Living Blogging, and Digging Latin: Links for January 29th

Watch this AlJazeera news broadcast about about the heart of living Latin, Academia Vivarium Novum, the International Latin Academy in Italy, dedicated to the humanites, where students are converse in and courses are delivered in Latin and ancient Greek.

A site which gathers texts, textbooks and commentaries in PDF form.
A Latin scholar’s reading blog, which contains a remarkable number of Latin authors and entries, with a translation, explanation and notes, not to mention an occasional illumination or woodcutting, represented.
An article on incredible mosaics found at an ancient Greek city of Zeugma, in coastal Turkey.
A list of 25 ancient Greek Cities that no longer exist or are no longer Greek, includes a video slide presentation.
An Italian site, My Latin Lover where you can subscribe to a weekly Latin puzzle magazine ‘Hebdomada Aenigmatum.’

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