Yearly Archives: 2013

Announcements for the Week of 2 June

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In CANE:

  • English Derivatives from Greek and Latin Roots is now available from CANEPress. This book groups words by their Greek and Latin roots.

  • Registration for the CANE Summer Institute is now on a space-available basis.

Beyond CANE:

Links for 30 May

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Alpheios is a plug-in for Firefox that shows on-demand glossing and grammatical data for ancient texts.
Memrise is another memorization website (like Quia, Quizlet, or Anki). What makes this one unique is the ability to create your own mnemonics or other ways to remember information.
The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) has released its canon of Classical Latin authors online. It also includes concordances of words.
The Digital Classicist Wiki includes many resources, tools, and online projects related to Classics. A great place to browse and see what’s out there.
Luke Henderson discusses his use of active Latin in the classroom and shows an impressive feature film (in Latin!) created by his students.
Marvel at some wonderfully preserved gladiator mosaics from Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

Propaganda in Caesar and Vergil

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This week’s feature post comes to us from Ruth Breindel:
After reading Vergil and Caesar for the AP, I give my students this assignment, so that they can see how propaganda is used by both authors.  During the year we discuss propaganda – the portrayal of Aeneas, the scenes in Book 6 of the Aeneid, Caesar’s discussions of the Gauls and how he makes himself look better – and its importance to the text and the authors (especially Vergil, writing at the time of Augustus!).  By linking it to modern day examples, the students see how propaganda continues even now, and how effective it can be.
In addition, take a look at this article that was just published: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22569913