GCSE Latin Literature

A Level Latin Literature

A Level Classical Civilisation (‘Virgil and the World of the Hero’)

Thank you, as ever!

I’ve always thought that the Groups were a good way of honing particular interests, and the Forum within each one a good way for those people to ask for help, share experience, and so on. But, I may be wrong, of course. Do people think that the site would be better if we scrapped the Groups and Forums? Are they necessary? Do people browse them or use them? Do most people simply log in, look for resources, download, and switch off?

The average length of time that a member spends on the site is 3 minutes precisely (taking data from 1st January until 30th April of this year). What do people do in that time? They visit 3.22 pages (not including individual subject resource pages; I’m just talking about the front-end pages) on average*. One of these is the home page. One is the activity feed page which comes up when you log in (along with your personal menu [I've included mine above as an example] with lots of links to your Groups and so on). The third page?

In the last 24 hours, three people clicked on the Forums link in their personal menu (the one that comes up as soon as you log in) and eight on the Groups link in their personal menu. A maximum of two clicked on the Forums link in the News menu, a maximum of three on the Groups link in the News menu. One hundred and fifty-nine different people have logged in at least once in the last 24 hours (which is about average).

Is it time to start using the Groups and their Forums, or is it time to scrap them altogether? Please tell me what you think. If they’re not going to be used, then they’re a waste, and the sad questions below were wasted.

Topic	Posts	Freshness
Classics Conference in Scotland, from the Friends of Classics Started by Stephen Jenkin in Classics in Scotland	1	4 days, 19 hours ago Stephen Jenkin
Greek Tragedy Started by Mark Higginbottom in AQA A Level Classical Civilisation	1	3 weeks, 3 days ago Mark Higginbottom
AQA Greek Drama and Dramatic Festivals Started by Hannah Maguire in GCSE Classical Civilisation	1	1 month, 2 weeks ago Hannah Maguire
A403 & A404 10 mark questions Started by Hilary Sillis in GCSE Latin	1	1 month, 3 weeks ago Hilary Sillis
GCSE Latin A401 and A402 Started by Sue Jenkins in GCSE Latin	1	2 months, 2 weeks ago Sue Jenkins
Persians Controlled Assessment Started by Nicholas Mitchell in GCSE Ancient History	1	4 months, 2 weeks ago Nicholas Mitchell
Legacy AQA materials Started by Cressida Ryan in GCSE Latin	1	4 months, 2 weeks ago Cressida Ryan
Legacy AQA materials Started by Cressida Ryan in GCSE Latin	1	4 months, 2 weeks ago Cressida Ryan
Legacy AQA materials Started by Cressida Ryan in GCSE Latin	1	4 months, 2 weeks ago Cressida Ryan
Roman Religion Practise Questions Started by Ben McLean in GCSE Classical Civilisation	1	4 months, 2 weeks ago Ben McLean
Difficulty of CE Started by Oliver Patrick in Common Entrance Latin	1	5 months, 3 weeks ago Oliver Patrick
Germanicus & Piso Started by Kate Morris in GCSE Latin	1	6 months, 1 week ago Kate Morris
Word derivations Started by Melinda Palmer in GCSE Greek	1	7 months ago Melinda Palmer
Cicero In Verrem – which is correct text? Started by Hilary Sillis in A Level Latin	1	7 months ago Hilary Sillis
Aeneid Study Day? Started by Louisa Woodruff in OCR A Level Classical Civilisation	1	7 months, 1 week ago Louisa Woodruff
Ecce Romani 1 Started by Terry Walsh in KS2/3 Classics	1	7 months, 2 weeks ago Terry Walsh
Athenian Democracy Started by Ruthie Jacobs in GCSE Class Civ Controlled Assessment	1	7 months, 3 weeks ago Ruthie Jacobs
on-line Greek Started by Jennifer O’Hagan in GCSE Greek	1	7 months, 4 weeks ago Jennifer O’Hagan
Textbook Started by Oliver Patrick in Common Entrance Latin	1	10 months, 4 weeks ago Oliver Patrick

* Although this figure is pretty static, on April Fool’s Day an average of 7.55 pages per visit was registered! What does this tell me?

Hello, all. I hope you’re all managing to find the Resources link OK? It has moved and the setup is a little different, I know. You’ll notice, as I’ve said on the homepage, that you need to log in to access all the members-only parts of the menus. This is to better hide your activity and the resources from prying eyes, from Google and from spam (I hope you agree that this is an improvement and necessary). So then, the first thing you need to do is login, and then you can see everything! The Resources page is a link on the Courses menu (for want of a better heading). Logging in reveals the Groups and Forums, and also the Feedback Survey on Cicero (please fill it, or some of it in!).

As to new resources for new prescriptions, if you have resources already for the new A2 Latin texts, please do upload them and I’ll sort out the AS/A2 Latin Literature page to include them.

I was about to send out a post about all the changes and about new things, but the message above made me think that I could at least make sure you’re all OK with those things. I’ll write about the other bits and bobs very soon! All best, Stephen

http://www.eno.org/see-whats-on/productions/production-page.php?&itemid=1883

When his adored sister’s death awakes him to a realisation of life’s essential absurdity, the Roman emperor Caligula embarks upon an orgy of sexual depravity and sadistic cruelty in an apparently insane attempt to free himself from the shackles of mortality and morality.

Based upon Albert Camus’s existentialist response to the rise of Hitler and Stalin, but as topical as ever in the era of Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi, Detlev Glanert’s 2006 opera – ‘perhaps the finest German opera of the 21st century’ (Tempo) – offers a disturbing insight into the self-destructive logic driving a decadent and dangerous dictatorship.

The Commentary can be viewed here, or via the Courses menu on the website. Though anyone can read the commentary, only TCL members can leave their comments on it and discuss their ideas and questions with the author, Ingo Gildenhard, who contributes his own comments. The commentary is published by Open Book Publishers, a not-for-profit organisation, who even allows their titles to be read free of charge on Google Books. It’s all about giving you the best and most up-to-date scholarship, as readily and freely as possible, and we really hope that you will take a few minutes to offer some thoughts on all of this.

The survey is for TCL members only, so please log into the site, then click on the ‘Cicero Feedback’ link in the ‘Courses’ menu (see below).

You can answer as many or as few of the questions as you choose, and write as much or as little as you prefer, though of course the more you can tell us the better we can help.

If you have any questions or anything else to say which you can’t in the survey, then please, as always, just get in touch.

Thank you, so very much, and here’s to many more exciting things at The Classics Library!

Stephen

I will post the results on the UK page of www.ciceroconcordia.com  later in the day for those who can’t get to the conference.

As well as significant cash prizes and book tokens funded by our generous sponsors (details on the prizewinners’ list), nine lucky winners will receive a signed book donated by Lindsey Davis, Peter Wiseman, Ingo Gildenhard, Natalie Haynes, Kathryn Tempest, Boris Johnson or Mary Beard.  We really appreciate the support we receive from such eminent Classicists and we know how much it inspires our students.

Full Time Teacher of Classics
required from September 2012 / January 2013

We seek a qualified and enthusiastic teacher to join a talented and thriving Classics Department, to teach Latin and Greek with the opportunity to teach Classical Civilisation. This is an excellent opportunity, possibly for a NQT, to join a successful department within a girls’ school with a long tradition of academic excellence.

For further details and an application form, please contact:
HR Administration e: office [at] maynard [dot] co [dot] uk | t: 01392 273417
or download directly here:

Job Description | Application Form

The closing date for completed application forms is 31 May 2012

Interviews will take place week beginning 18 June 2012

The Maynard is committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening is applied to all posts.

The Maynard School, Denmark Road, Exeter, Devon EX1 1SJ
www.maynard.co.uk

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We are  passionate about raising money to enable the teaching of Classics in state schools and we need the help of more volunteers to research and write interesting material for our new website.  We need people who can research and write stories for our News, Projects and Calendar pages.  You must be familiar with using WordPress, will work from home and be able to spare 2-4 hours each week.

Please go to our website at www.classicsforall.org.uk  for information about us.  For more details about the work itself, please email our Communications  Director, Lorna Bower at lorna [dot] bower [at] ntlworld [dot] com or call her on 07960 621518   0208 997 6616

Friends of Classics Summer seminar
http://www.friends-classics.demon.co.uk
June 9th 2012
Barjarg Tower, Auldgirth, Dumfries

Programme

10.30 Coffee
11am The comedy of manners in Homer and Virgil, Professor David West and Dr Peter Jones (Newcastle)
12 noon Words and Ideas: the Classical connection, Adrian Spooner (Lingo)
1pm Lunch
2pm Ancient Greek Music, Dr David Creese (St Andrews, British Columbia and Lecturer in Classics at Newcastle)
3pm Women in Roman Britain, Dr Lindsay Allason-Jones (emerita Director of Archaeological Museums and Reader in Roman Material Culture, Newcastle)
4pm Tea

Cost: £30.

Please make cheques out to Friends of Classics and send to:
Jeannie Cohen, 51 Achilles Road, London NW6 1DZ.
Please enclose e-mail address or a stamped addressed envelope for acknowledgement and full travel instructions for travel to Barjarg Tower by car or train (taxi from Dumfries station, c. £15. It may be possible to arrange shared taxis).

KS2/3 Latin

WJEC Roman Civilisation

GCSE Classical Civilisation

GCSE Greek Literature

GCSE Latin Literature

GCSE Latin Language

AS/A2 Latin Literature

AS/A2 Greek Literature

AS/A2 Classical Civilisation

Thank you to everyone who uploads resources!