A Latin job for 2010-11 has opened at Regis in New York City - a program which should be (should not is) the best Latin program in any American high school. The school’s history has been shaped by the formative deed which started it - a large, anonymous gift which paid all the school’s expenses [...]
And gets a response.
My general take on it: it’s about as useful and important as learning music. If you’re the kind of person who thinks we should just get rid of music, I think you’ll want to dump Latin too, and for the same reasons.
One of the commenters asked, “I wonder how many criminals have [...]
In Latin first (from the breviary), then my free translation after.
“Paulus, eremitarum auctor et magister, apud inferiorem Thebaidem natus, cum quindecim esset annorum, orbatus parentibus est. Qui postea declinandae causa persecutionis Decii et Valeriani, et Deo liberius inserviendi, in eremi speluncam se contulit: ubi, palma ei victum et vestitum praebente, vixit ad centesimum et decimum [...]
Students of ancient languages know the feeling of being able to read no more than a paragraph of text in an hour, slogging through a dictionary for nearly every word and then trying to decipher the sentence. But similarly those who have stayed with them know the feeling of being able to speak and read [...]
SALVI, the North American Institute of Living Latin Studies (Septentrionale Americanum Latinitatis Vivae Institutum), has a new website up with various Latin resources, including a fair amount of information about their Rusticatio, the week-long Latin immersions we do during the summer. They’ve also got a piece I wrote with some hints for Latinists learning to [...]
I’ve been in Lander, Wyoming for the past few days, at Wyoming Catholic College, for one of their twice-yearly Latin immersion weekends. The students all speak Latin from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, cycling through various activities. This weekend it’s readings from the Fathers, games in Latin, talking about love, little skits, nature walks (which [...]
For those Reginaldians who did not see this aliis modis:
For the next week I’ll be serving in an instructional role at the Rusticatio Virginiana. A group named SALVI - the North American Living Latin Institute - rents a 19th c. plantation in West Virginia and fills it with people who for a week speak nothing but Latin - taking classes, cooking our meals, playing [...]
I was astonished on Friday night by the floats of the “Mystic Krewe of Hermes,” a krewe which prides itself on its traditional, secret, and indeed hermetic ways. The parade was dubbed “The Retinue of Dionysus,” but I expected mythology from the parade about as much as I would expect a presentation on the Homeric [...]
One of the better-known figures in Classics today is Father Reginald Foster. His story is interesting enough to have appeared in the media several times, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, the BBC, and most thoroughly in The American Scholar.[1] He has his own weekly spot on Vatican Radio, called “the Latin [...]