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Apollo I found myself at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields last night. I’ve been many a time since I was first shown the museum one of the tours of duty one made in the ‘Greek and Roman art and architecture’ module in my undergraduate years in Classics at King’s College, and most recently to show an architect friend round who’d never been before (how can this be, one asks?). It was an unexpected setting for an event I wouldn’t normally gravitate toward (sorr

I was talking to one of my school teacher colleagues about the reasons why they chose to stop using ecce Romani and move to Suburani. of course, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with using ecce Romani, but the teacher felt like they needed an update. Suburani has what they thought they needed for teaching in their all-girls' school. I include some teachers' tips to suggest how the reader of this blog might use Suburani too - and some of this is, obviously, applicable to ot

Over coffee yesterday, Molly Willett from the Cambridge Classics outreach team told me about a visit she’d just hosted: four Year 12 students from a London school, accompanied by their teacher – who happened to be a Cambridge Classics alumna who trained on the PGCE with me. They spent the day exploring the Faculty, having a mini-seminar with an academic, enjoying lunch and being taken through the Museum of Classical Archaeology on a guided tour. They even had time to see a li