Textkit website offers free ancient Greek and Latin learning materials- April 30, 2007 This is just too cool! Now if there was just a learn Italian website that I could use for my upcoming trip!"Textkit was created to help you learn Ancient Greek and Latin! Textkit is the Internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers. With currently 146 free books to choose from, Greek and Latin learners have downloaded 687,131 grammars, readers and classical e-books. There are also many other areas of Textkit which can help you...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/04/textkit-website-offers-free-ancient.html Roman Slavery: The Social, Cultural, Political, and Demographic Consequences- April 29, 2007 by Moya K. Mason"Since the dawn of civilization there were always those who exercised control and power over other people; in other words, in some form or another slavery has been a condition of our history. Even the highly admired and influential civilization of the Ancient Romans did not escape the practise, which eventually came to play an integral role in how their society was run. How did a culture which began as a small farming community on the banks of the Tiber River come to have the...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/04/roman-slavery-social-cultural-political.html British playwright crafts play about the destruction of Carthage- April 29, 2007 STARVED into submission following a three-year siege, Carthage burned at the hands of Rome. Seventeen days on, with the walled city nothing more than a smoking pyre, its once 250,000-strong population reduced to a mere 50,000 slaves, the third Punic war ended, bringing to a close more than a century of conflict between the age-old adversaries. It is against the backdrop of the circumstances leading up to this war that Edinburgh playwright Alan Wilkins has set his second collaboration with the.http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/04/british-playwright-crafts-play-about.html "Ruthless Roman" play teaches history in 3D- April 29, 2007 Now this is an example of the way history should be taught:"AS YOU entered the Whitley Bay Playhouse you could feel the excitement as children of all ages took there seats. Everyone jumped as loud music rattled around the room, entrancing you to wonder what would happen next on the stage.Theyre behind you! the audience cried, as the Ruthless Romans sneaked behind the Barmy Britons. A backdrop of a state-of-the-art electronic screen gave you a virtual visit back into history. Jokes made laughter.http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2007/04/ruthless-roman-play-teaches-history-in.html |