“Festina Lente” for the 21st Century
Jeff Bezos (of Amazon.com fame) has a new venture, a space company called Blue Origin, which promises affordable space flights. In a recent article in the Seattle Times about the unveiling of the...
View Article“Father of History” on the PR circuit
Herodotus and Robert Strassler’s new Landmark Herodotus took center stage yesterday on NPR’s “On Point with Tom Ashbrook” (program available in archive). No word on whether that inveterate...
View ArticleVox Romana VI
The Sixth Edition of Vox Romana, is a free bi-monthly podcast about all things Roman. In this edition: 1. Introduction (Hortensia) | 2. Classical News (Hortensia) | 3. The Roman Calendar part 1...
View ArticleInterpretation of Catullus 16 at Issue in English Lawsuit
If you’ve taken LATN101, Catullus 16 needs no further introduction. The vulgar yet clever poem is now part of a high-profile lawsuit: In London, a poem by the first century B.C. poet Catullus has been...
View ArticleA Random Latin Factoid
Latin could still function as the language of international diplomacy into the late Seventeenth Century. In 1689, Russian and Manchu diplomats signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, which for a time...
View ArticleThe World’s Most Difficult Languages
A recent article in The Economist (“Tongue Twisters,” Dec 17 2009) recently tackled the question, “what is the world’s most difficult language?” English, despite its admittedly insane orthography, is...
View ArticleSappho: the great poet of the personal
Over at The Guardian, Charlotte Higgins ponders introducing her poetry group to the pleasures and challenges of reading the fragmentary poems of Sappho, the most famous woman poet of Classical...
View ArticleMarginalia 3.25.2012
An exciting week around and about the World o’ Classics! The Virtual Tour of the Acropolis “is an interactive website that allows various aspects of the historical site to be explored in a unique way....
View ArticleMnemonic for Second Declension Vocatives
Here’s the mnemonic diddy to remember the morphology of the vocative singular of the second declension (slightly refined): “If it ends in -us, then the voc. sing. is ‘e‘, otherwise leave it be, unless...
View ArticleHaverford Intermediate Latin Core
The Haverford Intermediate Latin Core consists of 1415 words that students in our intermediate sequence are expected to learn. The Core is divided in to fall and spring sections. Every week during...
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