Translating, dwarfism, and Christmas traditions: Links for December 26

Not much to report this week:

  • Add your Latin skills to translate new inscriptions and other never-before-translated texts.
  • Sarah Bond discusses dwarfism in ancient times.
  • As you recuperate from Christmas, consider how similar the traditions were in Rome.

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Links for the Evening of January 9th

On Romans and various charming parasites. On the rights and privileges of the Vestal Virgins. I’m sure some of our students would love to employ

Links for the Week of 18 November

A description (with pictures!) of the battle of Alesia: http://www.mikeanderson.biz/2012/11/caesar-against-vercingetorix-siege-of.html (via @Nihil_Novi_Net) Mathematics texts in Latin (and Arabic and Sanskrit and other languages: http://www.wilbourhall.org (via

Post Roman Britain’s Economy

For years the consensus has been that when the Romans left the economy of Britain took a big hit. New research published in Antiquity and summarized in Science (389:1077,

Doing Projects Right

I confess that, for much of my high school teaching career, I’ve had reservations about giving project assignments to my Latin students. Latin language and