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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Pompeiiana XXVII.7, March 2001


Content: "Davidis Matthei: Caterva Musica", "The Princes of Rome", "Journal of Death", "A God of War -- and Much More!", assorted poems, horoscope, "A Latin Teacher's Moment of Truth", "The Shortest Distance Between Two Points", "The Death of Tiberius", "Landslide" lyrics in Latin by Fleetwood Mac, "Why 'The Ides'?", "Economic Revival Inspired by Caesar", "I Hate Grammar", Roga Me Aliquid, Ancient Greek and Roman Recipes: Convivamus!, "Live Gladiatorial Fights (featured by Museum of London)", "Class on the Grass", "The Looting Continues!", Ludi Apto ad Discendum et se Oblectnadum, reading comprehension questions from page one, "Stolen Artifacts Recovered in Rome", "Proscriptiones Nundinariae", comics page, answer key for teachers.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Pompeiiana XIX.7, March 1993


Content: "Lucas Perri" (Luke Perry), "Pennsylvania Politicians Threaten to Strap Latin and Greek Studies to the Procrustean Bed of Oral Proficiency", "Latin Grammar Scools Spreading Across USA", "Cave Idus Martias", "Roga Me Aliquid", "The Day the Statue Smiled", "Slaves or Machines?", "The Plague of the Roman Women", "Latin Students Model Roman Architecture", "Via Appia: The Pathway to Serenity", "The Danaid Daughter..." poem, "Greek and Roman Sports: Were They Our Kind of Games? poem, "Acronymics", "Unforgettable Breeze", "Potesne Conicere Quis Hic Fuerit?", "Latin's Not Dead" poem, "The Walters-Hercules Interview", "In Memoriam: Egyptian Style", Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Searching for Legalities" puzzle, "Marcus Aurelius" puzzle, "Getting Your Grammar Together", "English Derivatives of Publicus, -a, -um" crossword, "Jason and the Argonauts" poem, "Libri Optima", "Divine" word search, "Restaurant Paraphernalia" puzzle, "Tituli Negotiales" puzzle, "Mystery Message" puzzle, "TV Shows" puzzle, "Scrambled Feminine Colors" puzzle, "Moving Rome to the Next Saeculum", "Aeneas and Dido for Life", "First Battle", "New Mill Revolutionizes Grain Market", "Child of Egypt" poem, "Cookin' Roman", "Recently Discovered Interviews with Gius Juilius Caesar", "Osiris" poem, "You Are So Greedy" poem, "Spring Song", "Caveant Emptor Vendorque", reading comprehension questions from page one, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.9, May 1992

Content: "Pulchritudo Bestiaque" (Beauty and the Beast), "Zero Hour: Exams Bring Visions" poem, "Pompeiiana Annual Meeting Scheduled", "Renewal Card Guarantees Timely September Delivery", "A Day in the Life of Antonius, Cattle Breeder", "Cena Specials", "Dis Manibus", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Constantine Not at Battles of Mursa and Mount Seleucus", "Funereal Foot Race", "The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules", "Juilius Caesar" poems, "The Esquiline . . . A Study in Contrast", "Festina Lente!" poem, "Battle Fields of Troy" poem, "Humanitas Classica", "Students Get Into the Spirit of Martial", "A Day in the Life of Scylax", "Abbott and Costello Go Latin", "Legionnaire Score Board", Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Vita Thesei" crossword puzzle, "The Best Possible Throw of Dice" puzzle, "Gallic War" Word Search, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.6, February 1992


Content: "UNCUS: Dolor Durat Per CXXXV Momenta Temporis", "Latin 101" poem, "An Ideal Latin Classroom: Then & Now", "Ostia . . . Where the Mute Stones Speak", "Koryphaios Kai Kinesies" poem, "Window of Experience" poem, "Miriam's Account of Her Last Dat on Masada", "My Longest Journey" poem, "Welcome to Derivative Heaven", "Cupid, Cupid" poem, "The Goddess of Pain", "Equus" pictogram, "Legionnaire Score Board", "An Open Letter", "Jason's Bogus Adventure", "The Swells of Neptune", "Martis Dies - Dies Mortis", "Cena Specials", "Androcles" poem, "Those Seven Wonders", "The Brother's Tomb", "Mater" poem, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Lover's Lament" poem, "You Can't Make a Sow's Ear into a Silk Purse, But Your Mouth Will Do Just Fine", "Caesar" poem, Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Ahoy Mates!" puzzle, "Caesar" crossword puzzle, "A Message to All Latin Students" puzzle, "Res Latinae" crossword puzzle, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Pompeiiana XV.7, March 1989


Pompeiiana Newsletter is now back from haiatus and resumes its schedule of five issues/week!

Content: "Elisabetha Mediatrix" (Bette Middler), "If You Think Julius Caesar Doesn't Matter to Us, Try Living with the Old Lunar Calendar!", "The Twenty-First Century: Let's Get It Right From the Start!", "In Memoriam: Frank Fowle II", "Latin May be Precise, but Try Getting Two Latin Teachers to Agree Precisely", "Hey, Caesar, Don't You Know Which Way North Is?", "Verus Amor", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Fun with Words", "Musae Romanae: The Tears of the Muses", "Update on Romulus' Walls", "Authentic Roman Coins Still on the Market", "Little Tullia", "Caesar Not Delivered by Caesarean Section", "Myths in Art: Nemesis", "Sing Along with Terpsichore", "Contract Cartoonists Sought for '89-'90", "Delphi", "Eau de Caesar", "Floral and Faunal Myths: The Heron, The Screech Owl, The Oak and The Linden", "Latine Loqui Libet", "A Vergilio Excitata", "The Roman News", "The Aeneid, Bk. I", "Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York", Comics page, "The Ides of March: Time for Roman Around", "Claudia's Kitchen", "Latin Class Euphoria", "Derivative Temple Drawing", "The Only English Film Ever Made in Latin", "Poemata Brevia", Classified Ads, Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum, Budding Genius quiz, "Vocational Placements" puzzle, "Children's Books" puzzle, "Televisionis Spectacula" puzzle, "Labyrinth" puzzle, "A Slave's Quest" puzzle, "Deponent Verbs" puzzle, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Pompeiiana XIV.7, March 1988


Content: "Opra Winfrea" (aka Oprah Winfrey), "An Interview with Caesar", "Chester", "Roman Poets of the Golden Age: Horace", "What to See and Do in Rome This Month", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Esoteric Myths of Greece and Rome: Ceyx and Halcyone", "Rappin' on Minos", "Claudia's Kitchen", "Let's Play a Game, Magister", "The Gods Grant Mercy", "Latin called invaluable", Classified Ads, "Carmina Optima et Auctores Eorum", "Puzzling Through the History of Rome", "Sing Along with Phoebus", "The Ballad of Latin I", "Cryptic Communique" puzzle, "Mythology Matching" puzzle, Budding Genius quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Pompeiiana XII.8, April 1986


Content: The cover story features the one-hit wonder, Klimax, in the story, "Klimax (lingua Graeca), Klymaxx (lingua Saxea)". Other content includes "The Gauls Caesar Met and Their Priests, the Druids", "Disci Summi et Auctores Eorum", "Mythological Match", "Great Men of Science" quiz, "Sing Along with Sempronia", "Entries from the Diary of Aeneas: A Startling New Discovery", "Crosswords by Claudius", "Which Labor of Hercules is It?", "Verb Search", "Partes Casae Romanae" wordsearch, ancient ballots comic, "A Pillar of Iron: Pars V", "Poemata Latina a Studentibus Latinis", "President of Diamond-Bathurst Company Speaks Out for Latin", schematic for building a Roman banquet table, Classified Ads, "Roga me Aliquid", "Cooking with Claudia", "Students Paint Mural", Budding Genius Quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Pompeiiana XII.5, January 1986


Content: "Sylvester Stallonus: Dulce et decorum est pro patria pugnare", "A Novel Look at Hadrian's Wall", "Sing Along with Sempronia", "Disci Summi et Auctores Eorum", "Aliquid tibi Liberum!", "The Name Game", "Ubi Sunt Genitivi Horum Verborum?", "Another Latin Crossword Puzzle", "Hannibal" wordfind, "A Latin Crossword Puzzle", "Efficiamus Aliquid Romanum: Pecten Romanus", "A Pillar of Iron: Pars II", "Linguistic Pipedream for January", "Andrew Hecker, NJCL Vice President Honored for Outstanding Writing Ability by National Council of Teachers of English", "Swiss Canton Still Speaks Latin?", Classified Ads, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Cooking with Claudia", "Nomen Mihi Est Marcus Tullius Cicero", "11th Century Latin Text & Translation Now Available", "Tongue-in-Cheek Caesar Text Revealed to Students", "Agnomina Quae Nunc Vivunt in Mundo Nostro", Budding Genius quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Pompeiiana VIII.4, March 1982


Content: The cover features Bill Gilmartin dressed as Caligula. Articles include "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis!", "A 'Dead Language' is given a Lively Defense" by Edward B. Fiske special to the New York Times, "A Nominal Proposal" by Donna Sandage, "Feminae Bellicosae" Latin play by Kenneth Wright of Borger High School, "Try Latin" by Jon A. Lokensgard, "Conundrums", "Magister Optimus!", "Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars".