I did a little 'improve your Latin before starting an MA where It might be needed' course as well as the o-level.
I did it straight after an immersion course on Welsh, with the result that the professors gathered around to listen to me reading Latin, as they couldn't work out how I'd got such a good accent. Unfortunately, they were dissapointed to learn how much of Nennius and Gildas I could actually understand.
I got my Latin O-level by noting that the Unseen Translation was usually one of Pliny's letters, and memorising the lot of them. Also because in our syllabus, in addition to seen and unseen translation, you could either do more of the above, or a literature/culture question, and one of the questions was the atrium of the house of the brothers in Pompeii: I think at that point I had memorised the excavation report and just reproduced it.
I'd like to take the opportunity to recommend The Roman House and Social Identity - S. Hales, 2003 and 'Colour and Light in a Pompeian House: Modern Impressions or Ancient Perceptions' Penelope M. Allison in A Jones and G, MacGregor (eds) Colouring the Past. The Significance of Colour in archaeological Research 195-207. I do wonder if that latter paper has had any influence on Dr Who. Probably not, but it would be nice if it did!
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Date: 2008-04-13 12:02 pm (UTC)I did it straight after an immersion course on Welsh, with the result that the professors gathered around to listen to me reading Latin, as they couldn't work out how I'd got such a good accent. Unfortunately, they were dissapointed to learn how much of Nennius and Gildas I could actually understand.
I got my Latin O-level by noting that the Unseen Translation was usually one of Pliny's letters, and memorising the lot of them. Also because in our syllabus, in addition to seen and unseen translation, you could either do more of the above, or a literature/culture question, and one of the questions was the atrium of the house of the brothers in Pompeii: I think at that point I had memorised the excavation report and just reproduced it.
I'd like to take the opportunity to recommend The Roman House and Social Identity - S. Hales, 2003 and 'Colour and Light in a Pompeian House: Modern Impressions or Ancient Perceptions' Penelope M. Allison in A Jones and G, MacGregor (eds) Colouring the Past. The Significance of Colour in archaeological Research 195-207. I do wonder if that latter paper has had any influence on Dr Who. Probably not, but it would be nice if it did!