I remember well both as a teacher and as an administrator this time of year. It feels like winter will never end, you need a break as much as do the students, the remaining lines for the AP Latin exam loom all too large, and students are registering for next year’s classes. May your spring break bring you much needed rest. If yours is past, may it keep you going until the next long weekend! You’ll make it through those remaining lines, you always do. Let us hope that registration yields good numbers for you and your colleagues.

It's March! Time to vote in B-C’s much-beloved Martia Dementia. Encourage your students to vote for their favorites in this year’s contest starting March 21.

 

As you’re checking your calendar, make sure you’ve signed up for our last complimentary webinar of the year. Steve Tucker, professor at Miami University of Ohio and much celebrated Vergilian Society tour leader, delivers a terrific webinar demonstrating the nexus of literature and the visual arts. Join us on April 9, 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. Central Time, for “Vergil at Sperlonga: Roman Epic and Decorating the Emperor’s Dining Room.” As a student at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, my first encounter with the monumental sculptures at Sperlonga left a lasting impression. The sculptures and the grotto where Tiberius dined have been regular stops on my student and my adult tours of Italy. I must report, however, that on one of my visits, I was a bit perturbed that my boys were more interested in the topless sunbathers they noticed as we walked down to the grotto.

 

May I call your attention to three of the links in this month’s Teaching Tips & Resources. Just under the Res Post-Antiquae, you’ll find two bullets about an astrolabe that demonstrates the intellectual exchange among the followers of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. More emphasis on such examples is sorely needed.

Don

 

This is the fourth in a series of five stories to accompany the five review units of Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2. While complementary to LNM, the stories can serve all second-year Latin students.

 

The story of Baucis and Philemon, told most vividly in Ovid’s Metamorphoses provides an important lesson about the Roman concept of “hospitium.” Also known as the Greek concept of “xenia” or “guest-friendship,” it was the expression of hospitality toward all strangers, since it could never be clear when a guest could be a god in disguise. Baucis and Philemon, despite being older and poor, encounter Jupiter and Mercury, disguised as humans, and offer a moving example of not only “hospitium” but also of loving devotion to one another. 

 

 

 

Vocabula Nova
ānser, ānseris, m. – goose
ānus, ānūs, f. – old woman
attonitus, -a, -um – shocked, stunned
Baucis, Baucidis, f. – Baucis
benignus, -a, -um – kind
demonstrō (1) – to show, demonstrate
fōrmam deōrum – read/translate this genitive as “of” as you are accustomed. It is an example of a genitive of description.
hospes, hospitis, m. – guest, visitor; stranger
humiliter (adv.) – humbly
Jovī – dative of Juppiter, an irregular noun
nuntius, -ī, m. – messenger
Philēmōn, Philēmonis, m. – Philemon
poculum, -ī, n. – cup
recōgnōscō, recōgnōscere, recōgnōvī, recōgnitus – to recognize
utrum – whether

 

Editor’s Note: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to provide this Latin story for Latin teacher subscribers to use with their own classes only. The PDF version includes a full-color illustration and caption.

About the Author
Emma Vanderpool has taught Latin at the university, middle school, and high school levels—currently at Goffstown High School in New Hampshire. Vanderpool earned her Bachelor of Arts in Latin, Classics, and History from Monmouth College in Illinois and her Master of Arts in Teaching Classical Humanities from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She serves as a state rep for CANE, as an executive board member of Ascanius, and as an organizer for Our Voices and Lupercal. Vanderpool is the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from UMASS Amherst and was honored as the Lincoln Laureate for Monmouth College. She has self-published ten novellae. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is pleased to have had Vanderpool launch our novella series with Explore Latin: Aves and the first three titles for the Encounter Latin series—Augury is for the Birds: Marcus de Avibus Discit, Under His Father's Wing: Marcus de Auguribus Discit, and Princess, Priestess, Mother, Wolf: Fabula de Romulo et Remo (forthcoming).

 

 

Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers is thrilled with the very positive response from students and instructors alike about this Lumina content: online exercises to accompany the Caesar and Vergil selections on the AP Latin syllabus! With its comprehensive, completely original content, Lumina: Caesar and Vergil Selections is a perfect complement to Bolchazy-Carducci's print and eBook resources for AP Latin. Better yet, Lumina: Caesar and Vergil Selections works on any internet-enabled device!

Features

• Hundreds of automatically-graded multiple choice questions promote close reading of all syllabus selections and provide students with immediate feedback

• Veteran AP Latin teacher Patrick Yaggy has carefully constructed Lumina to model the formatting, terminology, and question-type frequency of the AP Latin exam.

• Multiple choice questions cover every single line of Caesar and Vergil in the AP Latin syllabus.

• Copious AP-style free response questions ensure that students develop the necessary skills to thoroughly analyze and respond to all passages on the syllabus

• Thorough practice exams prepare students for the format of the AP Latin exam

• Vocabulary and figures of speech flashcards allow for additional review.

The current version reflects additions and revisions, as well as some corrections, made in response to student and teacher feedback.

An ideal learning tool, for online or in person classes, that provides exceptional AP Exam prep!

To learn more, visit the Lumina: Caesar and Vergil Selections product page and watch the overview video.

 

 

For full descriptions of the bracket contests, check out the B-C Blog.

 

 

Friday, March 22, 2024
Session Two, 10:15–11:30 am
“Legant Omnes: Ways to Teach Reading Skills”
Jacqui Carlon, author, forthcoming Pliny text for AP Latin

 

Saturday, March 23, 2024
Session Five, 9:00–10:15 am
“The Greek Myth Lab: MANTO and Scholia”
R. Scott Smith, coauthor, The Unknown Socrates: Translations, with Introductions and Notes, of Four Important Documents in the Late Antique Reception of Socrates the Athenian

 

“Everything but the Kitchen Sink: Streamlining CI Activities”
Emma Vanderpool, Augury is for the Birds: Marcus de Avibus Discit, Under His Father's Wing: Marcus de Auguribus Discit, and Princess, Priestess, Mother, Wolf: Fabula de Romulo et Remo (forthcoming).

 

Session Seven, 1:15–2:30 pm
“Capite Censi: the CANE Census of Classics in New England”
Gregory Stringer, author, forthcoming A Pliny Workbook

“Scaffolding Authentic Latin for all Students”
David Pellegrino, coauthor, Caesar & Vergil AP* Vocabulary Cards; author Catullus Vocabulary Cards for AP* Selections and Cicero and Horace Vocabulary Frequency Lists for AP * Selections

 

Thursday, April 4, 2024
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Second Paper Session
“Pomponius Mela’s Ethical Landscape”
Georgia Irby, author, “Connecting with the Post-Ancient World: The Scientific Revolution, Latin for the New Millennium, Level 2

 

Friday, April 5, 2024
1:30–3:30 p.m. Seventh Paper Session
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis Campus)
“Hypsipyle in the Middle Ages: the Fragmentary Heroine”
Carole Newlands, author, An Ovid Reader : Selections from Seven Works

 

“CAMWS’s Tenth Decade”
Gregory Daugherty, coauthor, To Be A Roman: Topics in Roman Culture

“CAMWS’s Eleventh Decade”
Anne Groton, coauthor, Thirty-eight Latin Stories: 5th edition Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin (7th Edition)

“CAMWS’s Twelfth Decade”
Thomas J. Sienkewicz, coauthor, Vergil: A LEGAMUS Transitional Reader; Series editor, LEGAMUS Transitional Readers

 

“The CAMWS of the Future: Building a Supportive Space for Classics and Classicists to Thrive”
T. Davina McClain, author, Graphic Greek Grammar Cards

 

1:00–3:00 p.m. Ninth Paper Session
“Augustus in Tacitus, Annals 12.60”
Victoria E. Pagan, author, A Sallust Reader: Selections from Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, and Historiae

3:15–5:00 p.m. Tenth Paper Session
“The Invention of Fiction in Juvenal Satire 15”
Cathy Keane, author, A Roman Verse Satire Reader: Selections from Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal

 

Booths 69/70
Bolchazy-Carducci Representative: Donald Sprague

 

 

 

By authors: James W. Chochola, Donald E. Sprague
Illustrated by: Lydia Koller