Over the past four weeks, I have been reading with my students (distantly) the first few sections of Book 1 of Caesar’s De bello Gallico. We were focussing on grammar comprehension, but as usual, this has been useful not least for myself in thinking through the text, and its historical implications. Just a brief note about … Continue reading distracting attention the Roman way| Georgy Kantor's blog
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