Showing posts with label conundrums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conundrums. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Pompeiiana XI.9, May 1985


Content: "Sumus Mundus" ("We Are the World!") Latin lyrics, "Lingua Latina Vivt!", "Creative Writing Using Latin Derivatives", "Romanitas" word search, "Tres Mures Caeci", "Ad nauseam" game, Conundrum Latinum, Search and Circle, "X Disci Summi et Auctores Eorum", "The Aeneid:pars VIII", Classified Ads, Budding Genius quiz, Cooking with Caludia, "Re-enacting a Roman Wedding" by Betty Johnson, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Pompeiiana IX.8, April 1983


Content: "The real 'Raiders'", "Medusa" poem by Dorothy Green, "Latin Weekender Conference", "The Forgotten Shrine" by Ed Steele, "Rome Lives" poem by Aric Jordan, "No, They Didn't All Die of Lead Poisoning", "Io Triumphe!", "Latin Lovers", Classified Ads, Arizona JCL, "In Memoriam" poem by Mark Finney, "Slave Market" comic by Eileen Boyd Hutchinson, "Budding Genius" quiz, Conundrums by Mansfield Middle School, reading comprehension questions from page 1, "Provinviae Romanae" wordfind by Peleus Brontes.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Pompeiiana IX.2, October 1982


Content: Continuing in the tabloid style, Pompeiiana features a lead article in Latin on the films of Kenny Rogers. Other pieces include the National Latin Exam, "Eric Zorn of Chicago Tribune Explores Latin", "For Budding Geniuses", street directions to T. Sauvius Agricola's apartment in Rome, "Certemus or Leaping Legions!" list of games, Conundrums, Pliny the Elder on wine, Classifieds, "How well did you read?" reading comprehension questions from this issue, "Pegasus: A Modern Myth" by Robin Walden of Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, image of an Italian postage stamp featuring Horace.

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".