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The College Board has announced that they are replacing Caesar with Pliny the Younger for the next iteration of the Advanced Placement Latin...

When my students were reading authentic Latin literature, I would encourage them, as they worked through a passage, to pay attention to refe...

Every so often there appears a news story of classical interest which seems so unusual that you need to check the sources to make sure that ...

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

The Villa Vergiliana: https://www.vergiliansociety.org/villa/ When I was a student in college, I had the privilege, in the fall of 1985, of ...

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...

My wife and I took a trip across Afton Mountain to the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. Performances at the ASC take place in t...

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 Vatican Museum's decision to return artwork from the Parthenon to Athens unfortunately has not provided any incentive for the Briti...

Photograph of the the Vatican fragments (courtesy of  Kathimerini  newspaper) frpm the Greek City Times article (referenced below) Pope Fran...

An article in the Greek Reporter reminds us that the story of Romulus and Remus is not the only one to consider when pondering the founding...

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 was looking through a folder of photographs from a trip to Rome in 2014 and came across this interesting pic of a well-preserved portion o...

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...

Last fall, I was invited to give the keynote address at the 2022 Virginia Junior Classical League Convention in Richmond. Here is the fleshe...

It seems today is the day for classical literacy. Behold this humorous take on the whole carpe diem theme:

I came across " ad nauseam" twice this morning in my readings. The Latin phrase means "to the point of sickness or disgust,...

David Pellegrino, a retired, high school Latin teacher who lives in Upstate New York, occasionally shares on Facebook "short, doable La...