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The Aeneas system promises ‘useful research starting points’ – and it seems to deliver.
Public baths also often featured gymnasiums, libraries, restaurants and exercise yards. Archaeological evidence suggests even dentistry was performed at the baths.
Some say Latin names are elitist and incomprehensible, but they started out as a way to be inclusive.
One particularly good example of ‘damnatio memoriae’ involves Crispus, the first son of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Here’s how he became Crispus the Cancelled.
Changes to medical terminology in Latin may affect how anatomists not trained in the language understand and communicate information.
However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
Nos Galan Gaeaf on October 31 in Wales is steeped in folklore and tradition.
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.
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?
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