- -isms
- ‘Classical’
- ‘Induperator’
- ‘Might is right’
- ‘Relevance’ and low expectation
- A discursive lesson
- A historian’s view
- A horrible word: torpedo
- A potent myth
- A prolific word: cancelli
- A Roman road
- Absence of Odysseus: part one
- Absence of Odysseus: part two
- Accentuation
- Acoustics
- Acquiring language
- Adhesive caveats: English usage
- ad hominem… or not
- Adverbs
- American precision
- An American word: recess
- An overcrowded curriculum
- Anachronism in Euripides
- Anchors, ankles and angles
- anima mundi
- Animal metaphors
- April
- Arcadia
- Arcuate and trabeate
- Artifice: persuasion and drama
- Assonance & Alliteration
- August, and the Paludes Pomptinae
- Autumn season
- Beech: Fagus sylvatica
- Being literal—and a new download
- Birds
- Books—and books: the art of binding
- Bribery
- Caesar salad
- Calendar: a summary
- Carmina Burana
- Calumny
- Calypso’s Island?
- Canals and locks
- Caricature
- Caro Virgilio
- Carpe diem
- Cassandra
- Catechism
- Categories, and the categorical
- Cedar trees
- Character
- Charm
- Chester: the weir
- Coinage and verbicide
- Coinage: notes for younger pupils
- Collecting words
- Colours (concluded)
- Concise…
- Crowd behaviour
- Culture of the feelings
- De Nativitate Domini
- De Praesentia Domini
- De temporis lapsu
- Declining a gift
- Deification
- Dictation, transcription and mimesis
- Dogs and Guardians
- Dreams
- Druids and other oligarchs
- Embarrassment
- Examinations
- Exploring Ovid
- Figments, fragments and readjustments
- Finders, inventors, and discoverers
- First Vespers of Christmas
- Florid…?
- For Latin Prose
- Forest
- Forestry
- Four lines in Virgil
- French words
- Germans
- Gerund
- Gifts of Mnemosyne
- Gillyflowers, and the letter ‘g’
- Gladiators: ceremony? or show?
- Golden lines, and others
- Graces
- Greek conditionals
- Greek dialects
- Greek prepositions: new download
- Habere
- Handwriting and memory
- Happiness—can it be pursued?
- Historians
- History: the word
- Home: Lar & Di Penates
- Homer and Ithaca
- Homer’s islands: Part One
- Hope and Anchor
- Horses
- How to get turfed out of a university interview
- Hysteria
- Imagination
- In praise of Class Civ
- Innovation
- Inns, harbours and auberges
- Intelligence
- Into the forest to find Ariovistus
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- John Milton—and Julius Caesar
- Juvenal and Shakespeare: factoids
- La Mule du Pape…
- Ladders
- Language and power
- Language or dialect?
- Languages that live
- Learning by heart: Quintilian
- Learning words
- Lely Venus
- Lenses, and the Royal Society
- Literary, musical, artistic and architectural bullying
- Litter of history
- Livy unveiled? —the periodic style
- Longevity
- Luck
- ‘Management’
- Mandarin
- Margaret
- Marking and correction
- May, might: read, speak, hear, remember
- Media and messages
- Memorising vocabulary
- Memory and connection
- Metaphor
- Meteorology
- Missing persons
- Mnemosyne and the wiring of the brain
- Moments
- More about grammar
- More about imagination
- More about reading aloud
- More about the Odyssey
- Mottos and formulas
- Mottos, aphorisms and apophthegms
- Mules: Homer and Darwin
- Myth, legend and folktale
- Names of stars
- Naming
- Narcissus
- Natural
- Nausicaa
- Necromancy
- Need for Latin, and opportunity of Greek
- Nouns and their genders
- Nous
- Nymphs
- Obiter dicta
- Odium academicum and the rise of the open postcard
- Orestes and his peers
- Ovid’s description of the internet
- Ovin’s Stone
- Pange lingua
- Parison
- Paronomasia
- Parthenon sculptures
- Patrons and clients
- Pax
- Permanency
- Pilgrimage or peregrination
- Philological component
- Plane trees
- Plastic
- Plato and Politics
- Plato and Sir Karl Popper
- Poetry
- Poetry and translation
- Poetry: the use of an inflected language
- Points
- Polis
- Political animal… or not
- Poltergeists, etc.
- Prestige
- Problem of knowledge
- Prose: the periodic style
- Purple Chamber
- Purple, and other colours
- Pushing and shoving
- Race: four homonyms
- Reading poetry
- Remembering unexpected words
- Reverent silence
- Rewriting history
- River gods
- Role of Classics
- Roman governorship
- Romantic
- Sappho of Lesbos
- Sabotage of modern language teaching
- Schwa
- Serifs
- Sirens
- Sleep
- Slugs and phonaesthemes
- Soap
- Some enemies of teaching
- Sophrosyne
- Stories
- Sugar
- Summer nights
- Superstition
- Surprising interview questions
- Swifts
- Syntaxis and parataxis
- Telecatoptics
- Thoughts from 19th century America
- Threes
- Tradition and treason
- Trying set texts
- Two translations of Homer
- Tunnels
- Ungetatable, and related words
- Usefulness of Classics: part one
- Usefulness of Classics: part two
- Usefulness of Classics: part three
- Usefulness of Classics: part four
- Usefulness of Classics: part five
- Vandals: were they vandals?
- vegetus, adj.
- via and vicus
- Victims were offered by the law of old…
- Viburnums
- Virgil’s ambiguity
- Virgilii amor
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary and the Cambridge Latin Course
- Vocabulary: practicalities
- Vocabulary: principal parts
- Voice production
- W versus V
- We’re bound for the Rio Grande
- What happened to Creusa?
- Winds
- Words that delight
- Words that delight 2
- Writing: Caroline minuscules, etc.
- Yew trees
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