Francis Holland School Classics Department launches a resources site

Steven Jenkin of Francis Holland School has contacted us to tell about his website. It is all to the good to have another place to share teaching resources, to add to OCR's Classics Community and ARLT's own Teachers' Section.
I’ve designed a website, where Classics teachers around the country, or internationally, can upload resources of their [...]

Latin linguists bring title to Madeira – good publicity for Latin

Perhaps we need inter-school competitions as well as the CICERO competition, so that schools that do well can spread the word in their local papers. Notice that ther teacher in this winning school talked Latin from lesson one.
Cincinnati Community Press and Recorder
Latin linguists bring title to Madeira
BY ERIC BRADLEY | EBRADLEY@COMMUNITYPRESS.COM
MADEIRA – Latin is [...]

Mary Beard is to debate about Socrates

From her blog
Preparations are now apace for our TLS debate in Oxford tomorrow: would you accept a dinner invitation with Socrates? Beard, in case you didn’t already know/guess, is on the NO THANKS side (along with fellow sceptic Tom Holland). Those thinking that they would reply with a YES PLEASE are Oliver Taplin and [...]

Classical Association conference report by Philip Howard

From The Times
All roads still lead to Rome, and from Rome. A paper given to the Classical Association conference in Liverpool by Professor Alessandro Barchiesi of Verona and Siena Universities discusses how Romans invented the notion of comprising the whole world in their single city.
Rome conquered Alexandria in 30BC. It was the only time that [...]

Obituary of Robert Fagles

From the Washington Post
Robert Fagles, 74, a Princeton University professor whose translations of the three great epics of the classical world — “The Iliad,” “The Odyssey” and “The Aeneid” — have been recognized as enduring literary works in their own right, died March 26 of prostate cancer at his home in Princeton, N.J.
Dr. Fagles was [...]

Poulton's Roman past discovered

From the Blackpool Gazette
WORKMEN digging new sewers have unearthed part of Poulton's Roman past.
The remains of a Roman roundhouse, thought to date back to the second century, were discovered as United Utilities were working on a new pipeline project, on grazing land near Garstang Road East.
The amazing find was unearthed five weeks ago as work [...]

Castleford Roman Festival

From Pontefract and Castleford Express

Roman festival

By Staff Copy

TOWNSFOLK can celebrate the changing of the seasons at Castleford's first-ever Roman spring festival.

On Saturday April 12, Roman legionnaires, costumed craftworkers and a themed market will take over the town’s Carlton Street for the historical spectacular.

The festival takes place from 10am to 4pm and is part of the [...]

Gloucester reenactments

From the Birmingham Mail.
DR Who may be materialising in Gloucester this summer, but visitors won't need a Tardis to travel back in time during April.
Over one weekend more than 90 displays and activities a day will see Romans back on the historic streets of Gloucester along with medieval knights, Vikings, Victorian sailors and World War [...]

From Anne Dicks on this year's CICERO Latin competition

I thought you would like to know that preparations for the second European 6th Form CICERO competition (to be held at Malvern St James on April 18th) are well under way. We are delighted with the number of entrants, some of whom will be travelling quite a distance to get to us. You [...]

A wealth of Summer Schools

I have been updating our Classical Calendar with Summer Schools and other Classical events. June begins to get busy. August is well peppered with dates. July is as crowded as can be.
In pride of place among these Summer Schools is the grand-daddy of them all, the ever fresh ARLT Summer School. I say the grand-daddy [...]