Links for February 6th

A comparison is drawn between storytelling in Homer and storytelling in a modern epic like Star Wars.
On the methods employed by ancient counterfeiters to fool the authorities.
On the NFL abandoning Roman numerals for the Super Bowl tomorrow.
If Herodotus were to write about the Super Bowl, this might be what he’d say.

More from the CANE blog

"Telephone" history

If you have a school like mine, your students can probably find information more quickly using their phones than using the laptops on the laptop

Links for the Week of 18 November

A description (with pictures!) of the battle of Alesia: http://www.mikeanderson.biz/2012/11/caesar-against-vercingetorix-siege-of.html (via @Nihil_Novi_Net) Mathematics texts in Latin (and Arabic and Sanskrit and other languages: http://www.wilbourhall.org (via

Thursday Resource: Latin for Addicts

Latin for Addicts is the blog of a grad student who is systematically going through Allen and Greenough. Each post discusses a topic from the