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https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/best-veggie-pizza/ What is pizza? I know that is a silly question, but there are so many varieties and to...

Evander Mourning Over the Body of his Son, Pallas, Aeneid: Book XI, from Les Oeuvres de Virgile, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the younge r ...

On this Father's Day 2023, a quick look around the internet reveals that the theme of the relationship between fathers and their sons ar...

Ancient and modern Rome has always considered April 21 to be the date of its founding. In honor of this auspicious day, I have read Ovid ...

The Ides of March are nearly upon us, so I thought I would mark the occasion with a reading of Suetonius ' description of the assassinat...

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought I would take a look at some of the fifth-century Latin written by this remarkable individual an...

I posted this pic of the conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter on the evening of March 1, 2023 on my other social media and added the...

Today is March 1st, the birthday of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, commonly called Martial. I would often teach about Martial and...

The other day in Latin III, my students asked a question that made me realize something about Martial's poem V.34 about the death of Ero...

I offered this poem to my Latin III students recently. They dutifully translated it, but, as it should be, they did not appreciate the mess...