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...Latin, gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language...This free course, Continuing classical Latin, gives you the opportunity to hear a discussion of the development of the Latin language....Continuing classical Latin: Introduction - This course features a discussion that shows how languages develop – a spoken language is...

...Latin, has been developed in response to requests from learners who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that studying a classical language involves. The course will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin and will offer you the opportunity to...

...Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages. It is for those who have encountered the classical world through translations of Greek and Latin texts and wish to know more about the languages in which these works were composed...The free course, Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin, gives a taste of what it is like to learn two ancient languages....

The writing's on the wall—read the graffiti left by residents of the ancient town of Pompeii, preserved by a volcanic eruption...The 79 CE. eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy completely consumed and buried the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Upon their rediscovery and subsequent excavation many hundreds of years later, archaeologists discovered an era so...

...Latin motto Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus – classical scholars might struggle to find this Latin phrase in their texts of Cicero or Virgil, Ovid or Juvenal; but ardent readers of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series will know exactly what it means. ‘Never tickle a sleeping dragon’ is the translation of the motto that Rowling devised for the Hogwarts school...

...Latin or Greek and in translation illustrate the metric structures used and the challenges of effectively recreating these works in modern English. The material is drawn from The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world... Exploring the classical world A brief introduction to this album. Interpreting Homer Reading' classical texts and the differing...