Another ‘different’ one I found on Youtube … this one really isn’t much to watch, but it’s Ralph Vaughn Williams’ 1909 production (must be from a recording somewhere):

The bumf with the video suggests following along with the words … until one gets used to the accents (and maybe even after), it’s a good idea …

Just came across this on Youtube … a different sort of performance; most of the actors seem to be Classics majors or at at least are studying Classics (according to the programme):

 

An item in the Gainsville Sun about some new Online Network mentioned this, inter alia, as among the developer’s current projects:

Even if the Online Network doesn’t work out, Prospect Park is quickly making inroads in traditional television. The company is behind two cable hits, “Royal Pains” on USA and “Wilfred” on FX, and is incubating 12 additional shows at various networks — many of them concepts dreamed up personally by Mr. Kwatinetz. (One centers on a crisis public relations group in ancient Rome; Cicero is a client.)

• Rebirth for Soap Operas, and a Career (Gainsville Sun)

… hmmm … I’m presuming it’s a comedy …

Interesting item from the BBC … some excerpts:

With the pending appointment of a new Ofsted chief inspector, there is talk of replacing current school inspections with unannounced visits.

But while modern-day appraisals of education look at many factors of school life, a newly uncovered document reveals a rare insight into what was deemed important in 1648.

An inspection of Reading School in Berkshire led to the dismissal of its new master, Thomas Pocock, following several complaints from parents about his “ability and diligence”.

Questions asked by the three Oxford University dons included, “What authors of classical Latin and Greek texts are your scholars able to give an account of in their several forms?

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He [sc. archivist Mark Stevens] added that the school’s curriculum had a Classics approach to education with the intention of getting the boys into Oxford, the only local university at the time.

“If you’re going to university there’s an expectation that you’re going to have both a classically Christian religious education,” he said, “but also one that’s based on the classics – your Greek and your Roman history and the ancient languages of Greek and Latin.”

The three dons reported that Pocock was “altogether unable to govern the school” and had tested the boys’ knowledge in his presence.

While there is no document of the answers Pocock had given to their questions, the dons did report that he had refused to be examined himself and declined “all other ingenuous ways of trial by the visitors”.

Now a state-funded secondary, Reading School is reported to be one of the 10 oldest schools in England.

It still has Classical Greek as a compulsory subject.

• Reading School inspection report from 1648 uncovered (BBC)