Worksheet- Myths

For something different this week, I am providing you with a worksheet about Latin/Roman myths which you can try to solve.
Worksheet 1 Myths in general

Video

Today's post is a short video/animation looking around a Roman house

Roman Empire

To build on your background here are some websites and videos you could look at.
BBC - Romans
Roman Empire
The BBC have also had a series called What The Romans did for Us. The 5th Episode will be shown on BBC four on Monday at 19.30 GMT for those of you in England.

Snippets- Vocabulary, Context and more

Today's post has a number of snippets ranging from a link or two to a contextual PowerPoint and a vocabulary list to help those preparing for upcoming and vital exams.

Most importantly, the vocabulary lists:
Every day Latin- general phrases and the most common words that come up in texts, also Latin that is used today.
More Latin- again useful vocabulary that will make the exam easier.

Context:
The Growth of the Roman Empire

Links:
These will also be added to the useful links section of the website.
Latinum- a set of podcasts that are based on "A practical grammar of the Latin language" which can be downloaded here

Hopefully this will help both people with exams and those just learning Latin for fun :)

Roman Army

After a bit of an easter holiday I think everyone is fresh enough to start studying again.
Today's Contextual post is on the Roman army, the backbone of the empire and a set of military vocabulary as well.
Roman Army
Military Vocabulary

Latin Metre

To be able to read and analyse any Latin Literature, you need to be able to understand if not use latin metre so for todays (almost) contextual lesson/powerpoint we have (drum roll please)
An introduction to Latin Metre
So hopefull this will serve as an introduction, so that we can go on to look at some texts.

Note: from now on the posts may be a little more mixed, but will mostly include contextual information and of course some literature on the way.
The literature texts we will be looking at will be Pliny the Elder, Sempronia, Clodia and some others- which I havent decided about yet- sooo....
Until next time!

Temples

So continuing with the contextual resources todays post features a powerpoint on temples and looks at the styles, features and examples of them.
Great for the architecturally minded :)
Temples

Something different

Everyone knows that the study of Latin does not only focus on the language itself, to be able to understand a lot of what went on, and their literature, we need to know some context.


So over the next few posts I will provide some presentations that focus on context, starting with Childhood in the Roman Empire:
Childhood In the Roman Empire (slideshow office 2007)
Childhood In the Roman Empire (powerpoint file office compatible)

There will be more to follow.