Salvete, Omnes!

Conference season is in full swing, and you can visit us in the book displays (and attend the papers and workshops featuring Bolchazy-Carducci eLearning) at Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo (May 7-10), and at the American Classical League Institute in Los Angeles (June 26-28). This issue of eLitterae features reports from the recent conferences for CANE, CAMWS, and CA/CAS, plus Medieval Latin book specials, Medieval Latin links, and a message from Dr. Lou Bolchazy.

At Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, we consider ourselves and our readers to be scholars of Latin, not limiting ourselves to Rome, but rather reaching out to some of history’s greatest thinkers who wrote some of the best Latin in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods. This love of all periods of Latin is reflected in Latin for the New Millennium, especially in the forthcoming Level II textbooks. We have also assembled a Medieval Latin focus group, which will hold its first meeting at Medieval Congress in May to determine what post–fourth-century Latin materials we can produce to keep this exciting period of Latin alive and well in both high schools and universities. Watch this space for updates!

For up-to-the-minute news and a daily dose of Latin, follow us on
Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/bcpublishers!

Andrew Reinhard
eLitterae Managing Editor
Director of eLearning
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

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We’d like to see you, at a
VERY IMPORTANT SESSION

“What’s New in Latin Textbooks”

This session, Friday June 26,
will evaluate the existing Latin textbooks
including the

BRAND NEW SERIES

• Talk to the authors: Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg.

• Visit with the publishers, editors, and have your book signed by the authors at a special reception

• Visit the Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers exhibit to meet with LeaAnn Osburn, Lou Bolchazy, Marie Bolchazy, Allan Bolchazy, Andrew Reinhard, or the Authors

Program Information
(513) 529-7741; http://www.aclclassics.org/institute/2009

For Registration Information:
The American Classical League
Email: Info@aclclassics.org

A list of schools using the brand new
“Latin for the New Millennium”
will be on exhibit

Special Discounts for eLitterae Subscribers

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers also invites its eLitterae subscribers to take advantage of a 50%, single-copy discount on one of the following titles for April:

Medieval Mosaic: A Book of Medieval Latin Readings

Millennium: A Latin Reader, ad 374–1374
F. E. Harrison
ISBN  978-0-86516-191-7, $45.00 $22.50

Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica
F. W. Garforth
ISBN 978-0-86516-218-1, $29.00 $14.50

A Byzantine Novel: Drosilla and Charikles
Translated by Joan Burton
ISBN 978-0-86516-536-6, $39.00 $19.50

One copy, prepaid, no returns, not available to distributors. Offer expires 05/15/09.

Make sure you mention that you are an eLitterae subscriber when you place your order. If you place your order via the Bolchazy-Carducci web site at www.BOLCHAZY.com, during checkout please enter "No. 63" (withouth the quotation marks) in the Comments field. Your discount will be verified and applied after your order is placed.

Monthly Specials are available on our website, check our "Special Offers" link.

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Starting in June, Latin teachers teach Latin teachers online in Bolchazy-Carducci Publisher's second annual, weekly series of online seminars. We have some exciting new sessions this year on Vergil, Catullus, Cicero, etymology, Roman culture, and Latin 2.0, not to mention two sessions from Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg including a Virtual Conventiculum! Returning favorites Rose Williams and Anna Andresian will reprise their popular sessions from 2008.

Whether you’re a new Latin teacher looking for teaching tips or are a seasoned veteran continuing your professional development, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers offers you a diverse menu of options to give you what you need. You may be eligible for credit hours towards recertification; check with your school, district, or state to confirm.

More than just an online lecture, attendees can dialogue with each other and the speakers live, view presentations, and explore teaching materials used by the speakers themselves.

June 9: Ronnie Ancona — New Ways of Teaching Vergil's Aeneid*
June 17: Helena Dettmer — The Agony and the Ecstasy of Catullus' Love Affair with Lesbia
June 23: Anna Andresian — Using Oral Latin in Your Classroom
July 9: Bill Dominik — Exploring Etymology in Your Latin Classes
July 16: Rose Williams — Oral Latin via Readings in Roman History
July 21: Jayne Reinhard — Roman Art and Archaeology for Latin Teachers
July 23: Jayne Reinhard — Daily Life in Ancient Rome
July 30: Laura Gibbs — Latin 2.0: Personal Learning Networks
August 6: Rose Williams — Learning Latin Pronouns via Roman Mythology
August 13: Jon Hall — Latin Oral Interpretation and Performance via Cicero
September 23: Milena Minkova & Terry Tunberg — Training Techniques for Spoken Latin Expression (beginners)
September 30: Milena Minkova & Terry Tunberg — Virtual Conventiculum (advanced - no English will be used)

For more detailed descriptions and to sign up online, please visit http://www.bolchazy.com/webinars.html.

Individual webinars are $99.00. Select any three for $249.00, or take all 12 for $749.00. Register online at the above web address.

Class size is limited to 30. Minimum enrollment is set at five participants unless otherwise noted with a (*) which requires a minimum enrollment of 10. If a webinar is cancelled due to low enrollment, participants can choose to take a different webinar or may opt for a refund.

CAMWS - Classical Association Middle West and South

The 2009 CAMWS conference (April 1–4) found four Bolchazy-Carducci representatives in Minneapolis, ready to talk all things Classical with conferees. Andrew Reinhard and the full flotilla of Bolchazys—Lou, Marie, and Allan—displayed Latin for the New Millennium and fielded questions about this innovative fusion Latin program. Level I curriculum is already in classrooms and receiving enthusiastic response. Proofs of Level II, which launches in time for fall semester ordering, were available for examination. The B-C Latin Readers series was represented by its first published volume, A Lucan Reader by Susanna Braund. Conferees were excited to be able to purchase this volume, and also to see proofs for A Terence Reader by William S. Anderson. Plautus and Sallust readers are scheduled for 2009 release. Over 20 titles are in the pipeline.

Manning the B-C booth and talking with our colleagues in Classics keeps us current on innovations in curricula and pedagogy. Of special interest this year was news from Stephen Smith of the University of Minnesota about his department’s response to the high-school curricular challenges in light of recent changes to the Latin Advanced Placement exams. Stephen’s department offers two Latin courses, taught by qualified high-school teachers, which may be taken by high-school students for college credit: Latin prose, for which there are choices of author, and Latin poetry, which must include Vergil. For more information, check http://www.cce.umn.edu/cis/index.html.

Regular CAMWS attendees know that the banquet is a conference highlight, and this year’s did not disappoint. Jim May delivered the ovationes, CAMWS’ annual honorary awards. Names of the honorees are held in suspense until the end of each presentation. Excitement builds as Jim enumerates the honoree’s attributes in Latin, dramatically delivered with a dash of affectionate mischief. As Jim declaims, recognition sparks from one banqueter to another. By the time the name is finally read, a hall of smiling faces is already turned toward the honoree. This year, Jenny Strauss Clay and Julia Dyson Hejduk received these very special honors, to enthusiastic applause. Robert Ulery’s presidential address concluded the evening. Rob’s scholarly citations of Cicero’s De Senectute struck a perfect balance with his personal experience to remind us all of the timeless resonance of Cicero’s words.

Andrew Reinhard, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers’ Director of eLearning, was honored at CAMWS with the Outstanding Promotional Activity Award by the Committee for the Promotion of Latin. Reinhard’s work on the eClassics social network for teaching and technology (http://eclassics.ning.com) was cited, as was his creation of the Terence Awards, which honor excellence in student filmmaking for and about Latin.

“Receiving this award is only inspiration to do more in the future for CAMWS and for Classics,” Reinhard said.

The CPL award includes a plaque and a free year’s membership in CAMWS. Lou and Marie Bolchazy accepted the award on Reinhard’s behalf at the CAMWS meetings in Minneapolis on April 3 as he was in-flight to Glasgow to attend the Classical Association conference.

Beautiful skies and the glistening waters of Dorchester Bay beckoned classicists from the six states of New England to the University of Massachusetts Boston campus for the annual CANE (Classical Association of New England) meeting. This meeting was a return to his roots for Bolchazy-Carducci editor and rep Don Sprague as he first studied Latin and Greek at Boston College High School (where the towers on the bay reach heaven’s own blue), UMASS’ neighbor. Jeremiah Mead, who planned the program and now serves as CANE’s president, and Jacquie Carlon, UMass Classics prof extraordinaire and local host, put together an excellent program and ran a wondrously smooth meeting that complemented the stunning setting. The conference area boasted a glorious view of the bay and the Boston Harbor Islands.

New England maintains a strong tradition of classics in the schools both independent and public. Don enjoyed the opportunity to chat with the attendees who are always so eager to learn what’s new, whether at the book exhibit or from the presentations. Folks, both college and high school, were pleased to see the new Lucan Reader as well as Laura Gibbs’ wonderful Aesop’s Fables in Latin. Those familiar with Gibbs’ work were especially excited about her electronic resources. Ed DeHoratius stopped by to chat about his works in progress—three terrific hero stories—Achilles, Odysseus, Aeneas—based on the interactive fiction approach. The first book, Wrath of Achilles, is close to publication. Kudos to Ed whom his peers in Massachusetts honored as their teacher of the year.

Latin for the New Millennium and the imminent publication of Level 2 attracted great interest. Several college professors felt LNM, with its rich cultural materials, would serve as a great introductory college text. The excellent tech facilities of the conference rooms filled the floor to ceiling screen with full color pages of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2 as Don discussed the features of Level 2 that are designed to facilitate a smooth transition from Latin 1&2 to reading Latin authors in Latin 3&4. Don also extolled the virtues of presenting second year students the fullness of Latin literature, that millennium of Latin texts written following the fall of Rome, which delineate the history of ideas in western civilization.

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers recently exhibited Latin for the New Millennium and A Lucan Reader: Selections from Civil War among other select titles at the joint annual meeting of the Classical Association and the Classical Association of Scotland. Andrew Reinhard was assisted in the book exhibit by Anna Foka, Bolchazy-Carducci’s UK liaison.

They had the pleasure of meeting author Caroline Lawrence, famous for her Roman Mysteries series for children (now a BBC television serial), who is quite enthusiastic about what B-C Publishers is doing with its new textbooks and eLearning materials. Chris Ann Matteo of the American Philological Association and Women’s Classical Caucus was also there, as was Mary Beard, fresh from appearing at CAMWS. They also had the chance to speak with Catherine Higgins, Culture and Arts columnist for the Guardian newspaper, about what’s new for old languages.

Reinhard and Foka both had the honor of presenting their research to their British peers. Foka spoke on the Other in Greek Middle Comedy. Reinhard presented a thirty-minute talk on using handheld technologies (phones, iPods, and their ilk) in Latin class to a room full of high school and university teachers. As an added bonus, he gave away several Latin textbooks in support of Ovid and Cicero, the authors currently being taught as part of the AS curriculum (similar to AP in the United States).

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In lieu of a Digital Did-You-Know column this month, I am turning the tables on our eLitterae subscribers. In its pursuit of providing quality, practical, fun eLearning materials to Latin and Greek teachers and students, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is interested in seeing what you have produced for your own classes.

Do you have a PowerPoint slideshow that you are so proud of that you showed it to your family, cats, or non-Latin-loving colleagues? Have you created digital flashcards or computer games that your students enjoy? Do you podcast or create digital movies in support of your curricula?

If so, please send the files or links to areinhard@bolchazy.com. The most interesting, most useful, and most fun projects will be featured on eClassics (http://eclassics.ning.com), and you could be invited to publish your eLearning creations with Bolchazy-Carducci.

I look forward to seeing what you all have done for Latin and Greek pedagogy in this digital age.

Andrew Reinhard
Director of eLearning

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With Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan, just around the corner (May 7-10), here are three websites for Medieval Latin:

Georgetown University offers the Labyrinth, a Latin meta-site containing 116 links to online Medieval resources including manuscripts, bibliography, and lots of Latin:  http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/display.cfm

Dr. Ann Raia of the College of New Rochelle has posted her course syllabus for CLS 340: Medieval Latin. The site includes objectives, links of online Medieval resources, plus detailed information on what is covered week-to-week including links to Latin source material and contextual information on Medieval Latin authors:  http://www.mythfolklore.net/medieval_latin/index.html

At one time or another we have all felt the need to call the Help Desk for some technical support with our computers. Here’s a video for what that might have been like for monks using a codex for the very first time:  http://eclassics.ning.com/video/727885:Video:304

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Comic from When In Rome, Best Cartoons of Pompeiiana Newsletter.
Comic a Day Pompeiiana Blog

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See the Bolchazy-Carducci web site for classroom tips on teaching Catullus and on using children's books translated into Latin, Christmas carols in Latin, and Latin proverbs to teach grammar. In the search box, type "teaching tips" to see all that are available (click on a title to view and click on the teaching tip link).

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Affiliate Web Sites

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