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The Legends of the Moons II

Mars: Deimos and Phobos Ares with Deimos and Phobos The Red planet is orbited by two moons: Phobos orbits three times a day,...

The Legends of the Moons

The idea for this new series for BloggusClassicus came as I was exploring the planets and dwarf planets with my space mad four-year-old....

Herodotus III is here!

Dear All, sorry for the lack of posts in recent months. Finishing book number two, moving and starting a wonderful new teaching job have...

The WOW Factor - Classics and I

On November 2nd 2023, Gavin McCormack, globally renowned Montessori educator, founder of EducationInfluence.com and co-founder of...

Beautiful Sirmione!

Sirmione on Lake Garda is a gorgeous place – peaceful and unspoiled. It is also the subject of the Work of the Week explored in this...

Show Me Your METAL! Part III.

In this final instalment of ‘Show Me Your Metal’, we shall look at four metallic elements which were not known to the ancients, but whose...

Show Me Your Metal! Part II

Greetings all, welcome to part two of three in the series on Greek and Latin derived symbols in the periodic table. This article...

Show me your METAL! Part 1

Okay, so I am a better Classicist than I am a comedian. And so in this entry for Wordy Wonders, we look at the origins of key chemical...

The Scene of Dreams

We have all dreamt., and these may be some familiar scenes: mash ups of scenes and settings familiar to us, but which aren’t normally...

Pro Animalibus:For World Animal Day

Humans being fond of their animals is nothing new. We may think we are ‘kinder’ nowadays, and we do have a greater awareness of ‘Animal...

Another kind of narrow…

I came across an article the other day that queried the relevance of degrees in the modern job market. This annoyed me for two main...

The Classical Lens

To study another language is to study another people. To study their literature, music, art, science, engineering, daily practices and...

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