Dictionaries, Dying Gauls, and December's Divers Delights…

Here are some of the more interesting or unusual things we’ve found on the web this week!

  • A Latin blog from France, in Aversa Charta, is a tiny treasure trove of simple Latin stories and illustrated projects your students would love.
  • Gregorius Clavus’s Conversational Latin Bloghas a long list of useful conversational phrase taken from Cicero, Plautus, Terence, Erasmus, Commenius, and more.
  • The Telegraph has a story about the completion of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources after a century of work!
  • The Washington Post has an article about the visit of the Dying Gaul to the National Gallery of Art.
  • and finally, some Brits in Chester are planning a big Saturnalia bash and the local paper has it covered!

More from the CANE blog

Links for September 19th

On the superheroes of the ancient world. On the Romans’ love of fish-sauce. And, lastly, on the recent excavation of a Roman home dated to

Links for the Week of 26 August 2012

A new fragment of Augustus’s Res Gestae (Mary Beard, A Don’s Life) “REUNITED POMPEII COUPLE FINDS PERMANENT HOME” (via @Caecilius) Pliny the Elder livetweets the

Two Roman Goddesses- A Fasti Commentary

CANE Press has many commentaries of Latin texts that you might not find elsewhere. One such example is Amanda Wall’s Two Roman Goddesses, which presents