A wave of bafflement seemed to sweep over the country last week, as the Conservative party announced that they would be cutting the duty on beer and bingo. While some welcomed the announcement, many thought Grant Shapps’s advertisement was a spoof and others still found the whole scenario indicative of something rather more sinister.
The infamous beer and bingo poster
Martha Burn
Caecilius est in horto
I thought that Latin, when I started learning it in 2009, had always been taught the same way. Or at least it is only these days that Latin has to captivate students who may not have been interested in learning anything at all. If they were, then they probably wanted to know about something useful, so prima facie the Latin language could seem almost irrelevant. Therefore a successful grammar book should capture your attention.
The red Cambridge Latin Course book handed to me in year 10 is forever branded in my memory, and I have a pencil with “Caecilius est in horto” written on it. But in fact the teaching of Latin is almost as interesting as the Latin itself. Donatella Puliga, from the University of Siena, gave a lecture on Monday that totally revamped my ideas of how Latin teaching could work.
Hi, my name is Shelley Hales and I teach Roman art and architecture in the department. I, along with one of our Phd students, Rhiannon Easterbrook, have started up this blog so it’s perhaps only fitting that I kick off the proceedings. This week is Enrichment Week at UoB. It’s a week in which we suspend the usual timetable and take the opportunity to experience our subject in a different way. So, a mini bus (driven by me – only stalled twice!) full of Ancient Historians took advantage of the emergence of Spring to go to Caerleon – and here we (or they – I am taking the photo) are in the amphitheatre.
Peter Guest, a colleague of mine from when I worked at Cardiff University and who has been conducting geo-phys. investigations in the fort and its surrounding area, showed us around the site, then we sheltered in the rain in the pub before visiting the baths and the museum.
Bristol Classics and Ancient History 