Links for June 12

Lots of Links!

Medieval bilingual picture book with animals and their sounds.

Prevalent chord structure turns up in many different ways.

Fascinating discovery of writing on palimpsest.

Comedian Eddie Izzard on how Latin is spoken. (Caution: Strong language at times)

Great interactive tool to visualize word origins.

Modern tools being used for innovative research.

Great TED-Talk about the evolution of languages.

Another TED-Talk about global travel in the ancient world.

Super Bowl will not use “L” for 50.

Gamer uses Roman military tactics to conquer.

What the pigs think of us.

More from the CANE blog

Troy Reborn: The Journey of Aeneas

Perhaps of interest for anyone teaching Vergil’s Aeneid: Troy Reborn: The Journey of Aeneas, is a retelling of Vergil’s work that presents opportunities to debate

Project: Roman Wedding Film

Since my colleagues (i.e., Ben Auger and Laura Kay) and I have not quite had enough on our plates this year with continuous discussions of

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

A Summer at Villa Vergiliana

A CANE Endowment Scholarship Report by Susan Zoller: Two Vergilian Society Study Tours in Italy I will remember gazing out from a villa rooftop toward