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Cora Beth Knowles
Well, it’s Easter, and I have the chocolate to prove it. And as a nice eastery extra, this week’s hot online topic is Roman bunnies (I feel a ‘hot cross bunny’ joke coming on…). The press has been reporting that the earliest known bunny remains in Britain have been found, at Fishbourne Roman Palace, and … More Weekend Reading: Bunny Bones
This week I’m having an Icarus week – which for me is not particularly unusual. I was running an online tutorial the other day. It was supposed to be on the relationship between myth and reason (theories about the beginnings of the universe, early cosmology, the relationship between temple and Hippocratic medicine, etc etc), but … More Weekend Reading: Myth and Whisky
This week I’ve been learning about the methods which were used to teach Latin to non-Latin speakers in the Roman world. And to be honest, I’ve been giggling quite a lot. Sometimes loudly, in public places. This wasn’t a purposeful research topic: it came about by pure chance. There I was, minding my own business … More Weekend Reading: Latin for non-Romans
