Emily Matters's Page

Hometown/Institution:

Pymble Ladies' College, Sydney

Role in the Classics Classroom (real or virtual):

teacher

About Me:

I am Head of the Classics Department at my school, teaching Latin and Classical Greek. I am a graduate of the University of Sydney and completed my PhD in Classics with a thesis entitled "Aeneas in the Antipodes: the teaching of Virgil in NSW throughout the 20th century".

Favorite on-line spots for the Classics:

The Latin Library
Three Millennia of Greek Literature
The Classics Page

Favorite on-line spots for education:

I don't really have any. I search under topics that interest me and arrive at articles in Jstor which I usually print out to read.

Best/worst computer-related classroom happening:

Reading Aeneid 12. 684 ff- simile about a falling boulder that destroys everything in its way. Student immediately called up images of just such a happening in Italy recently on her laptop and sent the image to me and the whole class. It was a perfect illustration and so timely.