{"id":389878,"date":"2010-03-04T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlt.fandm.edu\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:16:07","slug":"classics-professor-requires-latin-students-to-play-ancient-roman-roles-online-%e2%80%93-wired-campus-%e2%80%93-the-chronicle-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389878","title":{"rendered":"Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles Online \u2013 Wired Campus \u2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A classics professor says students in his Latin classes are usually lousy translators of Horace and Ovid\u2014mainly because they don&#8217;t understand the cultural references in their poetry.<\/p>\n<p>So now the professor, Roger Travis Jr., requires students to do weekly role-playing exercises online to put themselves in the shoes (or sandals) of the ancient Romans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogPost\/Classics-Professor-Requires\/21625\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29\">Classics Professor Requires Latin Students to Play Ancient Roman Roles Online &#8211; Wired Campus &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1446\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=tlt.fandm.edu&#038;blog=7318144&#038;post=1446&#038;subd=tltatfandm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classics professor says students in his Latin classes are usually lousy translators of Horace and Ovid\u2014mainly because they don&#8217;t understand the cultural references in their poetry. So now the professor, Roger Travis Jr., requires students to do weekly role-playing exercises online to put themselves in the shoes (or sandals) of the ancient Romans. &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}