The Greek language thrived under Roman rule as Latin remained limited; cultural pride and education preserved Eastern ...

I was never a Latin massgoer in my thirteen years as a Catholic. Though I did attend a few of them, and though I was ideologically predisposed towards the Latin mass, it never made my heart sing.

In History, he shepherds the reader through 2,000 years of mapmaking, with an emphasis on a dozen world maps that shaped—and were shaped by—various political, religious and social movements.

The Secret History fits into a long tradition of novels set on university campuses – including Petrou's latest, Stargazer, about two friends at a remote Canadian university in the 90s, which she ...

On Ralston College’s excellence in classics. Rankings are often controversial. For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and ...

More specialized on-line resources: Perseus Project Includes searchable texts of Greek literature (in the original and in translation), an overview of ancient Greek history, databases of images from ...

She wants to cultivate that enthusiasm, so that some students continue studying Latin in college. “The layering that kids who studied classics and Latin, the kind of depth of understanding of things ...

We both recently learned that Princeton’s classics department had ceased requiring its students to study Latin and Greek, and we reacted in predictable horror.

“The Secret History” is so self-aware that its self-awareness actually loops back around to become self-ignorance. I have, for the past six months, opened the book periodically and read 20 or so pages ...

Language instruction in ancient Greek and Latin can reveal deeper meanings of classical texts and provides a basis for learning modern languages. ... (CLCV 352) and Roman History (CLCV 228) and many ...