Latin

Video

Interview | Teaching and learning Latin, with Bettina Joy de Guzman

We are pleased to share this video interview with Bettina Joy de Guzman, about her experience in teaching Latin to high school students. You can watch the video in the frame below, or on our YouTube channel. Related topics Interview | Teaching and learning Greek, with Joel Christensen Interview | Teaching and learning Greek, with Suzanne Lye For further videos please visit the Watch page. Bettina Joy de Guzman Bettina… Read more

Ancient Greek language,  Word Study

Using Logeion: Quick Guide

Here at Kosmos Society we have been continuing our exploration of the digital tools that help us in the translation study groups and for carrying out word searches and word studies. Many of us have made use of Logeion, for both Greek and Latin. This online reference has a number of useful features, and provides access to lexicons and dictionaries in a selection of languages other than English. It also… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | June 2018: Catullus

Our Book Club readings for this month are selections from the poetry of Catullus. We will start the discussion in the Forum, and there will be a Google Hangout on Tuesday, June 26 at 11 a.m. EDT—the link will be posted in the Forum at that time. Gaius Valerius Catullus was a renowned Roman poet. He had a short life: he was born around 84 BCE or 87 BCE, and he… Read more

Visiting Scholars

Open House | The poetry of Horace, with Gregory Nagy

We were delighted to welcome Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, and Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, for a discussion on the poetry of Horace. In preparation for this event, you might like to read his article in Classical Inquiries: Some imitations of Pindar and Sappho by Horace The Odes of Horace on Perseus: Ode 4.1 Ode… Read more

Announcements

“Les langues vivaces” at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Lille 2

A guest post by Leonard Muellner In October of 2016, I had the pleasure of talking about Homeric poetry to the largest audience I have ever addressed in the many years I’ve spent teaching Classics—over 500 students in a huge new amphitheater at the University of Lille in northeastern France. The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lille is part of an emphatically public system, supported by tax dollars… Read more