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Latin Sense and Nonsense in "Alexander Nevsky"
I had an interesting thought about the way we think about meaning in Latin recently. Explaining it requires a fair amount of background, so I
Resolved: Anno MMXVIII
‘Tis the season when the bold firmness of our New Year’s resolutions begins to fade before the ever-present temptations of old habits, pressing demands and
A Lesson on the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria
Built by the Greek architect Sostratus in the third century BCE at the behest of Ptolemy I, the Great Lighthouse (also known as the Pharos,
Quid sacco meo electronico insit
This is not a written-out version of a model classroom exercise which you can find done by the Quomodo dicitur? trio and others via Tu
MAFLA 2017
I was an attendant of this year’s Massachusetts Foreign Language Association conference held in Springfield, MA. This is my second time attending a MAFLA conference
Taking baby steps into Living Latin
After a little under a decade of of strict, schoolmarm-ish attention to the old-fashioned grammar-translation method of Latin, last year I had my perceptions realigned by