February 2011
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CFP:Classics at the Core: Greek and Latin Word Roots in the General Education Curriculum (CAAS 2011)
Seen on the Classics list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Classics at the Core: Greek and Latin Word Roots in the General Education Curriculum Texts such as Donald M. Ayers’ English Words from Latin and Greek Elements and Tamara M. Green’s The Greek and Latin…
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Seen on the Aegeanet list (please direct any queries to the folks mentioned in the item and not to rogueclassicism): Call for Papers: The Aegean Bronze Age from the “other’s” perspective Colloquium for Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting 2012, to be held in Philadelphia, PA 5th-8th January 2012. It is a truism to point…
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Some useful points in this item from the Spectator: On the face of it, encouraging children to learn Latin doesn’t seem like the solution to our current skills crisis. Why waste valuable curriculum time on a dead language when children could be learning one that’s actually spoken? The prominence of Latin in public schools is…
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Dang … and here I was on Facebook this a.m. saying how wonderful it was not having had to deal with some sports person trying to be witty about Roman numerals in relation to that major sporting event. Oh well … Super Bowl: NFL, stop with the Roman numerals | Washington Post.
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Just came across this timely piece from Dominican Today: Dominican Republic’s own Egyptologist affirmed Friday that the turmoil in Egypt prevented setting up protection for the museum of antiquities for which bands of looters managed to cart off important pieces. Kathleen Martinez said the groups of looters which had formed amid the chaos even sacked…
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