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T’other day facebook (of all people) pointed us to an article in the Independent which was reporting a paper by John N. Davie, with the spin that as taught currently in UK Schools, Latin wasn’t difficult enough and (somewhat paradoxically) that Latin should be taught in all schools (Latin Not Tough Enough … and Should…
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Always nice to see this sort of thing, even if you thought one must have already existed: A group of graduates and lecturers is planning to set up a Malta Classical Association with the aim of raising the profile of Classics in Malta. The association will hold public lectures on aspects of the Classical world,…
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Some excerpts from a lengthy piece in the Boston Globe: When Harvard was founded nearly four centuries ago, all students read and spoke Latin. They had to: Lectures were delivered primarily in the ancient tongue, and the classics was pretty much all they could study. Today, the number of students conversant in Cicero and Plato…
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