Monday, September 14, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.8, April 1992

Content: "Bonata Blairensis: Atalanta in Calceis Ferratis" (Bonnie Blair), "Acti Pilati", "The Struggle for Power", "Legionnaire Score Board", "Quotable Latin", "The Quest of the Golden Fleece Continues" poem, "Cena Specials", "XXIV orae in Vita Gladiatoris Romani", "Diana" poem, "The War of the Gods", "Ode to a Toothache", "Marcus Porcius Cato . . . Thunder on the Right", "Poor Julius" poem, "Caesar's Haircut" poem, "Invida", "It Must Be Spring, I Saw a Fight!", "Top Secret Documents", "Incarnation of Pollution", "Money Says it All", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Laying out the Romans", "Take That!", "Aeneas and Dido" poem, Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Now It's Your Turn" puzzle, "Greek and Roman Gods" crossword puzzle, "Garbled Gods" puzzle, "Tempus Fugit" puzzle, "Proelia Romae" puzzle, "Brain-Teaser", "Spring-time Lovers" wordsearch, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.7, March 1992


Content: "Desmond Heismanium Tropaeum Obtinet!" (Desmond Howard wins the Heisman Trophy), "Mythology Mania" poem, "Why Every School Needs a Latin Teacher", "92-93 Pompeiiana Newsletter Contract Cartoonists Sought", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Getting a Handle on the Nymphs", "Circus Maximus", "Artemeeze", "A Day in the Life of Publius Sempronius Benignus, Merchant of Rome", "The Trophy Case of Rome: Triumphal Arches", "To Catullus, From Your Loving Brother" poem, "Neptune's Magical Creation From Under the Sea", "Keeping Latin Contemporary", "Pluto's Namesake", "Pax" poem, "Legionnaire Score Board", "Cena Specials", "Parthenon Back Together Again", "Dido's Farewell" poem, Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "A 'Brief' Puzzle", "An A-Muse-ing Puzzle" crossword, "Zodiacal Zaniness" puzzle, "Friend or Foe?" puzzle, "Descriptive Dilemma" puzzle, 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.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.5, January 1992

Content: "Gerardus Seinfeldus: Comoedus Mirus" (Jerry Seinfeld), "New Latin Dictionary Will Bridge Cultural Gap", "Phaethon's Fall" poem, "The Continuing Presence of 'The Last of the Romans'", "The Jewish Quarter of Old Rome", "A Duet of Instruments", "Huntress in the Sky" poem, "Who's Laughing Now?", "Roga Me Aliquid", "The Hair-raising Murder", "The Death of Pan" poem, "Cena Specials", "Hercules Sighted in New York", "Patria Potestas" poem, "The Life and Times of Nero", "Legionaire Score Board", "Athleticus", "Major Latin Gods", "Shooting Hoops, Roman Style", "Nothing But Ancient History", Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "Trojan War" crossword puzzle, "Searching for the Gods" puzzle, "Quis sum?" puzzle, "You are a ____" puzzle, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.4, December 1991

Content: "Maria Curiosa" (Mariah Carey), "It's Party Time!", "What Evergreen Needles Never Fall", "Interlude in Fiesole", "The Wisest of All Creatures", "Sapientia and Fatuus", "You Can Pin a Lot on Bad Ol' Nero, But He Didn't Fiddle, and He Probably Didn't Burn Rome", "Legionnaire Score Board", "A Letter from Ammanius", "Spirit of Ulysses" poem, "The Mythology of Dreams", "Word Wise", "Reflections on Love, the Gods, and Metamorphoses", "Jim Morrison -- Dionysus?", "Roga Me Aliquid", "Monthly Madness" poem, "Ulysses" poem, "Let Your Creative Juices Flow!", "Love Letters in the Sand", "Cena Specials", "The Barbs of Martial Modernized", Classified Ads, Comics page, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, "What Destroyed Pompeii?" puzzle, "Words and War" crossword puzzle, "Intellegisne haec verba?" puzzle, "Searching for Saturnalia" wordsearch, "'Write' on the Tip of your Tongue", "Participially Puzzling" puzzle, reading comprehension questions from page one, answer key for teachers.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Pompeiiana XVIII.3, November 1991

Content: "Erneus Non Mortuus Est! Ne Aeger Quidem Est!" (Ernie from Sesame Street), "Scandals", "Greek Miracle or Plagiarism from Egypt", "Cena Specials", "Venus and Lepidora", "Sam I Am" poem, "Arias at the Baths", "An Interview with Theodora, Wife of the Emperor Justinian", "It's More than a Book" poem, "The Sirens" poem, "Roga Me Aliquid", "The Legend of a Champion" poem, "Your Saturnalia Gift Giving Worries are Over!", "The First Man in Rome", "Roman Dining Do's and Don'ts", "The Olympians" poem, "A Contest Between the Gods", "Sr. Michael Louise Meyer", "The Life of Julius Caesar" poem, "The Joys of Teaching Latin", "River God Alive and Well in Minneapolis", "Legionnaire Score Board", Classified Ads, Comics page, "Dux Femina Facti" crossword puzzle, "Clues Fit for a King" puzzle, "Match the Lovers" puzzle, "Hilly Hurdle" puzzle, "Mixed-up Emperors" puzzle, "All god's children" puzzle, Carmina Optima et Eorum Auctores, reading comprehension questions from page one, 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.