Lampas - Volume 57, Issue 3, 2024

Abstract In the nineteenth century, plaster casts of antiquities became popular in exhibitions. Copies of Roman antiquities from Belgium and the Netherlands were used in the last century for two exhibitions with a political message in Rome, the Mostra Archeologica (1911) and the Mostra Augustea della Romanità (1937-1938). This article examines the selection process, the political messages that were supported by using t Read More

Abstract The Dutch education system is currently facing an innovation of the high school subjects Greek and Latin. While (learning and interpreting) the languages (and, therefore, the literary sources) will still take center stage, there is also a call for new ways to integrate Greek and Roman culture in the classroom, be it via reception studies, intercultural reflections or/ and actualization. In this article, I examine how Latin insc Read More

Abstract The translation assignment of the final high school exam of Latin in the Netherlands has been a topic of debate in the last decades of Classics education, as it was blamed for poor exam results. Kroon and Sluiter (2010) argue that the translation assignment is an invalid testing method: it does not give insight into the thought process of the student. It can therefore not distinguish between translating and text co Read More