A personal note

I now have a personal blog on http://streetinsomerset.blogspot.com/
Friends are welcome to visit it if they would like to share my thoughts on mortality.

Oxford professor discusses Roman economy

Tufts Daily
Andrew Wilson, a professor of the archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford, is visting campus this week as the speaker for a four-part lecture series sponsored by the Department of Classics. The last two installments of the Balmuth Lecture Series will take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Cabot 206 and tomorrow at [...]

iPhone Latin

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Michael Dinan TMCnet Editor
Speaking in Martin Scorcese’s 2005 documentary “No Direction Home” about his break-up with then-fellow folk singer Joan Baez in the 1960s, Bob Dylan says: “You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.”
 
The quote came as Dylan discussed his failure to ask Baez to sing on stage with him during [...]

Just a reminder about the OCR Classics Community

There’s been a flurry of activity on the OCR Classics Community recently, about teaching Sparta, visiting Oplontis and much more, so I thought I’d give it another mention today. There are also stores of older teaching materials on their records. I’m not sure that they have them organised into topics as we have on the [...]

Lorna Robinson interview

In case it’s of any interest to readers of the blog, this is the linkof an interview I did for national radio in Australia on promotingLatin:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2009/2501181.htm
–Dr Lorna RobinsonDirector, The Iris Project

Definitely a Coffee Break item

Caesars AC settles discrimination lawsuit
February 24, 2009
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Caesars Atlantic City avoids the wrath of the gods.
The casino hotel has settled a discrimination lawsuit over its hiring practices at the Toga Bar.
The lawsuit was filed by mostly male bartenders who claimed they were passed over in favor of young [...]

Neo-Latin iu Cambridge

Dear David,
This looks very interesting to me, if only I could get to it. Do you think
it is worth while putting out on your blog?
Best wishes.
—–Original Message—–
From: A.W. Taylor [mailto:awt24@hermes.cam.ac.uk] On Behalf
Of A.W. Taylor
Sent: 23 February 2009 18:26
To: Dr Andrew Taylor
Subject: CSNLS Seminar at 5.30pm on Thursday 26 Feb
CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY FOR [...]

Origins of Pompeii-style artefacts examined

This seems a welcome bit of research.
From Space Fellowship
Roman artefacts which are nearly two thousand years old with similarities to ancient remains found at Pompeii in Italy will be examined at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s ISIS neutron source in Oxfordshire this weekend. (21-22 February 2009). Researchers hope to learn more about our heritage [...]

Becoming a Friend of Iris

Many of us have been following the good things Lorna Robinson has been doing in bringing Latin to London schools and beyond through the Iris Project.
Now you can become a Friend of the project for £50 a year.
See the page.

Dorothy Sayers again

I am glad to see that LatinTeach has given a link to the Dorothy Sayers lecture accessible from the tab above. LatinTeach also gives a link to Sayers’ ‘Lost Tools of Learning’.
One of the reasons for the study of the Classics is to gain an alternative world-view, from which we can look at our own [...]