Young Classicists: The Golden Age!
When we received the list of finalists for the Young Classicist Awards we were thrilled and immensely proud, as it was chock full of Conlethian Young Classicists! And that pride reached hubristic proportions, when our Classics Kids army, 91 hoplites strong, descended upon UCD and carried off the bling, with Fifth Years winning the Senior […]
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…Younger! Yes, Pliny the Elder, the Commodore of the Imperial Roman Fleet based at Misenum, was the famous eye witness to the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, but it was Pliny the Younger who actually wrote the letters that preserved that memory, and was the answer to question XXXIV in the Ides of March (and […]
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