Links for the Week of 21 April

We have a bevy of introspective blog links this week.
Liz Gloyn ponders the importance of bibliometrics for Classicists.
Llewelyn Morgan examines the “us vs. them” mentality prevalent in our society and what the ancient Greeks can show us.
Neville Morley grapples with the concept of the Classicist as the “Lone Scholar.”
Finally, the NYT has a write-up on that oldie-but-goody, Nuntii Latini, the Finnish news program spoken in Latin.

More from the CANE blog

A Summer at Villa Vergiliana

A CANE Endowment Scholarship Report by Susan Zoller: Two Vergilian Society Study Tours in Italy I will remember gazing out from a villa rooftop toward

Post Roman Britain’s Economy

For years the consensus has been that when the Romans left the economy of Britain took a big hit. New research published in Antiquity and summarized in Science (389:1077,

Links for 4 July

An NPR book review about Alice Kober and the decipherment of Linear B. (via @cortsims) A piece in support of requiring English to Latin on

Comprehensible Input

I have long held the belief that Latin, like any other language, can and should be spoken.  To that end, I have been attending SALVI’s