Links

Here are some items we found interesting this week.  Hope you enjoy!

• The Paideia Institute published the first of its video footage from February’s Living Latin in New York City conference.  Entitled “Verba Vetusta, Res Novae” from Terence Tunberg, it comes complete with full Latin transcripts and subtitles!
• The New York Times reviews a new Roman cookbook by Katie Parla and Kristina Gill.
• Ann Patty, whose book on her romance with Latin comes out this June, is interviewed about her love affair with Latin in Publishers Weekly.
• If you enjoy board games, you might be interested in a game in development from GMT Games and how it models the Peloponnesian War and the struggles of competing political factions in both Athens and Sparta.
• Finally, an essay from The Irish Times that argues for philosophy’s place in schools.

Nunzio Sisto is looking for backers for his graphic reference novel of the Aeneid.
Law students in Britain are adding Roman law to their studies.
Microbiologists may have uncovered Hannibal’s route across the Alps?!
Latin is everywhere, including Doctor Who.
What Can-Do statements are and are not.
Ancient Rome’s 1% hijacked the beach areas.
NPR does a piece about Roman concrete.

Here are some sites we’ve found over the last week.  Hope you enjoy!

• Yvonne Seale presents a plethora of resources for anyone interested in the palaeography of medieval manuscripts.  My favorite is a link to an app that allows people to browse documents, zoom in on words, and comes with a list of abbreviations and sample letter forms!
• An article in the New Scientist discusses how we might now be able to read more of the scrolls found in Pompeii.
• Some of over 600 statues in Italy held by the Torlonia family can soon be seen publicly, so reports the Guardian.
• Martius Madness – an article by Sarah Bond on sports, games and gambling in the ancient world.
• From the blog Refine the Mind, musings on minimalism from an ancient perspective.