Dead Languages Live!

April 29, 2015

Lingvae Mortvae Vivvnt apvd Vniversitatem Wright State!

Dead Languages Live at Wright State University!    On Monday, April 20th, almost 130 area high school students attended the Classics Department’s first Latin Day, held in WSU’s Student Union.

The students, who are currently taking Latin at Fenwick, Fairmont, and Butler high schools, participated in a variety of activities. WSU Classics students, under the direction of Dr. Bruce Laforse, performed entertaining scenes from Plautus’s famous comedy Miles Gloriosus. Dr. Heidi Wendt gave a tutorial on how to decipher Latin inscriptions carved