Oh, wouldn't I love to be in Rome for this:

(ANSA) - Rome, July 13 - Rome is putting two Ancient Roman emperors on trial this summer for dark deeds including immorality, arson, persecuting Christians and killing Jesus Christ.

In the mock open-air trials at the famed Basilica of Maxentius, actors playing Nero and Tiberius ( Read more... )

A blogging Latin teacher has posted his photos of the model of Imperial Rome housed at the Museo della Civilta. Oh how I'd love to visit that museum and see this thing in person! I've admired the model ever since first seeing the handful of pictures of it in Latin for Americans when I first started teaching from that book. :-) But unfortunately, so ( Read more... )

The Official Rules for Writing Historical Fiction, Greco-Roman edition. :-)

One of my Spanish colleagues had a suggestion for my monuments project: Kleenex boxes. I already let the kids decorate a kleenex box in anything related to Latin for extra credit; the project would be to decorate it appropriate to a specific monument. Or perhaps, have them decorate the kleenex box to look like a model of the monument ( Read more... )

Have just figured out how to hyperlink one slide to another in Powerpoint. (Knew it could be done, but have never previously needed to use the feature.) Am now devising, in hopes of having it done by Friday!!, a slideshow to take my Latin I's through the major sites of the Roman Forum (and, if I get it done before Friday and have time, a bit of the ( Read more... )

prophetkristy! What is it with all the nifties turning up at your school?

I am finding this picture highly amusing.

Nothing, after all, could possibly say Roma so perfectly as the Colosseum...and a guy dressed up in a Roman costume...holding a [probably one of the ubiquitous Forum Strays] cat.