Five reasons you (and your pupils) should join Twitter
by 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. …
Introducing Homer’s Odyssey to absolute beginners
by Here in Northern Ireland, only a few schools offer the study of Latin or Classical Civilisation. Students in even fewer schools can choose Classical Greek …
Cacoethes oblectandi: how I devise a Times Latin Crossword
by “A crossword is a battle of wits between the solver and the setter in which the latter should always concede victory gracefully to the former.” …
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 …
How to create a Classics podcast
by Podcasting is easy and fun! At Bristol Grammar School, we recently published the first in a series of episodes of a new podcasts on GCSE …
How to create unseen passages for absolute beginners
by In the later stages of a pupil’s Latin education, appropriate unseen translations exist in gratifying abundance. I imagine I am far from alone in possessing …
What’s it like learning Latin in Italy?
Last week I sat down with Federica, a Classics graduate from Calabria (in the toe) who is studying at UCL on the Erasmus programme. After …
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’s it like learning Latin in the USA?
by To the perennial amusement of my British colleagues, I learned Latin at school from a series of textbooks called Latin for Americans – as if …
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 …
How can we boost the profile of languages in schools?
by Nestor, the king of sandy Pylos, is the grand old man of Homer’s Iliad. He has seen the passing of two generations of mankind and …
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 …
What did I learn translating Homer every day for a year?
by On the second Saturday of August each summer I can’t help but feel a real sense of emptiness as the Greek withdrawal symptoms kick in. …