Author Archives: Dennis

Classical Geek

This is just a note of thanks to all of those who sup­ported us while our for­mer ven­dor let us down. We’d also like to announce our part­ner­ship with a new t-shirt shop. Check out our new store, Clas­si­cal Geek, either … Con­tinue read­ing

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Who owns the Latin language?

You’ll notice that the link to the Zaz­zle store has left our side­bar, but you won’t believe why. I’m not sup­port­ing the site until they come to their senses and restore our ILLO MODO VOLVO t-shirt, which has been been … Con­tinue read­ing

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Tuxtax: Tic-tac-toe for Latin classes

Here’s a game that I came up with while teach­ing an unusu­ally small class in my first year teach­ing. I’ve had lots of suc­cess with this one, but the larger the class the more dif­fi­cult (and prob­a­bly futile) it is … Con­tinue read­ing

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Circus Factions! (A game for Latin classes.)

I tweeted ear­lier today about some games for use in the Latin class­room, and men­tioned that I would blog about my favorite. Apolo­gies to the orig­i­na­tor of this game.* CIRCUS FACTIONS is a great game for get­ting stu­dents up and mov­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Ecce infans!

Sarah and I went to the hos­pi­tal on Mon­day, and our son man­aged to snag a pretty nifty birth­day (unless you’re out­side the States): 8/9/10. Here he is: He was born by c-section, and we were half-tempted to call him Cae­sar. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Just for fun: suggest a name for our baby

Well, our baby should be here very soon, but while we wait I thought it might be fun to see what all of you thought about baby names; more specif­i­cally names for a boy. This one is already out: Her­ak­les by … Con­tinue read­ing

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New Products: Baby Herakles, pro-vaccine shirts

Tell me you wouldn’t want to see a baby in this: Her­ak­les by the­cam­pvs design your own shirt on zazzle.com It was Sarah’s idea, as our baby is due any week now. I drew lit­tle Her­ak­les yes­ter­day after­noon and uploaded the … Con­tinue read­ing

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George Grote on myth and allegory

There’s a lot to be learned from texts that might seem out of date, and while it seems odd to say that to any­one inter­ested in ancient texts, it’s easy to for­get that the lat­est schol­ar­ship isn’t nec­es­sar­ily the most … Con­tinue read­ing

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Books you may actually want to buy

OCTs, Loebs, Cam­bridge green & yel­lows, mis­cel­la­neous old com­men­taries, Greek New Tes­ta­ments … Check out the new book sale page for the good stuff. I’ll cross things off as they go.

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First batch of books for sale

I’ve listed a small num­ber of clas­sics books for sale on Ama­zon, though I should say that they all have their niche and are quite expen­sive books (though I’m offer­ing them at a rel­a­tively steep dis­count). Other books of more … Con­tinue read­ing

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