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

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

A Response to Mary Beard

I wanted to write a response to Mary Beard’s August 11th “A Don’s Life,” entitled “What does the Latin actually say?” because I think it

Awesome Ideas for the Latin Classroom

I have been having the midyear blues lately; I become stressed and doubtful when I think of my students’ speed, competency, and skills. I suffer

Links for June 25th

Why are rabbits in medieval manuscripts so violent? An evaluation of a few of Rome’s “bad” emperors. On Cicero and the Brexit. Some suggestions on