kids books

Some Friday afternoon fun, not really Latin related. I've been reading a lot of kids books lately, here are three of my favourites:

• the elephant and the balloon
• everyone is different
• all my friends are dead

And here's a short selection of kids music from They Might Be Giants, just for fun:

• Nine Bowls of Soup
• Nine Pirate Girls
• Nonagon

videmus*

I stumbled across some hilarious youtube videos the other of Eddie Izzard giving some reflections both on learning Latin and on Roman history more generally. I've never really seen much of his stuff before, but as well as being very funny, he seems to be pretty intelligent. He is also very rude (don't watch these videos if you're put off by swearing).

Anyway, you can find them here:

• Pliny
• Hannibal
• more Hannibal (good material, poor quality video)

*videmus is the correct Latin plural of video, right?

15 second Odyssey

Here's a fantastic video I came across on youtube the other day - The Odyssey in 15 seconds:

I especially like the sirens and the cyclops.