Robert Erle Barham

1 month ago | forsters.co.uk | Robert Erle Barham |Alfred Liu

7 March 2025 News You might like to think, as a parent, that having seen your son or daughter through school and university (often at huge expense) you can sit back and relax a little and plan for your own retirement.

1 month ago | nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams |Jim Cullen |Robert Erle Barham

I remember the day I first read the opening lines of Vergil’s Aeneid in Latin. I was in 11th grade, and this was the first Latin poetry I got to read on my own, assigned as homework following intense preparations for this moment in class. In Latin (and in Ancient Greek), words in the sentence do not go in a designated order, the way they do in modern English. Instead, the endings of each noun and adjective tell of its role in the sentence (Subject? Direct object? Indirect object?