June 16, 2010
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Some press coverage of Lorna Robinson’s latest project: IT’S not every day you get the chance to learn ancient Greek. Now Dr Lorna Robinson is giving people in Oxford the opportunity to pick up the secrets of the language in parks across East Oxford. For the next nine weeks, the director of the educational charity…
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Image by Dave ® via Flickr No … not the one in California (although I’m sure someone will misread this and use it as additional ‘proof’ that the Romans reached the Americas) … I think this must be the one in Gloucestershire, which is interesting because it doesn’t appear to have been a Roman settlement…
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Image via Wikipedia A call from Harry Mount in the Telegraph: There’s an excellent new report out today by Politeia (which, as any fule know, is the ancient Greek for citizenship). The gist of it is that Latin should be taught in state primary schools. Quite right, I think, and for the reasons they say…
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ante diem xvi kalendas quinctilias 212 A.D. — martyrdom of Ferreolus and Ferrutio 1716 — Alexander Pope’s translation of the Iliad is published 1813 — birth of Otto Jahn (archaeologist and philologist) 1937 — birth of Erich Segal (Classicist, known to Classicists for his work on ancient comedy; known to the rest of the world as the author of…
rogue classicism 