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I've been re-reading Albert Camus' The Plague and I wanted to share some thoughts. Camus begins by establishing the very ordinariness of Oran. Indeed, the mundanity and blandness of its existence is brought to the forefront. And it takes a bit of a slow build before
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I feel like every single comment I make could start with hisce diebus, such as they are under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such as it is, I've started two small content initiatives that might interest you. Firstly, I've started vlogging on my personal
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Salvete amici! Recently I floated the idea on twitter of offering a Latin course that was entirely composed of playing an RPG in Latin. There seemed good interest, so let's make this happen! Here's the pitch: We will run a game based on the Fate Accelerated
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For a sport of sporting fun, I recently solicited Lord of the Rings quotations on Twitter, which I rendered into Ancient Greek. I have a few outstanding requests yet to fulfil, but here's a wrap-up of the lot (Greek follows the quotation) I am not altogether on
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Recently I was reading an article on the dynamics of language choice, use, and (perceived) ownership between Irish-language majors (i.e. university students) born in the Gaeltacht, hence presumed or actual native speakers, and those not, hence ‘learners’.[1] It’s a fascinating article and well worth a read,
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Download NecantesInNomine.mp3 I did a Latin version of Rage against the Machine's Killing in the Name of Here's an audio: (apologies for not having vocals as good as Zach's) Here's my lyrics: necantes in nomine qui sunt in vigilibus… cruces iidem
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MALS (the Macquarie Ancient Languages School) has been running for almost 40 years now, a 1 (at times 2) week intensive school offering, initially Ancient Greek, but now and for some time a range of ancient languages. It typically runs both a summer and winter course. I first attended MALS
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A question arose from someone about while reading LGPSI, about the distribution between ἐστί and ἐστί(ν), specifically they noted that I sometimes (perhaps more frequently than expected), violated the general rule that movable nu appears before a subsequent vowel. Now, I happen to know intuitively that that rule is
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An excerpt from Homily II in Matthaeum (PG 57) ∆ιὰ τοῦτο διπλῆ γέγονεν ἡ γέννησις, καὶ ἐοικυῖα ἡμῖν, καὶ ὑπερβαίνουσα τὴν ἡμετέραν. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γυναικὸς γεννηθῆναι ἡμῖν συνέβαινε· τὸ δὲ μὴ ἐξ αἵματος, μηδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς ἢ ἀνδρὸς, ἀλλ' ἐκ Πνεύματος ἁγίου, τὴν ὑπερβαίνουσαν ἡμᾶς καὶ
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I've been trying to do some work to write up the kinds of things I aim to do in live classes, which is mostly to develop questions in Greek (or insert appropriate language here) about the text, as we go. I've adapted a lot from the
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After some consultation, I've finalised a list of courses for 2020. They are now available on the Online Courses page. Each of these courses will have carry on courses across 2020, for four terms of 10 weeks each. (e.g. Greek 101, 102, 103, 104 carry you through
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I'm full of initiatives at the moment. The idea for this one came from a friend, to be honest. "What if you read all the Geoffrey Steadman editions of Greek texts??" That's some solid Greek reading there in a very help format. That was