Links, 04 September

Here’s some of the interesting Classics-related items we’ve discovered over the last few weeks!
A unique opportunity to show Latin in the context of planetary science is project Beautiful Mars Latin, the world’s first science feed in Latin from the University of Arizona, Tucson.  Enjoy a perfect pairing of Latin (captions) and high resolution images of the surface of Mars from HiRISE, the camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Close up of the Nobel Prize for Physics with its LATIN inscription.
A picture dictionary in Latin: Orbis pictus by Iohannes Amos Comenius, with detailed depiction of and vocabulary for many naturally occurring phenomena!
The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World.
and at last: A site for palindromes and palindrome lovers.  Also great for a class warmup, um, raw!
 

More from the CANE blog

Pervigilium Veneris on CANE Press

A hymn to spring and birth – who can resist this?  This late Latin poem, with no author attributed, celebrates love and the goddesses.  Who

Recycled Rome

By: Bonnie A. Catto      Rome is the eternal city, urbs aeterna, yet it is continually evolving.   In Spring 2023 while teaching in Rome for