AN ANTIGONE REMINDER of our 50 most-read essays!
Category: Latin Language
Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day
BIJAN OMRANI Visits the Oxford Ancient Languages Society.
The Politics of Punctuation: Changing History One Mark at a Time
FLORENCE HAZRAT Who decides how a sentence flows?
The Joys and Perils of Keeping a Latin Diary
LEE LANZILLOTTA Talking to yourself in Latin helps!
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part II)
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why burn Greek and Latin down?
Classics in Translation? A Personal Angle (Part I)
WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.
The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda
ALAN BOWMAN The Romans of Britannia speak again.
O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past
ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.
When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament
DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?
Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem
WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?
Whatever Happened to Caecilius?
PETER HULSE Caecilius est in alio loco!
Learning Foreign Languages in Antiquity: How Did They Do It?
ELEANOR DICKEY Multilingual learning before Duolingo.
Requiem for Latin Classes
JAN KWAPISZ On Latin as a lifeline in learning.
Crosswords in Latin
PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.
Latin with an Accent
WOLFGANG DE MELO The Romans on how to speak proper.
Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery
JACK MITCHELL Eight letters you can't get out of your head.
Why Compare Greek and Latin?
JOSHUA T. KATZ The first line of Latin literature has some answers.
Gellius in Antonine Society
LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS⠀ The manifold joys of Roman miscellanea.
The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti
JERRY TONER⠀ Who writes on a house like this?
Socially Awkward Data: Studying Ancient Sociolinguistics
ROBIN MEYER By Pollux, curse these particles!
Suburani: Writing a New Latin Reading Course
LAILA TIMS How to create a new world for Latin learners?
What You See is What They Wrote? Thoughts on Latin Spelling
WOLFGANG DE MELO Orthography matters.
The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?
JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?
The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham
MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.
Can Music Help Your Latin?
GAVIN McCORMICK What can be learned from Ecclesiastical Latin?
Learning to Read and Write in Ancient Rome
ALBERTO REGAGLIOLO How did the Romans begin their children's education?
In Praise of Parsing
JOHN CLAUGHTON Let Latin be Latin.
Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take
WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?
Ars longa, vita brevis: Active Latin in the Classroom
MELINDA LETTS How speaking Latin can bring it to life.
Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.
MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?
Ancient Cybersecurity II: Cracking the Caesar Cipher
MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did Rome's most famous citizen advance encryption?
Ubi est piscina? Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages
JUDY NESBIT Why Latin merits a different approach.
What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?
NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?
“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation
JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?
Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale
DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.
The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry
DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.
An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre
DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.
Cui bono? In Search of Useful Latin
JESSICA GLUECK Uncovering the American mission to teach "Vocational Latin".
Big Gods Don’t Cry, Do They?
LLEWELYN MORGAN How the teardrop explodes in Ovidian elegy.
First Thoughts on the “New Naso”
CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso
A Very Short Introduction to the New Naso
LLEWELYN MORGAN on the New Naso
The New Naso: A Few Thoughts on Authorship and Date
PHILOMEN PROBERT on the New Naso
Naming and Shaming in the New Naso
TORSTEN MEIßNER on the New Naso
Following Common Scents in the New Naso
WOLFGANG DE MELO on the New Naso
Nose Knows Best: How Latin tricks Italians
ALTHEA SOVANI If you think we Italians have it easy when it comes to Latin, think again!
Words from the Ghosts: Awakening Indo-European Philology
J. S. UBHI How a language spoken long before the Greeks and Romans can help us speak to them.
