summer

Links for the Week of 17 March

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CANE

Online registration is now available for the 2013 CANE Summer Institute in Providence, RI.
Kathy Sinkovich’s book English Derivatives from Greek and Latin Roots is available for preorder from CANEPress at the discounted price of $22.

Summer

An immersion spoken Latin program will be offered in Rome by the AIRC. (via @apaclassics)

Clothing

Roman and Etruscan connections for papal clothing. (via @nybooks)

Teaching tools

Foreign Language tools from Magister Revkin (via @brevkin)
The Latin Quarter: Films and readings about Latin. (via @CarolineLawrenc and @classicslibrary)

Links for the Week of 3 March

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Summer

Registration for the CANE Summer Institute is open. (15-20 July in Providence, RI, USA)
Immersion Latin in Rome, for beginners and for teachers. (24 June-17 August) (via @apaclassics)
Beginning Greek and beginning and intermediate Latin in Bologna. (via @classicslibrary)

History

Recreations

Recreation of a kithara. (via @Nihil_Novi_Net)

Events

The Aquila Theater company is presenting Herakles: http://aquilatheatre.com/home/ny-season/

Archaeology

Resources

Literature

Classics in the News

A piece in Latin on the Pope’s resignation.(via @nuntii)

Links for the Week of 17 February

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Summer Opportunities

Call for applicants for archaeological opportunities near Vesuvius: http://www.apollineproject.org/dig.html
Study Greek or the Ancient World in Athens: http://www.norwinst.gr/uk/greek-studies-on-site-summer-2013.html (via @Horatiana)
AIRC Field School: http://saverome.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/applications-open-archaeology-field-school-2013/ (via @AIRomanCulture)
AIRC Programs to learn Latin and learn about Rome for high school and college students: http://romanculture.org/page/summer-programs via @AIRomanCulture)

Contests

Naming the moons of Pluto: http://www.plutorocks.com (via @bretmulligan and @TheIrisProject)

Call for Papers

Digital Classics London is looking for papers; abstracts due by 22 March: http://www.stoa.org/archives/1647 (via @palaeofuturist)

Latin in the News

Links to video and transcript of the Pope’s resignation, with an article about the reporter who knew Latin: http://saverome.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/how-latin-and-twitter-helped-a-journalist/ (via @SaveRome and @NorRJ23)

Resources

Lacus Curtius is putting all of Caesar online: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/home.html (via @LacusCurtius)

Artifacts

Lead bread stamp: http://aroundchester.blogspot.com/2013/02/roman-lead-bread-stamp.html (via @jntribolo)

Reconstructions

Reconstructions of Romantic Roma artifacts: http://flavias.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/romantic-ten-roman-artifacts.html