Textiles, philosophy, and the Pope: Links for March 17

Fascinating late antiquity textiles on exhibit in NYC.
The importance of liberal arts and philosophy.
The Pope wants to revive the Latin language.

More from the CANE blog

In Praise of Mnemosyne in the Classroom

Virtually all of us teach Latin, Greek, or both to beginning students. We constantly encourage and press these students (indeed all our students) to work

"Telephone" history

If you have a school like mine, your students can probably find information more quickly using their phones than using the laptops on the laptop

Links for 26 Sept.

The Harvard Gazette had a great article on the intersection of Latin and Native Americans in Harvard’s Indian College Poet. The blog Designers and Books

A Woman's View

“Olim erat elepantus, Qui temptavit uti telepanto. An minime!  Erat eleponicum, Qui temptavit uti teleponico. Mehercule! Non certa sum Si haberem rectum an non. Sed,