Further to my comments on 8 February about attempts to bring Classics alive – I came across Joan Coderch’s AKWN – Acropolis World News – the news in ancient Greek …

The latest – Russian election candidate vanishes – first US born panda heading to China – Haitian cities erupt in violent revolt

I reminds me of my school days – Latin and Greek prose composition – translating a Churchill speech into Thucydidean Greek, a passage from Macaulay into Livy’s Latin. I thought then that I was living the end of an era in Classics …