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A sample of Linear B script, the earliest Greek writing, 1450 BC, and an adaptation of the earlier Minoan Linear A script. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers. It is a script made up of 90 syllabic signs, ideograms and numbers, a form earlier than that used for the Homeric poems. These clay tablets were fortuitously preserved when they were baked in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos fire 250 years later.

The files presented here for download have been - except where otherwise clearly indicated - created by me. They represent no great amount of creativity but quite a bit of hard work transcribing the texts. The most important ones are Walter Ripman's Classified Vocabulary and Carl Meissner's Latin Phrase Book, two absolutely essential books for learning Latin vocabulary and idioms respectively. These are really must-haves and completely free, so have a look.

Αρχαία Ελληνική (Ancient Greek): λόγος ἀρχαίος, ἀεὶ ἀληθής. οὐκέτι φίλους αἵρει ὁ ἵμερος πάσιν ἀφανής  ἀλλάγη μίκρα, ὀλίγην φαίη, δέος καὶ φιλία, τέρας σὺν καλῇ, αὕτη ἔσθ' ἡ ζωή ἀεὶ ταὔτ' ἐστίν, ἀεὶ θαυμαστά, ἀεί ὡς παλαιά, ἀεὶ βέβαια ὡσπὲρ ἡλίος  λόγον ἀρχαίον ᾅσεθ' ἡ θέα. πάνθ' ἃ ἐφιστῇς μάλιστ' ἀλλάξει ὄντως μάγευμα ὡς ὁ ἡλίος ὕψιλος φαίνει, λόγος ἀρχαίος, τό πρώτον μέλος, τέρας σύν καλῇ English Ancient tale, always true. Not yet friends, longing seizes them, unseen by all. A small change, one might say little. Fear and friendship, the beast with the beauty, this is life. It is always the same, always wonderful, always as before, always sure as the sun The goddess will sing the ancient tale. True magic will change all you know. As the sun appears above, ancient tale, the first song, the beast with the beauty.

Etimoloxías Latinas by Alfonso Blanco on Jan 31, 2010  Concepto de Etimoloxía e exemplos de evolucións semánticas do latín ás linguas romances e tamén dentro do propio latín

This paper reports on a flipped design for teaching ancient Greek in a theological college. Students lear the basic content through online videos and actividites and them atteded a two-weeks intensive ti ubteract with faculty and peers. Studentes were satisfied with the online resource and agreed that it had helped them prepare to learn Greek     erw eeii

An amusing 2500 year old scene on a black-figure Attic vase. Two women draw water from a public fountain in ancient Athens while a man teases them and a...menacing figure stands watch. 

A vivid 2500 year old sports scene painted on a black-figure Attic vase. Find out about the importance of athletic excellence and sports such as horse-riding in 6th century Athens. Discover how complex sports scenes were depicted before the discovery of perspective in painting. 

The value of a table like this is to be able to see what is going on in many areas simultaneously, so to keep the table to reasonable proportions all events are tabulated in the nearest 5 year cell; actual date (if known) is given in brackets.  Innovations and developments in technology are very difficult to date accurately. Unless there is a date in brackets after such an entry, its position in the table should be regarded as approximate, indicating our earliest evidence of such a technology, rather than the date of its invention (which would be earlier).

Portraits such as these are some of the most poignant surviving artifacts from around the time of, but not beyond, the 3rd century, in which the dead, such as they were, were painted and immortalized on planks of wood or other surfaces which sometimes covered the face of their mummy. It is generally accepted that this style of portrait was in vogue in the Greek colonies within Egypt, which gradually phased out with political, religious, and economic change. It is a fascinating spotlight in that period of Egypt's history, where the clear separation between the Greek and Egyptian portraits began to mingle and reveal citizens of mixed ancestry, combining Greek and Egyptian features in their faces.

Exploring the day to day lives of Roman Legionnaires, some of whom were based at Vindolanda; a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, among the most important finds of military and private correspondence (written on wooden tablets) found anywhere in the Roman Empire.

Loebolus is based on Edwin Donnelly's "Downloebables" , aiming to make all the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable

The goal of the I, CLAVDIVS PROJECT is to create a web resource which provides source materials and analyses for the BBC production of I, Claudius. Each episode is documented to show what is supported by ancient evidence or by the Graves novels and what is not. The site also includes resources and analyses on other topics relating to the emperor Claudius: his coinage, the imperial cult, and evaluations of Claudius and of his health.

 On this page you'll find a collection of interesting latin rebuses and riddles, pangrams, a vanish puzzle, magic ROTAS squares, Greek and Latin palindromes, chronograms, tongue twisters, famous double-meaning sentences, anagrams, a verbal labyrinth, some jokes, and finally the Archimedes' puzzle (aka 'Stomachion' or 'Ostomachion').

This is a small project that a Latin II class of mine started a few months ago dealing with the role of classical languages in the history of medicine, and which I am going to have a few other classes contribute to over the next few months.  

SCRIBO is an international Latin composition contest, designed to:spur interest and excitement in using Latin for creative writingprovide teachers with high quality materials in Latin to read in their classeshonor and recognize top work in Latin creative writingStudents of Latin in any grade, from kindergarten through college, may participate. Entries will be sorted into the following levels, which are based on length of time studying Latin and content of the course: Exploratory, Lower, and Upper. (See the rules for a complete description of these levels.)

Procedural 3D reconstruction of ancient Pompeii generated with the CityEngine (based on real-world building footprint data and architectural information from archaeologists).

To support the teaching of the Level 2 Roman Civilisation topics, CSCP has produced downloadable booklets containing a range of original sources on each of the topics currently set for examination.

"There is a lot of history attached to Greek Statues (which we won't go into on this post). However, you don't need a history degree to admire the incredible artistry of these magnificent sculptures. Truly timeless works of art, these 25 most intense Greek statues are masterpieces of paramount proportions. "