The myth of New Rome

Recently a minor debate arose on the Byzans-L listserv as to whether Constantinople was originally named by Constantine ‘New Rome’ (in Greek Νέα

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The Roman filibuster

While exploring the teachers’ site for Ecce Romani I came across a brief presentation comparing the Roman and American senates, which included a very

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Latin Mad Libs: fragmentary texts in the classroom

As you may guess between this and my last post I’m working on ways to liven up the classroom, and it has occurred to me how we might do Latin Mad Libs

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