Why you should read… Lucretius
by I have a confession to make: I think Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura is the finest work of Latin literature. I’m not some kind of Classics …
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Language of the Muses: the connection between music and Ancient Greek
by There is a long-standing and much-discussed interaction between music and language. First, there is the age-old debate of whether music is itself a language—“the universal …
What happened when a History teacher taught themselves Latin GCSE?
by I’m going to share a secret with you all. My name is Rachel, and I’m a history teacher, but I don’t have a history degree. …
Review: Oh My Gods! by Alexandra Sheppard (2019)
by ‘He’s like the Beyoncé of my immortal family.’ Guess the god. And which Olympian likes sauerkraut, Crocs and car boot sales ‘somewhere off the North …
Last Supper in Pompeii: what will your pupils get out of it?
With the new term looming like a superheated ash cloud, I got on an escape train to Oxford last Friday in order to see the …
Teaching at the JACT Latin Summer School 2019: what did I learn?
Tell any acquaintance that you’re spending two weeks in July teaching Latin to teenagers and they’ll likely look at you a bit funny. You can …
Top 10… lesser-known sites of Roman Britain
by “In our present age, with its passion for reality and urge to be ever on the move, no one who is interested in Romano-British archaeology …