Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Friday, December 18, 2009

Pompeiiana XXV.4, December 1998


Content: "Cantemus Latine!", "Cicero Mortuus Est!", "Ara Coeli . . . Stairway to Heaven", "Turnabout", "An Interview with Augustus Caesar", "Adaptation of Catullus 51", "Winter Solstice" poem, "Cita Itineraque Herculis", "Colorful History of the Celebration of Christmas Revealed by Holiday Customs and Terms", "Martial: Liber X.xlvii", "Sol Invictus" poem, "Roman Art", "Quis Sum?" poem, "Chillin' with Horace: Carmina I.xi" poem, "Concrete Evidence of the Role of Chance in History", "A Girl's Best Friend" poem, "Avoiding Deadly Lapsus Linguae", "King Midas" play, "Fires of Pompeii" poem, "Aurora at Pompeii", Roga Me Aliquid, "Cupid and Psyche" poem, "The Origin of Magistra", "Eternal Influence of the City Eternal", Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Ova Mellita, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, Picturae Moventes, "Trivial Pursuit" wordfind, "Fabulae Greacae Romanaeque" crossword, "Scrambling to See" puzzle, "Panes Cotidiani et Feriati" puzzle, "Latin in Science" crossword, Libri Optimi, "Nomina Historica" puzzle, "Roman Concentration" puzzle, "Roman Farmin'" puzzle, "Six What on a What?" puzzle, "Ode to Echo!", "You Know You're Roman If . . . ", "The Flame" poem, "Oops! Wrong Evelyn!", reading comprehension questions from page one, "Nuntia Utilia Eis Qui Emptitetis", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Pomepiiana XXIV.4, December 1997


Content: "Fabula de Iesu Natu Latina Vulgari Scripta a Sancto Hieronymo", "Pontifex Maximus: Tum et Nunc", "Sorry, Millennium Watchers, You Missed It!", "Saturnalia Gambling" poem, "Fulvia, A Woman of Action", "Ludus Talarius", "Daedalus et Icarus" poem, "The Story of Mt. Olympus", "An Old Man's Tale", "Word Mystery", "What Holy Grail?", "Hey, Aeneas, Tell Us a Story!", "Marpessa and Apollo" poem, "Verbatim Latin Poetry", "Winter" poem, "The Battle of Cannae" game for class, "Iason et Medea", "A Ballad of Aeneas" song, "Ova Spongia ex Lacte" recipe, "Paterno By the Book", "Cook Your Way to Fame", "Turtulous", "Herculaneum", Roga Me Aliquid, Picturae Moventes, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Who's Who in the Aeneid" puzzle, "On the Road Again" puzzle, "Is this Legal?" puzzle, "Colora Hanc Picturam Utens Coloribus Numeratis" puzzle, "Wacky Weather" puzzle, "The Odyssey" crossword, "A Search for a Snake in the Grass" wordfind, "It's Customary" puzzle, "Triskaidekaphobia" puzzle, "A Mixed Up Snow White" puzzle, Libri Optimi, "Meet the Press", "Ad Negotium Transigendum", reading comprehension questions from page one, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

100th issue! Pompeiiana XV.4, December 1988


Welcome to the 100th issue of Pompeiiana!

Content: "Grus Grata", "The Roman Saturnalia", "12th National Chariathon provides a Glorious End to a Grand Tradition", "Poets on Parade", "Musae Romanae" poem, "A Deponent Ditty", "What Do You Mean You Can't Spell?", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Soccer No New Game", "I Guess You Had to Be There", "Latin Lives On (ad infinitum), "Io! Saturnalia! No, Happy New Year! No, Merry Christmas!", "Myths in Art: The Rape of Europa", "Sing Along with Terpsichore", "He Wrote the Book on Saturnalia", "Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli", "On the High Seas with Julius Caesar", "Floral and Faunal Myths: The Partridge, The Dove, and the Narcissus", "Boadicea: An Ode", "Homer Lives and his name is Frank F. Fowle, III", "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", Comics page, "Shooting for the Gold", "Publishers Finally Reaching Out to Classicists", "Your Main Clue to Remembering a Word is its Root", "Claudia's Kitchen", Classified Ads, "Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum", "Labyrinth" puzzles, "Picturae Moventes" puzzle, "Soul Search" puzzle, Christmas tree crossword puzzle, Budding Genius quiz, reading comprension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Pompeiiana XIV.4, December 1987


Content: "Gemini Rapiunt Mundi Seriei Vexillum", "Hadrian's Wall", "'Twas the Night Before . . . Sort Of" in Latin, "What to See and Do in Rome this Month", "So, like, when is Christmas anyway?" story and comic, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Lucretius", "Esoteric Myths of Greece and Rome: Meleager", "Let's Put on a Play, Magistra", "President Speaks Out for Latin" (letter from President Reagan), "Claudia's Kitchen", Classified Ads, Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum, "Video Words" puzzle, "Sing Along with Phoebus", "Imperial Puzzler", "Words of Wisdom from the Works of Cicero" puzzle, "Iliad Double Trouble" puzzler, "Deistic Devilment" puzzle, Mythology mini-crossword puzzle, Budding Genius quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, Peacock mosaic craft, answer key for teachers.

Monday, May 11, 2009

Pompeiiana XI.4, December 1984


Content: "De Christi Nativitate", "Attempt to Overshadow Saturnalia Unveiled", "Oratorical Word Search and Matching", "Legal Latin in English", "Double Trouble Matching", "Olympia XXXIII Eventa Ludorum Aestatis", "Words of Advice Offered by Grateful College Student", "Clotho's Sewing Corner", Double Trouble Matching, "The Aeneid: Partes II & III", "Thanatopsis", Classified Ads, "Latin: More Fun than Ever Before", "Pompeiia . . . the Only Wife Caesar Ever Divorced", "Cooking with Claudia", "Jack (Jacobus) Makes the Latin Scene with the Help of Turpin High School 3rd Year Latin Students", "Budding Genius" quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, PLUS Auxilia Magistris answer key.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Pompeiiana III.3, December 1976



The cover of this issue features Santa (at the Glendale Shopping Center in Indianapolis, Indiana) wearing a Roman helmet while listening to a girl in a toga recite her Christmas wishes.

Contents: "Pompeianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", "Christmas: Our Heritage from the Past", "Sounds of Latin" poem, Photo of a booth at the Foreign Language Fair by Latin students of St. Andrew's Priori School in Honolulu, Hawaii (featuring Carolyn Chong and Dorry Wollstein), Photos of modern students wearing ancient clothing, "12 Days of Christmas" in Latin by Jeff Dohner, Jeff Calder, Steve Etter, and Debbie Privett, students of Nancy Mack of Wayne High School, "Second Annual Chariathon for Latin", "Notae Miscellaneae", "Santus Nikolas Vivit" (Yes, Virginia) from the New York Sun, September 21, 1897, "The Latin Langauge" by Fr. Tom O'Mahoney, Classic Ads.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Pompeiiana I.2, December 1974


Issue 2 of Pompeiiana features another celebrity appearance, this time in print via a letter to Ann Landers (and Ms. Landers' reply). Other content includes:

"Augmenting Reading Skills Through Language Learning Transfer", "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis!", "Nox Ante Christi Missam", "Sanctus Nikolas Vivit!" (Yes, Virginia...), "Comments on Some Current Vocabulary Research", "The Roman Times" (ancient newspaper collage), adverts from Pompeiiana, Inc., (including the 16mm color movie of Catapults in Action).