The ARLT motto is ‘respice, prospice’, and we spend most of our time looking forward, finding ways to meet the new challenges thrown at us by our students, by our school authorities, by governments, by exam boards and universities.
Those who chose the motto were thinking, no doubt, more philosophically, of the riches of the Classical [...]
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Quite a long article on the BBC website which you might enjoy.
Roads, obviously. Sanitation. But no great buildings from their time in
Britain. But the greatest legacy is how we use language to persuade,
says Lisa Jardine.
In a rapidly changing
world, I am intrigued to find that the ability to [...]
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August is a good time to relax with an historical novel set in Roman times.
I’m at present enjoying The Eagle’s Conquest by Simon Scarrow, part of a series with Macro and Cato as joint heroes. They are at present taking part in the Roman advance on Camulodunum, and I am looking forward to taking up [...]
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