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Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles Online
By admin | March 5, 2010
Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles Online
A classics professor says students in his Latin classes are usually lousy translators of Horace and Ovid—mainly because they don’t understand the cultural references in their poetry.
So now the professor, Roger Mr. Travis Jr., requires students to do weekly role-playing exercises online to put themselves in the shoes (or sandals) of the ancient Romans.
For Mr. Travis, an associate professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at the University of Connecticut,
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