Dr David Butterfield

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Dr David Butterfield is a Lecturer in Ancient Literature and a Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge. His publications include The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (Cambridge, 2013), A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (ed., with C.A. Stray, Duckworth, 2009) and The Penguin Latin Dictionary (ed., with R. Shorrock, Penguin, 2007), while for Politeia he was co-author of Latin for Language Lovers: Ancient Languages, the New Curriculum and GCSE (2013).

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Education and Healthcare - Recent Publications

‘Latin for Language Lovers: Ancient Languages, the New Curriculum and GCSE’, by David Butterfield, Stephen Anderson, Katharine Radice and Dominic Sullivan

By Dr David Butterfield
July 24, 2013

Equal Opportunities for Latin! Allow translation into Latin at GCSE and include Latin in national curriculum, teachers urge Michael Gove in new Politeia study PDF: Latin for...

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