Steven Hunt

I’m always up for a bit of technology and Classics. In this case, a friend pointed out this immersive exhibition at London’s Excel exhibition hall in Docklands. There was a YouTube video  as well. It looked – kind of okay. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. We went along. It was Sunday, about 1pm. It took some time to find the place as it was located in an exhibition space under the main Excel centre rather than in it: access was literally on the dockside. Inside, it lo

After another delve into the ART archives, I found this article in Latin teaching XXXVI No. 3 (1983) by Ken Dowden, then of University College, Cardiff. He is now Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham. Teachers may know his book Religion and the Romans , published by Bristol Classical Press in 1992. My PGCE Latin with Classics students at the Cast Gallery, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (October 2025). In 1983 Ken makes a number of impor

This blog is an extract and commentary on a review of the first edition of the Latin course book Ecce Romani. It was first published in the ARLT’s journal Latin Teaching XXXIII, 6, p 224 in 1971. The reviewer WSW (I have been unable to ascertain their name) refers to two books in their review. Front Cover of the 1st edition of Ecce Romani Like the one I have blogged about before from this same journal, I think WSW's review sheds some light on pedagogical thinking of the time