July 2010
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The incipit and a bit of an item in the Guardian: As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Of course, Nietzsche was a…
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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…
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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…
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From the BBC comes a video report summarizing the recent renovations on the Acropolis and plans to cash in on Plato: A Museum for Plato?, posted with vodpod
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Image via Wikipedia A very interesting item in USA Today (ultimately deriving from an article in Classical World!) is bouncing around the interwebs … we’ll preface it with this excerpt from Philemon Holland’s 1847 translation of Pliny’s Natural History (9.119-121) via Archive.org. The Latin is available, as always, via Lacus Curtius: There were two Pearls,…
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