Downside is a pleasant place and is a very solid bastion of our tradition. I feel lucky to be teaching there from September.
I’m currently reading Livy XXX in preparation for next term’s teaching. We have a small group taking A2 Latin, and I wondered if there would be anything Livy-related on the website!If anyone has Livy XXX teaching notes that would help Sheila and others, please send them to me to go on the web site.
We take OCR GCSE and AS/A2. Latin and Classical Civilisation are both quite popular, and we have a Greek club – extra-curricular, which can lead to GCSE.
Sancton Wood results. Latin 2004: 3 x A stars, 2 x A's, 1 x C laetissimus sum. pax vobiscum. Russell (Lord)
"I liked the Homeric effect with the digitalized and aerial views of the battles," Lee said. "I thought those were wonderful. Homer has this Olympian view of what's going on in The Iliad, which is very much like watching a movie. He doesn't put himself in the middle of it. He watches from a distance. Everything is beautiful, as expressed in these great Homeric similes — the two armies clashing like waves in the sand, or flies around a milk pail.
But Homer is also master of the medium shot and the close-up, so to speak. In the middle of a battle he will switch focus from the big picture to these two men locked in mortal combat, and suddenly it's as if the rest of the battle has disappeared. At those points, the spotlight often falls on Achilles, portrayed by Brad Pitt..."
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