Lampas - Volume 51, Issue 3, 2018

Summary The story about Odysseus and Polyphemus in Odysseybook 9 is an exciting one: men trapped in a giant cannibal’s cave, followed by a spectacular exit. This story becomes even more exciting when we carefully analyse its structure and narratological techniques. Such an analysis quickly makes clear that this story is more than just a story. It foreshadows the struggle Odysseus will have to undertake in the second h Read More

Summary In 2000, a lead curse tablet was found in Bodegraven, at or near the site of a small Roman fort on the southern bank of the river Rhine. The text was first examined and interpreted by Jan Kees Haalebos (Haalebos and Polak 2007), who recognized a list of 21 personal names and the first word of a closing formula of four short lines. In the present article a drawing of the tablet is published for the first time and a new r Read More

Summary Modern*Dit artikel is geschreven ter ere van het 25 jaar bestaan van Labrys reizen. Duidelijk moge zijn dat de activiteiten van Labrys in een lange traditie van reizen staan. Hopelijk kunnen zij deze nog lang blijven voortzetten. visitors to Mycenae, which will include many classicists, are likely to wonder in amazement at the enormous stone blocks which were piled up to construct the enclosure walls, and may well pau Read More

Summary This article discusses the ineffective dictionary use by school pupils while translating Latin and Greek texts. Although widely acknowledged by teachers as problematic, surprisingly little research has been done on the subject. We do know that pupils show excessive lookup behaviour, which suggests that they consider the use of their dictionary as the most important ‘strategy’ for understanding authentic te Read More

Summary This article provides an example of how to read Cicero’s early speech in defence of Sextus Roscius junior according to the positional reading method. This reading method is based on a colometric reading of Latin texts and emphasizes the tension between the neutral word order and the word order that was chosen by the author. This tension is made visible for students and their teachers by a scheme that shows t Read More

Summary This*Ik dank de anonieme reviewers van een eerdere versie van dit signalement voor hun waardevolle inhoudelijke suggesties en nuttige aanvullingen op de literatuur. brief contribution contains an overview of recent translations and (introductory) literature that can be useful in studying the Herodotus passages that have been selected for the high school exam ancient Greek in 2019. These revolve around the th Read More