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A FIELD TRIP FOR LATIN LOVERS Some school subjects can seem so dry. But take your kids to Italy's Roman ruins and you'l soon inspire them, says Simon O'Hagan
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They're re-running I, Claudius and Up Pompeii on BBC4 at the
moment. Marvellous stuff, which back in the 1970s did rather more to
bring my Latin lessons to life than the painful crawl through the
Annals of Tacitus. Nothing else was going to, because for me in those
days the prospect of visiting the land of ancient Rome was slim. It's
all changed since then, of course.
Last year my daughter went on a school trip that took in Rome and
Pompeii. Such trips are now not untypical. I was envious, and decided
it was time I made a school trip of my own. Thus it was that more
than 30 years after I'd ...
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