Boris Johnson
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Latin always seems to be on the rise, and yet there are still contrary opinions about its utility … from Skynews: A growing number of children as young as seven are learning Latin in a move to improve their literacy and understanding of ancient civilisations. Existing teachers are being trained to take the lessons with…
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Armand D’Angour has written to inform us that a somewhat shaky video of Boris Johnson’s original oration of Dr. D’Angour’s ode is available at his site. It’s rather dramatic (and funny) and is rather more formal than the plaque-ceremony repeat which we mentioned last week (Boris Johnson Orates Armand D’Angour’s Olympian Ode!!). Here’s a direct…
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As long as we’re talking about our favourite mayor of London, we might as well mention this item from the travel pages of the Australian … Johnson is taking the writer on a bicycle tour of the city … an excerpt of the Classical bits: […] Boris has written a book on “the people that…
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I’ve been anxiously checking in on Youtube in the hopes of seeing a video of Boris’ performance of Armand D’Angour’s Olympian ode and while we still don’t have the full thing, Susannah Davis (on Twitter; naturally we direct a tip o’ the pileus to her) did point us to this glimpse from a Greek source:…
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This one’s been percolating in various papers for the past couple of days, but the Telegraph takes it that extra step by providing the text (which I’ve been waiting for): Mr Johnson, who studied classics at Oxford, will recite the poem that he commissioned for the Games in both Greek and English. The ode was…
rogue classicism 