Notes on Teaching Latin with ‘Courses’ More than half a century ago Jacques Barzun wrote, in Teacher in America, something I feel strongly about everyday when I go to work and struggle to t Continue Reading →
Poetry and Livy’s Preface It is interesting to me that Livy’s preface begins with the first four feet of a dactylic hexameter:Facturusne operae pretium sim…In other words, he Continue Reading →
Dante’s new nose Can you picture Dante, or his famous profile? His iconography is pretty static, yet now new research has concluded that his famous straight aquiline n Continue Reading →
