Currency, Atheism, and Ice Ages; Links for February 18

Neat infographic showing the connection between the debasement of ancient currency and the fall of the Roman Empire.
Did you know there was a mini-ice-age in the 6th and 7th centuries?
Learning second languages can delay aging of the brain.
Atheism is as natural to humans as religion (so says history.)
Another fantastic Eidolon article, this time using a Socratic dialogue to evaluate what it takes to be a leader.
Ancient Greek manuscripts reveal ancient Roman “textbooks.”
Martin Luther King Jr. in dialogue with the ancient Greeks.

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Coloring Books, Games, and Nugae: Links 11 Feb. 2016

e more nostro sunt quaerendi situs interretiales ut scintillas quasdam, quippe quae nostrum intersint et speremus vestrum quoque interfore, accurate vobis conferamus.  inter haec sunt…  liber coloribus

The Lion in Nemea

I first created this story on the spot to fill ten minutes of class. We had been talking about how myths could have been told

Latin Rules!

Latin Rules!  Here are 65 Latin Sententiae and their meanings.  These are maxims, adages, and sayings of the ancient Romans that we find so often