Lampas - Volume 57, Issue 2, 2024

Abstract Until now, a broad overview of Latin didactics in Flanders as a whole was missing. For the first time, we submitted the Flemish practices of teaching Latin to a large-scale survey, in which over 200 teachers took part. The focal point of our survey was the position of grammar in present-day instruction. In order to quantify this instructional aspect and be able to make detailed comparisons between groups of teachers, we Read More

Abstract This article focuses on interdisciplinarity in Dutch gymnasia. Even though interdisciplinary education knows many advantages and is a shared ambition among many teachers, it is not a prominent feature of school curricula in the Netherlands. Which problems do gymnasium teachers experience when developing interdisciplinary education at their schools? What are features of ‘best practices’? And what do te Read More

Abstract This article examines the role that references to classical literature play in the HBO-series Succession (2018-2023). Over the course of four seasons, the characters of the series refer to various figures and works from Greek and Latin literature, such as Oedipus, Coriolanus, Nero and Sporus, Plato’s Republic, Pharaoh Rameses II, and Cicero. While aiming to provide a fairly complete overview of these references, I sho Read More

Abstract This article furnishes an analysis of some relevant passages in Livy, Vergil and Ovid, in which the historiographical sources concerning the republican hero Marcus Furius Camillus are used, either explicitly or implicitly. The fashioning of Camillus in Livy’s Ab Urbe condita as a saviour of the nation contains projections from Livy’s own time and suggests an identification with the emperor Augustus. Both Vergil and Ovid app Read More