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29/07/2024

If you are not a regular Roman Calendar recipient, but you would like to be: sign up this week! Thursday, August 1, is the last day to sign up to receive a calendar in the mail: https://secure.blueoctane.net/forms/M4ACQJSTQ4SB

(No need to fill out the form if you have received the calendar in the past—only if you are new to the calendar or have changed addresses in the last year.)

26/07/2024

NJCL folks: today's the last day to get your B-C books. All at 20% off, and 50% off a special group of titles! 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, Room 272A, Student Union.

25/07/2024

Hot off the press! Get your copy of Ken Kitchell's fabulous The Did It First! We're in 272A in the Student Union at NJCL!

24/07/2024

The NJCL Convention is buzzing away!

Sponsors, bring your teams to the Teaching and Learning Materials exhibit to take advantage of the 20% discount and some half-price titles.

This evening's hours are from 5:00 to 8:30.

15/07/2024

The mascot for the 2024 Paris Olympics has its origins in the ancient world:

The Phrygian cap, also known as the liberty cap, emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France

11/07/2024

Fans of the Gladiator may welcome the upcoming sequel from Ridley Scott. Looks like the film will be set during the reign of (temporary) co-emperors Geta and Caracalla, and Denzel Washington will play Macrinus.

"Gladiator II", the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning epic, has received its first trailer.

08/07/2024

Hidden wonders uncovered outside Vatican Radio's main entrance. Mirabile visu!

Excavation work right in front of Vatican Radio’s main entrance continues with the dismantling of imperial-era fullonicas (ancient laundries), ...

02/07/2024

Next year’s complimentary academic calendar is in progress! If you would like to be included in the 2024–2025 Roman Calendar mailing, please submit your request by August 1, 2024: https://secure.blueoctane.net/forms/M4ACQJSTQ4SB

If you’ve entered your name previously, no need to do so again.

29/06/2024

B-C President Bridget Dean, PhD will be presenting from 9:45 to 10:45 AM. Catch “An Asynchronous Resource for AP Latin” in Room S210 ENR2.

28/06/2024

At the ACL Institute? Say hello to Don Sprague and B-C President Bridget Dean sometime today, 9 am to 5 pm.

Ask us about titles for the new AP curriculum!

27/06/2024

The book exhibit gates open at 2:00 pm. Let the stampede begin! Peruse our titles until 5:00 pm. Have you checked out our student-friendly introduction to Greek series?

26/06/2024

B-C’s Don Sprague is on his way to Tucson! Safe travels fellow Institute attendees!

25/06/2024

June's eLit is here, chockablock with teaching tips, classics tidbits and more to tide you over during our short summer hiatus. Expect your next edition before the start of the academic year!

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22/06/2024

I’ll drink to that!: oldest wine still in liquid form found in Roman tomb in Spain.

A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form.

06/06/2024

New discoveries in Pompeii, including a spectacular “blue room”:

Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy.

30/05/2024

Pliny letter proves that "ghosting" is not a new phenomenon: nihil sub sole novum!

(h/t Will Nifong for sharing)

A social snub prompted an ancient Roman author and lawyer to send his friend an aggressive but also funny letter.

23/05/2024

Experimental archaeology suggests Homeric accounts of battle may not be artistic embellishment after all:

The Bronze Age Mycenaeans were an ancient civilization from the Greek mainland known for their impressive architecture, rich culture, and mysterious decline. Perhaps most famously, the Mycenaeans were the lead cast in Homer’s stories of the Trojan War, the “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” Th...

21/05/2024

May's eLit is here!

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17/05/2024

Good luck to the students taking the AP Latin exam today—bonam fortunam!

[image: Fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, Herculaneum, first c. CE. Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons]

14/05/2024

A sci-fi film inspired by the Catilinarian conspiracy decades in the making—Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis debuts this Friday at Cannes:

The director has spent half his life and $120m of his own money to make his sci-fi epic. Just days ahead of its debut in Cannes, some of his crew members are questioning his methods

11/05/2024

Medieval Congress attendees . . . Last call. Check out the B-C display at 69/70 along the second floor of the Student Center atrium. Open 8 am to 6:30 pm!

10/05/2024

Check out our new introductory Greek program that the BMCR review praised as "clearly written for the student." Booth 69/70 at Medieval Congress.

09/05/2024

Come visit the B-C book display at Medieval Congress, 8 am-6:30 pm today and tomorrow. Booth 69/70!

08/05/2024

B-C's Don Sprague looks forward to seeing folks at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Check out our booth 69/70.

06/05/2024

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you, teachers—maximas gratias vobis.

As a small token of our gratitude, B-C is offering a 30% discount on print books starting today. Just use code TEACHER24 at checkout.

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06/05/2024

New frescoes uncovered in Pompeii: "'In the shimmering light, the paintings would have almost come to life.'"

Archaeologists unearth significant new paintings in the ancient Roman town buried by a volcano in AD79.

03/05/2024

Roman snail dye found in UK for the first time!

Experts say the pigment was worth more than gold and used to dye the clothes of imperial figures.

02/05/2024

A newly deciphered scroll from Herculaneum describes the final hours of Plato:

Newly deciphered passages outline Greek philosopher’s burial place and describe critique of slave musician

01/05/2024

Tune in! PBS will soon be airing the National Hellenic Museum's 2023 Trial of Socrates. Check out the trailer below for a sneak peek:

The National Hellenic Museum’s (NHM) dynamic mock trial event The Trial of Socrates, starring Hollywood actor and Second City alum John Kapelos (The Shape of...

25/04/2024

April eLit is here! Read on for all the latest B-C news, as well as a brand new Latin story by Emma Vanderpool—appropriate for use with LNM 2 (or in any Latin 2 class).

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