Latin
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This is getting a bit of coverage … the Guardian seems to have the version that’s most appropriate for us (but see also Harry Mount in the Telegraph … link below): Alarmed by a decline in the use of Latin within the Catholic church, Pope Benedict is planning to set up a Vatican academy to…
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Another one which was lost back in March … from the Latinteach list came notice of these very useful youtube map animations/commentaries of various bits of Caesar’s Gallic Wars. They’re from Dickinson College, with the Latin being read by Christopher Francese … we need more of this sort of thing: Dickinson College Commentaries
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Not sure if we’ve mentioned the Alpheios project before, but they’ve sent me this little missive, which should be of interest: The Alpheios Project should like to announce the availability of sentence diagrams for selections from book one of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the entire Iliad and Odyssey, five of the plays of Aeschylus, the Theogony and…
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Tip o’ the pileus to Rose Williams for alerting us to this piece in USA Today: When college-targeted publications feature articles on topics like the highest-paying college majors or the college majors that are most likely to land you a job, things do not always look too good for people studying the humanities. Humanities departments…
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obtest (Dictionary.com) consuetudinary (Wordsmith) circumfluent (OE) … and the Latin Word for the Day: excitare (Transparent Language) … and something new … from the Twitterfeed … dead guys tweeting: https://twitter.com/#!/LiddellandScott/status/200409240140132352 https://twitter.com/#!/LewisandShort/status/200409985551831041
rogue classicism 