Links for the week of 4 November

Comparisons of mummy portraits with the mummies’ faces: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224029/First-Century-Photoshop-Study-brings-mummies-life-reveals-talent-ages-painters-eerie-portrait-likenesses.html (via @DrKillgrove)

A new online Latin dictionary: http://instantlatin.com (via @etclassics)

A reconstruction of a dish from Apicius: http://pass-the-garum.blogspot.de/2012/10/pork-and-fruit-minutal.html (via @Nihil_Novi_Net)

Cat sanctuary may be pushed out of Torre Argentina: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20152238 (via @AIRomanCulture)

A cartoon about a day in the life of a rich Roman boy: http://rogueclassicism.com/2012/10/30/video-upper-class-teen-boy-life-in-ancient-rome/ (Warning: does contain cartoon nudity at the beginning as part of a discussion about Roman fires and briefly in the baths, as well as vomiting). (via @rogueclassicist)

Virtual tour of the Ara Pacis (requires Flash): http://tourvirtuale.arapacis.it/eng/index.html (via @ProfChristensen)

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Links for May 30th

A couple of interesting stories… Will Latin programs in France be cut by plans to reform the nation’s school system? The amazing complexity of Damascus

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

Report of the CANE representative to NECTFL

Report of the CANE Representative to the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages by Dr. Madelyn G. Torchin, Tufts University, Program Supervisor, Classics