Greek

  • Digging Zominthos

    Folks might be aware that one of Archaeology Magazine’s ‘Interactive Digs’ is a Minoan site at Zominthos … they’ve been digging there for seven or eight years and have just started putting up the ‘field notes’ for this year’s installment. Most of the brief notes so far have a (raw) video clip accompanying them: Field…

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  • Also Seen: Greek Roots

    We don’t often see newspaper articles acknowledge the contribution of ancient Greek to the English language — especially in a Canadian newspaper … a taste in medias res of an item in the Globe and Mail: […] In the unlikely event that you are asked to strip naked in a gym by a philologist, don’t…

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  • Interesting news item from Rome Reports: … I did some poking around, and this seems to be the institution(s) involved (in case you’re looking to do this next year) …

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  • Classics For All

    A video from the Classics for All folks, showing the benefits of Latin (amongst other things) at the grade school level … perhaps it might inspire folks on this side of the pond: … the Classics for All website …

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