Ben Johnson

Maine Latin Teacher, YouTuber @latintutorial, 2025 Penobscot County Teacher of the Year, 2026 Maine Teacher of the Year Finalist. Check out

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

If you head over to https://t.co/yBH1ygrOV3 right now, you'll notice a brand new look that's been my big focus over the last few years. It's still in a beta preview because who knows what bugs exist until a lot of people hit my code and servers. 1/15

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@sentantiq Reading about the umbrella pine over Vesuvius for AP Latin led to non-stop pine tree references for the rest of the year.

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@miserabiliter Betteridge’s law of headlines seems to apply here to the title of this: "Obvia Signis Signa: A Signature in the Proem to Lucan’s Bellum Civile?" NO

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@veriloquia @DAMendelsohnNYC Aeneas *is* the anti-Odysseus, especially in his personality.

[Louise 🔸 (France 5-15/7, Berkeley 22/7-12/8) @LeRoyDesCimes]

The Epic of Gilgamesh is remarkable in that it's a 4,000-year-old text but it gets new content faster than ASOIAF

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

Kind of sheds new light on the Aeneid too.

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

Working on a new activity for https://t.co/BbzRkrJOyw. 🤔

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

The Maine DOE visited my school yesterday for the final round of the Maine Teacher of the Year. I couldn't have asked for a better day. https://t.co/PQH8KBEh6R

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@piniferalittera I think big rivers having seven mouths is a trope. Hardie suggests that the Romans didn’t even know of the Ganges delta during V’s time, and suggests the amnes are tributaries.

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

It's even funnier because it should be *them* not *they* lol

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

43 BC: Marcus Tullius Cicero est omnis divisus in partes tres, quarum una caput est, alia truncus, tertia manus…

{Rather macabre. Sorry).

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@BretDevereaux Pliny and Trajan use “aquae ductus” in their Book 10 exchange (which every AP Latin student will soon read).

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@EllenLeePhD @lenofi Since I learned from Wheelock’s, my videos almost perfectly line up with that sequence.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

Yes.

I learned Fortran and studied Latin in 1973-4.

One of them is now
effectively a dead language, the other provides constant inspiration!

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@MagisterConway @DCComm In my own limited database (just a few works), I have multitudo about 1.5x as frequent as turba.

[Classics/TPE at Castle Court Prep @CastleCourtClas]

Yr7 Latinists have just had a complete ‘Geek-Out’ over tenses (thanks to @latintutorial - cheers, Ben!). So many links made to other languages they know…. #CastleCourtCurious 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇩🇪

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

@sentantiq My students often think this too

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

PTC = Penobscot Theatre Company, my local professional theater group. The most recent show they did was Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play, which shows the making of myth in a modern context. Maybe the best thing I've seen on stage anywhere.

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

Not Latin related, but this is near and dear to my heart. It's @PTCtheatre's Giving Day today. You may not be near Bangor, Maine, to enjoy any of the amazing performances on our local stage, but supporting the arts, especially local ones, is a universal act that betters society.

[Ben Johnson @latintutorial]

So if you have even just a few dollars (or equivalent) to donate, head on over to https://t.co/OMBZd8Qy4E and do your part to make sure my own personal favorite arts organization gets the support they need. And be sure to put my name in the "In Honor Of" field so I get credit!