Cartoons and Caricatures, Campaigning and Cosmic Classics

Current Issue of a great Classics Ezine: The Guardian, April 2015
Charlie Hebdo sum!   The ancient origin of Cartoons
More great Cartoon News:   The 12 Labors of Vladimir Putin
Speaking of Labors… how about cleaning out the Stables of …Augustus?
I’ve always wondered about the true origin of the Minoans
Now that its that time again, this article explores campaign tactics ancient Pompeii-Style
Interview with the Rogue Classicist:  who is that masked humanist?
Got spare time?   Help Promote Classics AND the Beautiful Mars Project HiRISE (NASA) with your translating skills!  Now this would look great on your interplanetary resume!

More from the CANE blog

Links for December 13th

Some Saturnalia miscellany… … and some seasonal tunes. Neat manuscript illustrations of ancient war-machines. A travel project pertaining to the voyage of Aeneas.

Links for February 7th

Need a map showing the location of Rome’s chief mints? Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the origins of the Amazons in Greek myth. An alcohol-archaeologist recreates

In Praise of Mnemosyne in the Classroom

Virtually all of us teach Latin, Greek, or both to beginning students. We constantly encourage and press these students (indeed all our students) to work

A Response to Mary Beard

I wanted to write a response to Mary Beard’s August 11th “A Don’s Life,” entitled “What does the Latin actually say?” because I think it