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 the sixth-century BC.
Ben Revkin
Announcements for September 13th
Welcome back to a new school year! CANE is always looking for new and interesting posts. If you are interested, contact one of our Editors through this page.
CANE
- The Emporium Romanum has lots of great things to start of the new year!
- The next deadline for CANE’s Discretionary Grant is October 1st. The application deadline for the Barker and Means Scholarships is December 1st.
BEYOND CANE
- Fabulous offerings from ASCANIUS Youth Classics Institute, including opportunities to volunteer.
- The Boston Area Classics Calendar has a lot going on, and a weekly email digest of upcoming events.
Events
- The Classical Association of Massachusetts (CAM) is sponsoring a bus trip for Latin from Boston and Western Massachusetts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on Saturday, October 3. The museum visit will feature an optional 2-hour spoken Latin tour of the collections hosted by our active Latin expert and CAM Vice-President, Prof. James Dobreff of UMass Boston. For more information, visit the CAM website or register here.
Meetups
- Live in western MA or northern CT and want to practice speaking in Latin? There is a large group that meets weekly in Hadley, MA! For details, contact TJ Howell.
- In the Boston area? Check out the Active Latin Meetup page for events.
Jobs
- New Jobs have been posted!
Notable Folks and Useful Tips: Links for September 9
Consider women who literally built Rome….one brick at a time! This is a great example of using inscriptions from the Ashmolean Latin Inscription database to show how primary source material will ‘cut to the chase’ when exploring new topics.
Two great blogposts from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers about bringing news about Ancient History into the Classics classroom as well as many tips for teachers in the new semester.
For more current events and relevant history and its deconstruction, see Paideia’s blogpost: The last queen of Palmyra ….and read about a damnatio memoriae happening in Syria
Dr. Pauline Ripat (Univ. of Winnipeg) and Dr. Christina Vester (Univ. of Waterloo) have released a free digital game, Vice Verba, now available for iPhone and iPad! Practice your Latin conjugations to win togas and earn dead Romans. The University of Winnipeg students advised on and helped to create this game!