Links for 25 July

Participate in the National Latin Survey.
Roman fingerprints found in 2,000 year old cosmetics.
A free MOOC on paleography through the University of London.
Crocodile suit of armor for Romans living in Egypt in 3rd Century CE.
Lego Acropolis built.

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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

Links for 25 July

Participate in the National Latin Survey. Roman fingerprints found in 2,000 year old cosmetics. A free MOOC on paleography through the University of London. Crocodile

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

Auctores Obscuri: Marcellinus the Count

Perhaps now, in this climate of intense partisanship, might be a suitable time to examine with our students how two individuals can observe the same