Pie (charts), speeches, and music: Thanksgiving Day Links

Happy Thanksgiving!
(I am thankful for the plethora of links this week.)
A pie chart and bar graph of the reigns and causes of death of Roman emperors.
Evidence suggests gladiators ate plant ash for bone strength.
Archaeologists claim to have found remnants of the Trojan Horse.
The disparities between English and Latin pronoun usage.
Ted Cruz modifies Cicero’s famous First Oration in speech against president.
Gregory Crane weighs the pros and cons of becoming a professor of Classics.
An interesting new online Latin course through comics.
Young composers explore an ancient Latin text and what ancient Greek music sounded like.

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Foreign Language Tools

I’m having a bit of writer’s block, and it is the middle of the summer, so I will leave you with a small list of

Twitter Resources

Twitter resources The next #latinlangchat will be on 7 May. If you’re interested in following it without a Twitter account, you can go to https://twitter.com/search?q=%23latinlangchat&src=hash

Links for the Week of 25 August

Virgil Out Loud, a free app with readings of the Aeneid, is now available. (via Emil Penarubia) Roman nanotechnology? (via Ruth Breindel) “Text & Textile: