Collecting choice Latin lines is easy – the difficulty is trying to work out what they add up to. And women, in particular, come off badly in this collection of Latin’s greatest hits.
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Airbnb is taking a very bold step by issuing a multi billion dollar IPO during a global economic slowdown – something that was unthinkable a few years ago.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee highlights the richness of the English lexicon by picking some tough entries with foreign roots.
The oldest surviving novel in Latin literature, Satyricon follows three young men on their misadventures and homosexual love triangle.
The history of the Latin phrase at the centre of the impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
Martin Luther is credited with initiating the split in Christianity that came to be called the Protestant Reformation. But don’t count out Erasmus, an early proponent of similarly radical ideas.
How Romans overcame their fear of witches by finding them funny.
Interdisciplinary research led to the discovery that three historic books were covered in a layer of arsenic.
Textual analysis using the digitised text of this 4th-century manuscript has established its authenticity.
When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
Giles Fraser thinks that ‘Brexit recycles the defiant spirit of the Reformation’. How wrong can he be?
The UK’s approach to classics in school is a hangover from the days of selective education.
Understanding the meaning of the word science has changed over time, but the goals to produce and share knowledge remains the same.
A little item buried on the inside pages of newspapers recently caused a small stir. Latin plant names, it was claimed, were “in danger of dying out”, following a decision by the International Botanical…
A project started decades ago and crossing a range of academic disciplines to build the world’s most comprehensive dictionary…
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