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Category: Latin Language

The Romano-British Writing Tablets of Vindolanda

Posted on 4th December 20224th December 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Material Culture

ALAN BOWMAN The Romans of Britannia speak again.

O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past

Posted on 23rd October 202224th October 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

ANTIGONE Digs out papers from a different era.

When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament

Posted on 22nd October 20225th January 2023 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

DECLAN McCARTHY What are the rules of divine translation?

Why Do Irregular Nouns and Verbs Exist? An Ancient and Modern Problem

Posted on 23rd September 202226th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO Why do languages have weird forms?

Whatever Happened to Caecilius?

Posted on 11th September 202211th September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

PETER HULSE Caecilius est in alio loco!

Tagged Education, Sculpture

Learning Foreign Languages in Antiquity: How Did They Do It?

Posted on 19th July 202220th July 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

ELEANOR DICKEY Multilingual learning before Duolingo.

Tagged Language learning

Requiem for Latin Classes

Posted on 12th July 202212th July 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JAN KWAPISZ On Latin as a lifeline in learning.

Tagged Education

Crosswords in Latin

Posted on 10th May 20221st September 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

PAUL McKENNA Cruciverba quaedam Romana.

Latin with an Accent

Posted on 3rd May 20224th May 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO The Romans on how to speak proper.

Tagged Linguistics

Shug Days: Cracking a 270-year-old Epigraphical Mystery

Posted on 28th April 202228th April 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Material Culture, The Classical Tradition

JACK MITCHELL Eight letters you can't get out of your head.

Tagged Epigraphy

Why Compare Greek and Latin?

Posted on 7th April 202230th September 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, Latin Literature

JOSHUA T. KATZ The first line of Latin literature has some answers.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics, Livius Andronicus

Gellius in Antonine Society

Posted on 29th March 202229th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Latin Literature

LEOFRANC HOLFORD-STREVENS⠀ The manifold joys of Roman miscellanea.

Tagged Aulus Gellius

The Writing’s on the Wall: Reading Roman Graffiti

Posted on 26th March 202227th March 2022 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, Material Culture

JERRY TONER⠀ Who writes on a house like this?

Tagged Graffiti, Pompeii

Socially Awkward Data: Studying Ancient Sociolinguistics

Posted on 22nd March 202222nd March 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

ROBIN MEYER By Pollux, curse these particles!

Tagged Linguistics

Suburani: Writing a New Latin Reading Course

Posted on 19th March 202231st March 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Future of Classics

LAILA TIMS How to create a new world for Latin learners?

Tagged Education

What You See is What They Wrote? Thoughts on Latin Spelling

Posted on 24th February 202224th February 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

WOLFGANG DE MELO Orthography matters.

Tagged Linguistics

The Cult of Cicero: Have Latinists Been Brainwashed?

Posted on 3rd February 20225th February 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JOSEY PARKER Must we talk like Cicero?

Tagged Cicero, Latinity

The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham

Posted on 15th January 202216th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

MATEUSZ STRÓŻYŃSKI Classic wordplay from Classics-loving Tolkien.

Can Music Help Your Latin?

Posted on 8th January 20229th January 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

GAVIN McCORMICK What can be learned from Ecclesiastical Latin?

Tagged Christianity

Learning to Read and Write in Ancient Rome

Posted on 16th December 202116th December 2021 by Antigone in History, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ALBERTO REGAGLIOLO How did the Romans begin their children's education?

Tagged Education, Linguistics

In Praise of Parsing

Posted on 25th November 202125th November 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JOHN CLAUGHTON Let Latin be Latin.

Tagged Education

Gender in Latin and Beyond: A Philologist’s Take

Posted on 12th October 202123rd February 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, Top 20

WOLFGANG DE MELO How did the Romans handle gender?

Tagged Gender, Linguistics

Ars longa, vita brevis: Active Latin in the Classroom

Posted on 9th October 202114th October 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Future of Classics

MELINDA LETTS How speaking Latin can bring it to life.

Tagged Education

Where do the Classics come from? Or, the Apparatus Criticus and You.

Posted on 21st September 202125th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

MAX HARDY How do we know what ancient writers actually wrote?

Tagged Textual criticism

Ancient Cybersecurity II: Cracking the Caesar Cipher

Posted on 16th September 202116th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, History, Latin Language

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK Did Rome's most famous citizen advance encryption?

Tagged Codes

Ubi est piscina? Teaching Ancient and Modern Languages

Posted on 11th September 202112th September 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Future of Classics

JUDY NESBIT Why Latin merits a different approach.

Tagged Education

What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like?

Posted on 3rd July 202122nd January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, Top 20

NICHOLAS SWIFT Can we really hear the ancients speak?

Tagged Linguistics

“A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation

Posted on 12th June 202112th June 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The Classical Tradition

JASPREET SINGH BOPARAI Where's the sense in translating nonsense?

Tagged Translation

Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale

Posted on 11th June 20212nd March 2022 by Antigone in Latin Language, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition

DAVID BUTTERFIELD Because dolor sit amet.

Tagged Neo-Latin

The Long and the Short of Latin Poetry

Posted on 21st May 202113th January 2022 by Antigone in Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature

DAVID BUTTERFIELD How the Romans used the Greeks to reinvent poetry.

Tagged Metre

An Introduction to Greek and Latin Metre

Posted on 21st May 202118th December 2022 by Antigone in Greek Language, Greek Literature, Latin Language, Latin Literature

DAVID BUTTERFIELD A video lecture series from the simple to the complex.

Tagged Metre

Cui bono? In Search of Useful Latin

Posted on 11th April 202115th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

JESSICA GLUECK Uncovering the American mission to teach "Vocational Latin".

Tagged Education

Big Gods Don’t Cry, Do They?

Posted on 7th April 20217th April 2021 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Literature, Latin Language

LLEWELYN MORGAN How the teardrop explodes in Ovidian elegy.

Tagged Ovid

First Thoughts on the “New Naso”

Posted on 1st April 20216th October 2022 by Antigone in Ancient Religion, Greek Language, Greek Literature, History, Latin Language, Latin Literature, Material Culture, Philosophy, The Classical Tradition, The Future of Classics

CLASSICAL SCHOLARS explore the New Naso

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A Very Short Introduction to the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

LLEWELYN MORGAN on the New Naso

The New Naso: A Few Thoughts on Authorship and Date

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

PHILOMEN PROBERT on the New Naso

Naming and Shaming in the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20211st April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

TORSTEN MEIßNER on the New Naso

Following Common Scents in the New Naso

Posted on 1st April 20213rd April 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, Latin Literature, The New Naso

WOLFGANG DE MELO on the New Naso

Nose Knows Best: How Latin tricks Italians

Posted on 21st March 202124th July 2021 by Antigone in Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

ALTHEA SOVANI If you think we Italians have it easy when it comes to Latin, think again!

Tagged Linguistics, Translation1 Comment

Words from the Ghosts: Awakening Indo-European Philology

Posted on 16th March 202129th September 2021 by Antigone in Greek Language, Latin Language, The Classical Tradition

J. S. UBHI How a language spoken long before the Greeks and Romans can help us speak to them.

Tagged Comparative Linguistics1 Comment
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