Living Latin – FAQs & Debunking Myths!
by The ‘Living Latin’ movement is an approach to Latin that treats it as a natural human language; as a result, it is aimed at reviving …
12 Tips for an (Oxbridge) Interview
by It’s almost that most magical time of the year – and then it will be Christmas. With the annual interviews for places at Oxford and …
How To Maximise Your Pupils’ Vocabulary
by Getting pupils to learn the words is our most important task: vocabulary is paramount for any language.. It cannot be done by absorption, as with …
‘Teaching like Janus’: Ten Tips for Online/Hybrid Teaching
Despite the positive developments of the past week and a creeping optimism, it still appears that social restrictions, and consequently some form of disrupted teaching, …
‘Marching Hexameters’: Alternative WWI Poets for Remembrance Day
As we approach Remembrance Day, we have decided to take a week to examine the relationship between the classical world and the production of poetry …
Five Alternative War Poems for Remembrance Day
Following on from our piece on ‘Alternative WWI Poets for Remembrance Day‘, we’ve put together a short list of poems / collections that could be …
Catullus, Pliny and ARGO: An Interview with Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn is fast becoming one of our most recognisable and prolific classicists: in 2019 alone, she published In The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life …
How to Extend the Top End at GCSE Latin
by The watchword at Abingdon School for the last few years has been ‘rigour’ – a term I prefer to ‘stretch and challenge’ – and this …
An Introduction to ‘Pantheon Poets’!
by Pantheon Poets – www.pantheonpoets.com – is a new website – launched in June – where I post Latin poetry in the original. For each piece, …
‘Who are we when we read?’
by In the last year, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching three quite different groups of students: first-year undergraduates, on a module billed as an overview …
Why It’s Good To Get Things Wrong
or, Why I Don’t Correct My Year 7 Set (on Day One). It’s early September, and I’ve just taught my favourite lesson of the year. …
Can you teach the Aeneid without mentioning Augustus?
by Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; So begins Auden’s ‘Epitaph on a tyrant’, …
Quinquennium: The Relaunch!
I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms… I’ve just begun my seventh consecutive year of teaching students how to translate Ovid at …
What can ancient textbooks offer the modern classroom?
by Doce me Latine loqui! How did people learn to speak Latin as a second language in antiquity? It’s a simple question—but one some of us …
Quinquennium: the first year in numbers
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