Can you imagine Year 7 Latin without Caecilius in horto?
by Mount Vesuvius casts a very long shadow. It looms large over the bay of Naples but it looms larger, perhaps, in the memories of the …
Category: Reviews
Five reasons you (and your pupils) should join Twitter
A journalist recently described Twitter as ‘the wet market of ideas’. What’s more, it’s a platform which attracts – as we all know – some …
Kings and Generals – an introduction to animated history
by Many of us, confronted with the challenge of devising engaging remote lessons, have been scouring the internet for ideas and resources. Look no further! In …
Review: Pompeii (2014)
‘More of a disaster than the event it was based on’ was how Kit Harington described Pompeii the film he starred in six years ago. …
What exactly is Classical Reception?
It’s the sexy frontier field of Classics and it’s boom business for theatre producers, novelists and Netflix execs. But what exactly is it? How should …
Review: Mary Beard’s ‘Shock of the Nude’ ep.1
by It’s a great episode. In her usual interested, knowledgeable way, Mary Beard discusses a variety of sculptures and paintings from Western Art depicting the beautiful …
What does the world’s most expensive garum taste like?
Rarely, might I submit, does the common-or-garden Classics teacher open the How To Spend It supplement of the FT Weekend, read a review of a …
Review: The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo (2019)
‘Tense and aspect. Name a more iconic duo.’ This piece of Twitter bait was posted last week by an American linguist, and you can just …
Sing, Muse! ‘Troy: Myth and Reality’ @ the BM
by Having visited the exhibition early in its run, on a rather bleak Monday morning in November, I have one overriding memory of the occasion: it …
The story of Liddell & Scott
by Liddell & Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World’s Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek, edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke and Joshua T. …
Creative ways to use Assassin’s Creed ‘Odyssey’ in your classroom
by Video games in the classroom – surely not? If I’m honest I’m usually the first to roll my eyes during INSET when a new gaming …
Review: Vertigo & Ghost (2019)
Rape. It’s a word that we flinch from – in conversation, in public discourse, and in Classics classrooms. And perhaps we flinch doubly when a …
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 …
Review: Oh My Gods! by Alexandra Sheppard (2019)
‘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 …
Why I wrote… Clarke’s Latin
by When asked why I embarked upon writing Variatio: A Scholarship Latin Course – the two-part primer I published in 2015 – I have always had …