How to guide your own school party on the Acropolis?

You may have had the experience I've had on the Acropolis of talking to your group of students, on their wavelength, only to be interrupted by an official guide who tells you it's illegal to do your own guiding. You, having studied the buildings with your students, will make a much more effective guide for [...]

Coins show fate of Roman Empire

NumisMaster has an article on the Romans' involvement with Dacia and what happened after the fragmentation of the Empire.

Good article on a Latin teaching success story from the USA

Opening:
Jamie Keller started teaching Latin at Lenox Memorial High School 20 years ago. It was a very part-time job: one class, eight students. She has since built the program to 60 students, with a biennial trip to Rome and visits from Italian student groups on alternate years.
The story is
here. It has much good to [...]

Learn Latin in the park

Lorna has sent me this nice piece from the Oxford Times
Learn Latin in the park
By Fran Bardsley, Oxford Times
A TEACHER is on a mission to get people in the city learning Latin – and is taking to the parks to spread the message.
After setting up a number of successful projects to teach children in state [...]

Corinium Museum mosaic day

Does this reporter really mean 'ancestry'?
MEMBERS of Stow Youth Centre had a unique insight into their Roman ancestry when they took part in a mosaic workshop at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester recently.
The Stow youngsters were joined by members of Cirencester Young Carers for the event, which was organised by Gloucestershire County Council youth service [...]

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

I'm just catching up with what has happened in the 3 days I've been away.
Stop press: Peter Jones' review is here.
The Daily Telegraph has a review of Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley.
If the Emperor Augustus had been able to see into the future, and had a flick through The Daily Telegraph on [...]

Funny Telegraph attack on the QCA

The Daily Telegraph has a mock oral for an applicant for membership of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. It was occasioned by the decision to abolish oral exams in modern languages, and is headed 'Never say Latin in the quango tango'.
Excerpt:
“Never mind, I think the way I posed the question made you writhe. Why [...]

The House of Julia Felix – a reinterpretation

There's an interesting-looking scholarly paper on Julia Felix and her Pompeii property here.
It's part of a big site on Meals in the Greco-Roman World, containing papers from a seminar of the Society for Biblical Literature.

Another paper that teachers may find useful is on the Graeco-Roman banquet as a social institution.

Scribendum est nobis

Thanks to Wilf O'Neill for this link. He writes: Not sure who sent this, but at first glance it looks promising …

SCRIBENDUM EST NOBIS LATINE http://schola.ning.com/

A Latin obituary of an eminent Latinist

This obituary of 'Pater Caelestis Eichenseer' has been commended to me, and I am happy to publish it here.
It has been described as:
an example of
present-day literary writing and reminds us of a guiding light of modern
Latinity.
See Caelestis speaking on YouTube here.