Showing posts with label catapult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catapult. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pompeiiana XXI.6, February 1995


Content: "In Via ad Infernum Multi ad Caelum Suspiciebant", "Pompeii: The Last Battle", "Hannibal" poem, "Teaching Mythology at Your Local Museum of Art", "The Mellow God", "How Are You Doing in Latin?", "The Fateful Day" poem, "Don't Catapult in the Dark! Pompeiiana Has the Blueprints!", "Self-Scourge for Valentine's Day" poem, "Gaius Julius Caesar" poem, "Trials and Triumphs" poem, Roga Me Aliquid, "Eucleidian Memoirs", "Student Receives Letter from Eros", "Pompeii" poem, "Computer Catches and Caveats for Latin Lovers", Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Legal Latin" puzzle, "Libri Discipulis ad Universitatem Proficiscentibus" puzzle, "Search for Roman Military" puzzle, "Weaving Your Way Through Cicero" puzzle, "Body Parts" puzzle, Picturae Moventes, "State Mottoes" puzzle, "Looking to the Sky" puzzle, "Res in Schola" puzzle, "Latin Boggle", Libri Optimi, "The Palatine Hill . . . From Rags to Riches to Ruins", Dextro Pede, "Catullus 101" poem, "The Legacy of Paris" poem, "Without Diana There Would be no Cereal", "Make Your Move to Mythical Meadows Now!", reading comprehension quesions from page one, Caveant Emptor Vendorque, comics page, answer key for teachers.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.2, October 1991

Content: "Yeltsinus: Estne Pater Patriae Suae?", "Pliny's Account of the Existence of Ghosts in Ancient Rome Challenged", "The Sword of Damocles", "Tantaene Animis Caelestibus Irae (Aeneid I, II)", "Legionnaire Scoreboard", "England Should Stick to its 'Space Circles' and Leave Catapulting to American Latin Students", "The Perfect Senior Portrait", "Iulia et Antonius" poem, "Aquae Sulis", "Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom of Night...", "Cena Spcials at the Hospitium Pompeianum Located Near the Thermae Stabianae", "Pyramus and Thisbe" poem, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Rursus, O Rursus!" poem, "Beam Us Up, Scotty", "Julius Caesar" poem, "Loyola Academy Recognized for its Outstanding Latin Program", "What the Heart of the Stoic Said to the Pianist", "Cloudy Myth" poem, "Est nullus locus domui similis!", "Because it was There!", "I Believe in Werewolves", "Rome's Wonder" poem, Comics page, Classified Ads, "Roman Writing Materials", "Precursor of Chicago's Sears Tower", "The Sphinx" poem, "Indiana Latin Teacher Honored", "De Equorum Lineis", Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Roman Gods and Goddesses" puzzle, "Res Mira Mathematica" puzzle, "Searching for Love" wordsearch, "Connect the Dot Mythology" puzzle, "Animal" crossword puzzle, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Pompeiiana XII.1, September 1985

Content: Marty! "Reditus ad Futurum", "9th National Chariathon", "1985: Year of the Mysterious Etruscans", "Disci Summi et Auctores Eorum", "Roman Finance", "Sing Along with Sempronia", "Cognoscisne Televisionis Spectacula Latine Scripta?", "Holy Catapults, Batman!", "Derivative Dilemma" by Bernice Fox, "Mini Latin Puzzlers" by Robert Kent and C.R.J. Scott, "Matching Words of Wisdom" by Waltham High School, "Ubi Sunt Vocabula?", "Efficiamus Aliquid Romanum: Calcei Romani", "My Dearest Hydra" by Monte Harper, "Nutrici Fabula", "Carmel High School Latin Students Waste Not Their Summer", Classified Ads, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Cooking with Claudia", "Bellum Troianum", "Why do our Clocks go 'Clockwise'?", Budding Genius Quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Pompeiiana X.9, May 1984


Content: On the cover, it's . . . Kevin Bacon in "America It Pede Laxo". Other articles include "Classic Spots in the U.S.A.: the Parthenon (Nashville)", "7 Kings of Rome" word search, "Michael Musculus", "Gulfstream Sees Market for Peregrines", "Scrambled Muses", Wordfind, "How's Your Legal-Ease?" puzzle, Emperor Jumble, "A Dead Language?", crossword puzzle, "New Catapult Record Set in Maine", "Indianapolis Area Latin Students Brave a Sudden Snow Storm to Banquet in Honor of Gaius Iulius Caesar", "Ermine Street Guard on the March in Britannia", "Castra Regina . . . Romans on the Danube", Classified Ads, "Roga Me Aliquid", "Cooking with Claudia", "Medieval Latin: Part II: Boethius A.D. 480-525", "Olympic Gossip", "Budding Genius" quiz, reading comprehension questions from page one.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Pompeiiana III.6, June 1977



Contents: "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis!", "Latin Exhibit" at Bethlehem Catholic High School (Pennsylvania), Sixth National Catapult Contest, "Ab Ovis" banquet at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha, Wisconsin, "Usque ad Mala", "Do Doctors Really Know Latin?" poem from Gertrude Johnson

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Pompeiiana II.5, April 1976


This issue's cover features Brownstown High School performing their original play, "Sermo Cotidianis: the Unheard Roman Speaks", at Latin Day at Butler University.

Contents: "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", "400 Students Attend Classics Day at Holyoke Community College", "Latin Day: Butler University", "Felices Dies" story and art, poem to Latin teach Joe Cook of Ben Davis High School by student Linda Butterworth, "Apollo - Spritus LXXVI or Roman Banquet - Elgin Style", invitation to the Pompeiiana annual meeting, "National Awards Banquet for the Fifth National Catapult Contest".

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Pompeiiana II.2, October 1975


This issue's cover features students from Mt. Vernon High School with chariot at their Homecoming Parade.

Contents: "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", a letter to Dr. Max Rafferty writing for the Los Angeles Times (and his response to the question of "why ancient history and mythology?", "Indelible Reminders of Our Roman Heritage", "Pepo Maxima" story and art, "Two Classicists Bicentennial Style" (Thomas Jefferson and Paul Revere), "Esto Paratus!" (Cub Scouts and catapults).

Monday, February 16, 2009

Pompeiiana I.5, June 1975


The cover feature for this issue features students from Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg, Indiana, prepping siege machinery.

Inside: Photo essay on "Happiness is . . .", "Festum Romanum" and Wayne High School, a script and cartoon for "Circumequitans--In Genere Graeco", "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", results of the 4th National Catapult Contest.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Pompeiiana I.4, April 1975



This issue's contents include: "Travel to Rome with Pompeiiana", "Fidem meam obligo vixillo Civitatium Americae Foederatarum . . .", "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", another "Uva Grubbea" comic and story, "CAMWS Welcomes Pompeiiana", student catapult photos, "Values Clarification in the Persepctive of a Classical Education".

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Pompeiiana I.3, February 1975



Issue 3 continues the theme of siege warfare with a cover photo incorporating a catapult and a Certamen banner. Message?

Content in this issue includes: "Pompeiianae Praefectus Salutem Dicit Litterarum Classicarum Studiosis", "In Memoriam: Emma T. Randall", "Ego Sum Uva Grubbea comic", "Uva Grubbea story", "Latin Day Features Catapult", "Students Catapulted in College", "Catapults in Action" rental notice, "Latin Gets You There" motto.