Edward Snowden and the massive US blizzard just made a Latin root suddenly very popular.
Category: Modern Echoes of the Ancient World
I Got Blogged
I got blogged on the Real World Latin tumblr, which is nice.
#RomanMarket Part Two
Here are the rest of my attempts to live-tweet my 6th grade student’s Roman Market this year.
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76331172485005313
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76334709830979585
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76342096981798912
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76343549272129536
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76344902832762880
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76346919269564416
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76348181318873088
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76350137852633088
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76350717195067392
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76353957794029568
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76354357649604609
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76366168176336897
http://twitter.com/#!/mamacheatham/status/76367383845023745
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76382069055434753
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76382244176003072
http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76631235618807808
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76641947929939968
http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76643163569258496
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76646418282057728
http://twitter.com/#!/mylatinteacher/status/76647301065617408
#RomanMarket
Yesterday was a big day for my sixth grade students; they put on a Roman Market for our school. I decided to live-tweet the event using the hashtag #RomanMarket.
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76280406470701056
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76281252205957120
http://twitter.com/#!/pjgoodman/status/76281748958347264
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76289265125957632
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76289773056180224
http://twitter.com/#!/Caecilius/status/76290598058987520
Abbia Via
Nero: Video
Adrian Murdoch‘s Emperors of Rome video entry on Nero.
Caligula: Video
Adrian Murdoch‘s Emperors of Rome video entry on Caligula:
You Are There: Old Time Radio
Over at Archive.org, you can find a large number of episodes of the old time radio series You Are There to stream or download. This unique series combined major historical events with then-modern journalistic techniques, as each week it imagined how a CBS News radio crew would document important moments in world history.
Some episodes of interest that are available on the site:
“The Last Days of Pompeii” (originally aired August 25, 1947, and rebroadcast on April 11, 1948)
“The Assassination Of Julius Caesar” (originally aired February 15, 1948, and rebroadcast on April 24, 1949)
“The Death of Socrates” (originally aired March 14, 1948)
“The Fall of Troy” (originally aired April 25, 1948, and rebroadcast on October 24, 1948)
“The Conspiracy of Catiline” (originally aired April 12, 1948)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Peace Offer” (originally aired March 6, 1949)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Battle for Asia” (originally aired March 13, 1949)
“The Rise of Alexander the Great: Mutiny in India” (originally aired March 20, 1949)
“Thermopylae” (originally aired April 16, 1950)
Tiberius: Video
Adrian Murdoch‘s Emperors of Rome video entry on Tiberius.
Rinse The Blood Off My Toga
Rinse The Blood Off My Toga is Wayne and Shuster’s classic parody of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by way of Dragnet.
You can listen to (and download) the original 13 minute version from 1959 at this archive.org page.
And here’s an 8 minute version, produced for television sometime in the 1970s (if I’m not mistaken).