Teaching Latin in the 21st century
We are in the age of the science, technology, engineering and maths. But is liberal arts education an expensive luxury in the 21st century? Many professionals believe liberal education prepares...
View ArticleA Don’s Life: Greece versus Rome
This evening I did a gig with Boris Johnson at Intelligence Squared: a cultural combat of ancient Greece versus ancient Rome. It was partly an event in benefit of "Classics for All", the charity that...
View ArticleCompanion to "The Worlds of Roman Women"
Lampros Polkas's insight:Α compendium of un-adapted Latin texts, glossed and hyperlinked, by or about Roman women from all ranks and status groups, together with abundant illustrative images from the...
View ArticleLyric Mapping Project | Department of Classics
Mapping Greek Lyric: Places, Travel, Geographical Imaginary, created by David Driscoll, Israel McMullin, and Stephen Sansom, headed by Anastasia-Erasmia PeponiSee it on Scoop.it, via philologia
View ArticleWomen in ancient Greece and Rome with surviving works or fragments
GREEK AUTHORS • PHILOSOPHY Aesara of Lucania: “Only a fragment survives of Aesara of Lucania’s Book on Human Nature, but it provides a key to understanding the philosophies of Phintys, PerictioneSee...
View ArticleRowman and Littlefield | Homeric Megathemes: War-Homilia-Homecoming
ReaLampros Polkas's insight:The international impact of Maronitis’ work, which combines German-style philology with a Greek-style literary sensibility, can be most fully realized in the present...
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