April 2011
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Seen on the Latin Teach list: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South is pleased to announce the most recent issue of Teaching Classical Languages (www.tcl.camws.org). In this issue are three articles. The first describes more than 20 field tested exercises to help beginning and intermediate students become more efficient readers of Latin.…
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ante diem x kalendas maias 178 A.D. — martyrdom of Epipodias at Lyons 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Leonidas in Alexandria 248 A.D. — second day of celebrations for Rome’s 1000th anniversary ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Helimenas at Babylon
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The Smarthistory folks look at a couple of items at the Metropolitan Museum (a sleeping Eros and a realistic Old Market Woman): Hellenistic Art at the Metropolitan: Eros Sleeping and An Old Market Woman
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Not sure how long this will be available, but Corriere del Mezzogiorno’s coverage includes a video (without sound?), the last minute of which looks around inside that tomb which was found in a Pozzuoli dump the other day … doesn’t look like there’s much there …
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Tip o’ the pileus to the historyteachers lady for drawing our attention to this item put together by a class at Sherbrooke College (I think … please correct me if I’m wrong) … it’s in French: Everybody sing along: On est les plus forts On est immortels Au sommet du monde C’est nous qui dirigeons…
rogue classicism 