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This is an excellent guide to the ancient Romans, including feature articles, 3-d virtual tours, games and animations.

This is an excellent guide to the ancient Greeks, including feature articles, 3-d virtual tours, games and animations.

Find out why BBC One decided to delve into the world of ancient Rome and dramatise 500 years of history in "Ancient Rome – The Rise And Fall Of An Empire".

Using contemporary accounts from all levels of society, from the chattering classes to humble foot-soldiers, from senators to slaves, The Roman Way explores different aspects of everyday life, two thousand years ago.

A radio progamme about the Romans in Britain, presented by Melvyn Bragg. You can listen to the programme via the BBC web site.

IRIS is a new magazine, which aims to cultivate modern and imaginative responses to the Classics. Submissions of all kinds are welcomed, and school and university students are particularly encouraged to send material. The magazine is distributed to state schools free of charge. Help us fund this project by subscribing to Iris for £3.
Enquiries and submissions may be sent to lornarobinson@irismagazine.org.
Click on these links to see features from Iris:
How To Be A Witch
Real life stories: A state school student’s experience of Latin

The second half of this article from The Times (entitled Site of Roman battle in Turkey) discusses a site near Dara on the Syrian-Turkish border and the great battle of AD 530 between the Romans and Persians, as researched by Christopher Lillington-Martin.

Latin has been scrapped from many school curricula in the last few decades. Now it is also disappearing in the Roman Catholic Church, the institution which had kept it alive for many centuries. Does this signal the ancient language’s second death since the fall of the Roman Empire?