How I use Twitter: "This looks interesting. It reminds me of something..." Spend time looking for the quote, image, etc. If n...

Forged by Vulcan himself, the Aeneas 500 cuts through grass, weeds, Greeks, Rutulians, and more! My wife and I often spend the duration...

from,  The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett: Master of Balliol College, Oxford . by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell. 1897. Vol I. p. 1...

Sallust. Bellum Catilinae . 13. (Trans. J. C. Rolfe. 1921) . . .the passion which arose for lewdness, gluttony, and the other attendants...

from The Greek Experience (1957), by C.M. Bowra , p. 112f from Ch. 5, The Good Man and the Good Life : The best solution was not to ...

There are days, maybe one a week, on which I try to catch up on news in the Classics field in some detail. On those days without fail I com...

From the preface to Edwin N. Brown's 1894  Treasury of Latin Gems : In the arrangement of the ordinary course in Latin, the first fo...

I've been meaning to write about this matter for a while, but this article by Curtis Dozier of Vassar College in Eidolon , an "onl...

from Livy's Ab Urbe Condita . Book 21. Translation by Bruce J. Butterfield 21.3 ... The soldiers led the way by bringing the youn...

Greek mythology is filled with storied horrors of punishment. Ixion spins eternally on his infernal wheel for his attempted rape of Zeus...

The art of celebration is one part tradition, one part separation from the utilitarian world of daily life, and one part gratitude. The th...

From Werner Jaeger in Vol. I Ch. 1 of  Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture . It is a fundamental fact in the history of culture that al...

One of the most striking modern positions is the reluctance to consider the concepts of freedom and slavery from other than political premi...

Now that the Times of London has made a small step toward civilization and erudition  with the return of its weekly Latin crossword puzzle ...

This list of Latin and Greek rhetorical devices was born slowly and out of frustration with existing reference materials, which failed st...

When at the conclusion of Latin IV last year I asked my students to reflect on the experience, one remarked that our inability to procure a...

I . Latin Scansion Latin Scansion is a perfect companion for the student learning to parse the Latin hexameter or for old pros looking....

If there is any idea which does not excite, it is moderation. Moderation lacks the pizzazz of excess, with all of its bells and fanfare, ...

Toward the end of the holiday classic Meet Me in St. Louis , the Smith family is set to celebrate their last Christmas at home before movin...

Inset of Mercury exhorting Aeneas Tiepolo, 1757 Of all the wisdom in antiquity which we find in science and philosophy, of all the tre...