New Classics Major In Buffalo!
Yay! Canisius College will introduce a new bachelor’s degree in classics, the study of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and the Greek and Latin languages, in fall 2010. The new classics major will prepare students for graduate work in the field and also train a new generation of Latin teachers to meet increasing demand across [...]
Greek Bearing … Fruit?
Some good news from the Telegraph: Some 160 pupils in three schools will be given lessons in the native tongue of Archimedes and Herodotus from September. The move follows the successful introduction of Latin to dozens of state primaries in England. The Iris Project, a charity campaigning for the teaching of the Classics, which is [...]
Classical Ink
So there was a bit of twitter chatter about the Daily Mail’s claims about celebrity tattoos ‘causing’ a revival of interest in Latin, and it was decided that we’d start a new feature here which possibly is a bit more realistic in regards to Latin and tattoos by showcasing the Latin/Classical ink festooning the dermises [...]
Saving Latin in Scotland – Followup
In today’s Scotsman: IT IS the dead language of ancient Rome, the Declaration of Arbroath, law books and medical terminology. But a new campaign is using that most modern of inventions – Facebook – to wage a battle to save Latin in Scottish schools. An online bid to protect qualifications in the study of the [...]
Latin Tattoos Causing Revival in Latin?
Image via Wikipedia Tip o’ the pileus to Dorothy King for alerting us to this somewhat strange connection being made by the Daily Mail: Celebrity Latin tattoos may be fuelling a revival of the ancient language in schools, it emerged today. Pupils are increasingly demanding to study the subject, according to an exam board, as [...]
Latin Major at LSU Threatened!
This one doesn’t appear to have been widely bruited about yet, but an item in the Baton Rouge Advocate shows that Latin (among other majors) is on the chopping block for that always-questionable ‘budgetary reason’ (with the usual platitudes about having to make ‘tough decisions’ yadda yadda yadda). As expected, the Louisiana Classicist blog is [...]
Classical Works Knowledge Base
Image via Wikipedia A very interesting project at Cornell: Scholars looking for multiple sources and translations from among 1,000 years of ancient Greek and Latin texts will have a powerful new tool in their research arsenal with a database being developed at Cornell. The Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB) — a relational database and specialized [...]
World’s Highest Paid Latin Teacher?
Of course, he has another gig: He came, he saw, he got told off for not paying attention in class and then he was heckled by binmen. It was all in a morning’s work for the supply teacher at St Saviour’s and St Olave’s Church of England secondary girls’ school – or, as he is [...]
Radio Bremen’s Nuntii Latini
Ecce: Nuntii Latini mensis Aprilis | Radio Bremen.
Princeton’s ’10 Latin Salutatorian
Image via Wikipedia David Karp ’10 has been named this year’s valedictorian, and Marguerite Colson ’10 has been selected as Latin salutatorian, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel announced at the faculty meeting on Monday. [...] A history major who has excelled at Latin during her time at the University, Colson is the highest-ranking senior [...]
