mary provides her own short list, and commenters discuss her and their own choices.
Worth a look.

OUP planning A level CD roms

An email via the OCR Classics Community tells me that Oxford University Press is OCR's publishing partner.
OUP invites Classics teachers to fill in a questionnaire  about what help they would like provided.
I took the questionnaire to find out what it contains – making it clear that I am retired and why I was filling in [...]

Canada's Latin motto – agitation for change

A controversy (I don't think it is a big one) about whether the motto about 'his dominion shall be from sea to sea' should be changed to include a claim to the Arctic Ocean (!) Pupils could follow the Latin easily, so it might be a point of interest in a classroom.
It's in The Star

The March 1st 2008 INSET (Refresher Day)

The deails and an application form are on line here.

Coriolanus and Julius CAesar at Mercury Theatre, Colchester

The East Anglian Daily Times has a long piece about Shakespeare's two plays in Colchester. What's different is that Coriolanus has an all-male cast, and JC an all-female cast.

Diggers begin Herculaneum task of finding masterpieces lost to volcano

The Times had a piece a couple of days ago about excavations to find a lost library in Herculaneum. I missed it, but Rogue Classicism was in the ball as usual – thanks.
It's here.

Songs for teaching Latin

There's a CD with Latin grammar songs advertised here.
An article about a teacher who uses songs in his teaching is here.

'Slight possibility' of finding a Roman camp on school site

BBC report.
A new school is to be built in Monifieth on what was possibly the location of a Roman camp. Angus Council has approved plans for a new Seaview Primary, which will be constructed in the grounds of the existing school.
However, work will not be able to start until archaeologists have carried out an [...]