WOW, so many links! Links for January 22

Teller (of Penn & Teller fame and a former Latin teacher) tells it like it is: Teaching is like performing magic
Ancient Rome and Little Italy, in the Bronx (NYT)
Tom Holland talks about his book “Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar” on “On Point”
Learn more about Hadrian and his travels in this interactive learning module.
Trying to lose weight? Try these Roman methods. (Tip: don’t try these methods!)
Have a look at these ancient roots of punctuation.
Astrology in medicine in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists.
Here is a rebuttal of sorts (“Teaching Latin to Humans,” Justin Slocum Bailey, Eidolon) to the article from the NYT featured last week about starting Greek over and over.

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