Godfrey Evans sent me this:
CCHS Latin has an information page on the school website. All the electronic resources are on a VLE done in Moodle. It can be accessed at www.vcchs.co.uk.
Some of the materials are school only but most of them are available to guests. Currently working on a lot of the Key Stage 3 areas of Ecce Romani and thinking about doing more with the Key Stage 5.
I’ve had a look at some of the items and they seem useful, and work well, with drag and drop facility to make quizzes more fun. Well worth checking out, even if you don’t teach Ecce Romani.
The Guardian
The edible dormouse is the star of Giuseppe Carpaneto and Mauro Cristaldi’s 1995 study Dormice and Man: A Review of Past and Present Relations, published in the journal Hystrix. The two Rome-based scholars, Carpaneto at Terza University, Cristaldi at the University of Rome, savour one of the tasty rodent’s two major historical roles. Though some scorned it an agricultural pest, many prized the critter for its succulence.
Carpaneto and Cristaldi suggest that dormouse cuisine and dormouse documentation owe much to the Romans, and almost nothing to earlier civilisations. “The ancient Greeks,” they write, “were not very interested in dormice because they did not eat them … Oribatius (fourth century AD), a Byzantine author on medicine, wrote that their meat is untasty and purgative.”
Nuntii Latini reports this week on the weakening economy in their story Recessio in USA Gravescit (”The Recession in the USA is Worsening.”)
Meanwhile, the New York Times is reporting this week “Bankers to Learn What ‘Malus’ Is.” That is to say, some financial institutions are changing their policies so that when fund managers make bad decisions, they will no longer get a bonus. In fact, they will lose money!
In Latin, bonus is, of course, an adjective meaning good, whereas malus is the opposite, an adjective meaning bad.
From the recent OUP Classics list:
Re-issue of Horace Odes and Epodes by David West (ARLT vice-president)
Re-issue of Catullus edited and translated by Guy Lee
Also Lucretius and Suetonius.
There’s also Roman Europe 1000 BC AD 400 edited by Edward Bispham in paperback for £18.99. The introduction is on line here.
Incidentally, the email notification that I subscribe to has this printed at the end, which is curious in view of the contents:
This message is confidential. You should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone.
Sorry for breaking your confidence, OUP!
Bingen museum has a splendid set of Roman medical instruments, which I photographed on a visit two or three years ago.
I’ve been transcribing the museum explanations (which I also photographed) and trying to fit the pictures to the exhibits.
Have a look at this page. If anyone has more knowledge of doctors’ instruments than I (which would not be difficult!) and can guide me to better labelling, I’d be grateful.
