Pompeiiana IX.7, March 1983

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Pompeiiana XVII.3, November 1990

A Farewell Message from Pompeiiana Newsletter, Then and Now

It is not without some sadness that the Pompeiiana Newsletter blog project comes to a close. I have, for the better part of the past 13 months, posted five issues per week of Dr. Bernard Barcio's labor of love, his Pompeiiana Newsletter, which ran from 1974 until the end of the 2002-2003 school year. It is my hope that Latin teachers, students, and enthusiasts, will continue to return to this blog to mine it for Latin readings, recipes, puzzles and games, comics, and insight into a cornucopia of Classics topics. With nearly 250 issues, the activities within Pompeiiana's pages are seemingly endless. This blog shall remain free and open to the public and should serve as a way to continue promoting Latin both in and out of schools, and to stand as a testament to the love and devotion Dr. Barcio gave to the Latin language and to ancient Mediterranean culture and history.

May Barcio's work also serve to inspire those who wish to regularly promote Latin and Classical Studies on a national or global stage both now and in the future. Take this as a challenge, then.

Andrew Reinhard
Pompeiiana Newsletter online editor
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
March 11, 2010

From the final issue:

"Pompeiiana, Inc., Now Part of History"

It had a long run, almost thirty years from the summer of 1974 to the summer of 2003! The time has comes, however, for the founder and Executive Director of Pompeiiana, Inc., Dr. Bernard F. Barcio, to retire, and for Pompeiiana, Inc., to cease its operations.

Pompeiiana, Inc., was definitely a labor of love for Dr. and Mrs. Lillian Barcio who, in addition to raising a family and juggling several different careers, devoted their lives to the ten primary purposes spelled out in Pompeiiana's Articles of Incorporation:

1. Aid in maintaining and expanding outstanding classical studies programs which are already functioning at the secondary school level.
2. Devise local, state and national media promotional tactics.
3. Act as a resource center for all material and programs released to classical studies for secondary schools.
4. Deliver enrichment programs to Latin, English and Ancient History classrooms.
5. Formulate and present programs on classical studies to secondary school assemblies and community groups.
6. Supply secondary school counselors and administrators with promotional materials for classical studies programs.
7. Sponsor and coordinate such nation-wide Latin-oriented multi-discipline projects as the National Catapult Contest.
8. Conduct special interest programs in Classical studies for local and state area youth and adults.
9. Sponsor high-interest summer study/travel programs in Classical Studies.
10. Continually generate and sponsor the production of new materials, programs and approaches to accomplish the above-mentioned goals.

Dr. and Mrs. Lillian Barcio are proud that all of the above primary purposes were well-achieved, with the exception of #9, for which adequate funding could never be obtained.

Pompeiiana, Inc., is proud to have introduced Latin teachers and students across the nation to The National Catapult Contest, National Chariathons for Latin, Latin Weekender Conferences, a Persona-Presenters Speakers Bureau, an annual Textbook Giveaway Program, and the Pompeiiana Newsletter, the only national monthly publication in the world for secondary school students of Latin.

It is also proud to have produced and made available to Latin teachers a Ferias Agamus booklet, a set of Latin Cultural Drill Tapes and Accompanying Study Sheets, The Life and Training of a Roman Legionnaire Video, a set of Roman Emperor Posters and more. The copyrights on these items are available for purchase by interested publishers.

Article 15 of the Articles of Incorporation of Pompeiiana, Inc., spells out how its dissolution be handled:

"Upon the dissolution of the corporation, the Board of Directors shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all of the liabilities of the corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Board of Directors shall determine at the time of dissolution."

Dr. and Mrs. Lillian Barcio, along with the members of the Board of Directors, thank all those students, teachers, classicists, supporters and friends who have helped Pompeiiana, Inc., promote Classical Studies during the past twenty-nine years.

Valete Omnes!
May 2003

*The image above is of Dr. Barcio, taken by Dan Lurie, www.geekfriendly.org, and is used by permission.

FINAL ISSUE! Pompeiiana XXIX.9, May 2003

Content: "Pompeiiana, Inc., Now Part of History", "Bellum Recentissimum in Terra Antiquissima", "The Beautiful Violacaevirflaruber", "Tabularium Confidential", assorted poems, "Augustus Gets 'Pumped Up'", "Spring Return of Persephone Challenged", "Bubble Ant", "The Romans Had them All: Split Days, Work Days, Half Days, Free Days", "Ariadne, After the Minotaur", Roga Me Aliquid, "Making Latin Live", "An Easy Read", Ludi, "Occasio Ultima Has Res Emendi", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.8, April 2003

Content: "Petrus Cuniculus", "If You Want to Write . . . Move to Rome!", assorted poems, "Mysterious Lady of Eleusis", "Legal or Illegal, Greece Wants Them Back!", "Take a (Spring) Break", "One Last Embrace", "Strange Encounters of the Odyssean Kind", "April Fool", "Those Tactics Will 'Gitcha' Every Time!", Roga Me Aliquid, "Catullus LXIII: A Prologue", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Cooking Up Roman Beliefs, Ludi, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.7, March 2003

Content: "Alexandra: 'Unum propositum bonum potest mutare mundum!'", "Rome's Man for All Seasons", assorted poems, "Salvete, Discipuli!", "Caesar's Cursus Honorum", "Arma (Virumque) Cano", "Roman Fantasies", "A Memorable World Leader", "The Journal of the Goddess Diana", "Ares: Mythology's Underdeveloped Character", Roga Me Aliquid, "Groundbreaking Architecture", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Orbis Iuliae, Ludi, "Annabel Lee" in Latin, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.6, February 2003

Content: "Georgius Washingtonius", "Publishing: Ancient Roman Style", assorted poems, "Newly Unearthed Journal of Augustus", "On Running Through the Streets of Rome", "An Unforgivable Mistake", "Valentine's Day Is Coming", "Pompeia's Lesson", "Get Some Clothes On, Aphrodite!", "A Sheepish Solution", "Those Harry Potter Characters", Roga Me Aliquid, "An Easy Read", "Go For It", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Coarse Bread from the Island of Mykonos, Ludi, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.5, January 2003

Content: "Quis est Bow Wow?", "The Fascinating Story of Rome's First Bridge", "Defining Latin", "The First Eclipse", "Shakespeare in Latin", "If You've Got It, Should You Flaunt It?", assorted poems, "Janus, God of Beginnings", "Think About It!", "Caligula!", "What Good Did It Do Her?", "When in Rome, Don't Get Sick!", "Wait! Don't Hang Up That New Calendar Yet!", Roga Me Aliquid, "An Easy Read", "Casa Romana", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Sweet Roman Toast, Ludi, "Res venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.4, December 2002

Content: "Aureola et Tres Ursi", "Rome Reborn A.D. 1377", "Aesop Exposed and Assassinated!", "Io, Saturnalia!", "Founding Father of America Assassinated", assorted poems, "The Ladies' Gallery", "Roman Slavery", "View from the Hill", "Women in Rome", Roga Me Aliquid, "Ludi Circenses in Indiana", "An Easy Read", "The Baths of Bath", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Palmulae Fartae, Ludi, "High School Latin Students, Here's Your Chance!", "Frmo the Mouths of Physics Majors", "Dona Saturnalica Emenda", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.3, November 2002

Content: "BMW DCCLh1", "Alexander Severus: Twenty-Fourth Emperor of Rome", "Achilles" assorted poems, "The Big 'P' in Ancient Rome", "Five Good Emperors", "The Roman Navy", "A Statue and a Star", "A Latin Student's Lament", "Jupiter's Diary", "From Battlefield to Basilica: The Story Behind the Toga", "An Age of Kindness and Love", Roga Me Aliquid, "An Easy Read", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Fullum Frontonianum, "Mercury: Talk About a Troubled Childhood!", Ludi, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.2, October 2002

Content: "Ashanti", "Roman Locuta Est", "The Waters of Lethe", "Hidden Masks", assorted poems, "Hadrian", "The 'D' Word", "The Many Faces of Venus" play, "Latin Feels Just Fine", Roga Me Aliquid, "An Easy Read", "Palace at Fishbourne", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Aliter Duleia, Ludi, "Kinder and gentler Titus", "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXIX.1, September 2002

Content: "Speculatores Parvuli II", "The Pompei with one 'i'", "Welcome Back, Persephone!", "Pompeii Through Pliny the Elder's Eyes", "If You Thought You New Caesar", assorted poems, "Heus, Buddy, Can You Spare a Cow?", "Excerpts from the Last Journal of Augustus", "The Thirteenth Labor", "Anthony and Cleopatra", "Grammaticus Wanted!", Toga Me Aliquid, "An Easy Read", "Excerpts from the Last Journal of Augustus", "Artemis", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Mustacei, Ludi, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.9, May 2002

Content: "Embolium II: Clonorum Oppugnatio", "To Octavia, with Brotherly Love", assorted poems, "Quit Writing in Hen Scratches", "The Many Faces of Cupid", "Latin Enrollments Soaring", "Virago Romana", "And We Didn't Invent Handball Either!", "Latin Cultural Immersion Institute", "Women's Rights", "Minoan Roots", "An Interview with Catullus", "New Latin Grammar Now Online", "Cow-Eyed Goddess Hung Out to Dry", "Building Nero's House", Roga Me Aliquid, "The Shocking Work of Praxiteles", "Erechtheon Floats into History", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Pullus Oilvis Fartilis, Ludi, "A Brief Encounter with Death", "Is Titus Doing Enough for Pompeii?", "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.8, April 2002

Content: "Argomentom Calidom", "The Good Sisters of Yesteryear", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Naughty Little Twins", "Triumph Over the Monster", "The Great Adventures of Publius and Furianus", "Darryl Strawberry's Herculean Labors", "Minotaur Defeated!", "Being Unfaithful is Abuse!", "Slippery Little Nero", "Five Former Olympic Greats", Roga Me Aliquid, "Olympia and the Olympic Games", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Panes ex Farina Avenacea", Ludi, "Oh, What a Year It Was!", "Athenians Defeat Persians at Marathon", reading comprehension questions, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.7, March 2002

Content: "Taeda Olympiaca: Accende Intus Ignem", "The 4 Horsemen of Rome", assorted poems, "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Scylla", "For Whom the Rooster Crows", "Pompeia, the Latin Class Phoenicoptera", "From Republic to Empire to . . . Hitler?", "A Thirst for History", "Rome: Fashion Center of the World", Roga Me Aliquid, "The Parthenon: An Incredible Sight", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Melopeponae Aquates et Melopeponae Mellis Roscidi, Ludi, "Mind Saver", "It's Off to School they Went", "Res Venum Datae", reading comprehension questions from page one, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.6, February 2002

Content: "Iacobulus Neutron: Puer Ingeniosus", "Petrarch: The Latin Lover", "Where the Boys Are", assorted poems, "First There was Latin in Harry Potter", "'Blackbird' Lyrics", "The Rites of Spring", "Phoebe", "The Find", "Lost, Lonely & Looking for Love", "Latin Reclassified as a Foreign Language", "Math and Science in Roman Schools", "The Search for Atlantis", "Hanukkah Error", Roga Me Aliquid, "The Roman Colosseum", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Libum, Ludi, reading comprehension questions from page one, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.5, January 2002

Content: "Tripping Over Dead Romans", "Anulorum Dominus", "The Raucous Roman Forum", "Happy New Year!", "Little Latin Lovers", "It Finally All Makes Sense", "Solution to the Tower of Babel", "Watching Troy Fall", "These Rolling Stones", "Starting the Year Off Right", "It Finally All Makes Sense", horoscope for 2002, assorted poems, "Outsmarting the Sphinx, "King Midas with a Twist for the Mythologically Miffed", "Just When You Thought They Were Passe", "Greeks Draw Collegiate Criticism", "Much Ado About a German", "Sancti Lares et Penates", "Just Tell 'em Once!", "Is There a Doctor in the House", Roga Me Aliquid, Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Country-Style Ancient Greek Bread, "Lower the Curtain, Start the Play", Ludi, reading comprehension questions from page one, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.4, December 2001

Content: "Is there a Santa Claus?", "Quattor Animalia Cantantia Celebrant Saturnalia", "The Bishop of Rome to the Rescue", "Those Wonderful December Holidays", "Cicero: A Man for All Tempora Moresque", "September 11 & Thucydides", "Cleopatra", assorted poems, "The Language of Scholars and Students", "Hydra's Side of the Story", "Garrison Keillor on Latin Translation", "Classic Horizon", "The Heroic Runaway", "The King and I", "Surfin' the Roman Empire", Roga Me Aliquid, "Watching Time Pass", "Flavian Amphitheater: What a Building!", Ancient Greek & Roman Recipes: Cancer Pagurus cum Heleoslino Ovisque, "Bene Lava!", Ludi, reading comprehension questions from page one, "Res Venum Datae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.3, November 2001

Content: "Vigiles Heroici", "Farewell to the Lira", assorted poems, "Fall Fashions in Rome", "The Lost Son: A One-Act Play", "Conchology", "Villae et Domus Romanae", "The Roman Army Wants You!", "King Midas' Golden Brew Lives Again", "Polyphemus", "Two Thousand Year Old Town: Modern Roman Restaurant", Roga Me Aliquid, "Porta Nigra", Ancient Greek & Roman Recipes: Caroetae Cum, Ludi, "Parliamo Lingua Latina!", "Let's Not Get Cynical About English", "Res Venum Datae", comics page, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Pompeiiana XXVIII.2, October 2001

Content: "Fredericuius Prinzus, Junior", "The Basilica as Courthouse", "Classical Studies Central to a Liveral Arts Education", "Jefferson Touts Latin!", assorted poems, "Circus Maximus", "The Aeneid, Book I: A One-Act Play", "Swimmer's Surprise", "Beware of Falling Leaves . . . and Cadavers!", "Play Time in Egypt", "The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius", "Me. Myself and Brenus", "Catullus: The Rest of the Story", "Aemilia: Gladiatrix Pompeiana", Roga Me Aliquid, "Honey, I Shrunk the Monuments of Rome!", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Gallina in Vino Albo Cocea, Ludi, "Res Venum Datae", reading comprehension questions from page one, comics page, asnwer key for teachers.