In Medias Res
The Odyssey’s Victims
A college acquaintance of mine, and a trainee officer in the army, once told me he had always found something ideologically suspicious about The Odyssey. Why on earth would you glorify a hero who leaves for a war with…
Poring Over the Pugna Porcorum
John Kuhner | February 9, 2020
Is There Any Use in Wading Through a 16th Century Poem About Pigs?
Actual, Classical, Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin
Luby Kiriakidi | February 6, 2020
The Testamentum Porcelli Is One of the Strangest Texts to Survive From Late Antiquity
The 2020 Paideia Institute High School Essay Contest
Paideia Institute | January 28, 2020
For High School Students — Win a Trip to Italy or Greece!
Rediscovering STEM's Latin Roots
Marco Romani Mistretta | January 21, 2020
A Review of Epstein and Spivak’s “The Latin of Science”
The End of the Roman Republic Through American Eyes
Elizabeth Manwell | September 18, 2018
A Review of Thornton Wilder’s “Ides of March”
Slaughtered Bulls and Bloodied Priests
Amanda Reeves | August 18, 2018
On Mithraism and its Discontents
Working to Modernize Latin Values, Along With Latin Vocabulary
Skye Shirley | August 3, 2018
A Review of Stephen Berard’s “Vita Nostra”
Quasi Labor Intus: A Festschrift for Fr. Reginald Foster
Charley McNamara | July 25, 2018
This essay is an abridged version of the introduction to Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in the Latin Language, a Festschrift (celebratory volume) edited in honor of Fr. Reginald Foster. It is jointly written by William M. Short, Charles McNamara, and Michael Fontaine, and includes extra pictures and links.
Spoken Latin in the Works of C.S. Lewis
Tom Hendrickson | June 28, 2018
Lewis Made Learning and Speaking Languages a Key Element of His Science Fiction — Including Learning and Speaking Latin
Bloodshed and Blossoming: The Gaul Caesar Made
Jason Pedicone | June 9, 2018
A review of Bijan Omrani’s book “Caesar’s Footprints”
Dux Femina Facti: Matilda di Canossa
Gabe Kuhl | May 17, 2018
Roman Law, the Modern University, the Papacy, and the Renaissance All Owe a Debt to This Power Broker Who Slumbers in a Little-Noticed Corner of St. Peter’s
Obelisk Metropolis
Dani Bostick | May 11, 2018
The Largest of Rome’s Obelisks Weighs Over 400 Tons, and Had to Be Brought 1700 Miles From Egypt — But Most Tourists Barely Notice Them