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Two upcoming Latin workshops at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania have been announced. Please remember the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen still serving far from home and family during your Thanksgiving this week. Shay does an incredible job of showing the parallels between the experiences of the Homeric warriors and those of contemporary American soldiers. To explore more about how the Ancient Greeks can help us understand the psychic wounds of war, also see the works of psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and its sequel Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. There you'll also find several accompanying videos from recent productions of Ajax and Philoctetes, performed for veterans at a recent Warrior Resilience Conference. Listen to In Ancient Dramas, Vital Words for Today's Warriors for a powerful story of the emotional toll of war, as well as hope and healing. On the Novemairing of National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Elizabeth Bair relates how the tragedies of the ancient Greek Sophocles resonate with audiences of contemporary veterans and their families. (See a recent public service announcement, Alone, from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Community of Veterans Project for a deeply moving depiction of this isolation, as well as links to support.) Soldiers, returning home from war, have always had to deal with the trauma of what they have seen and endured, often in isolation, because they cannot begin to describe the horrors of war to those who have not also experienced it. So, what does an afternoon soap opera have to do with the Classics? Like the ancient Greeks, Americans are trying to understand what it means to have served in combat and what that does to a soldier and his family. Recently the ABC soap opera All My Children cast JR Martinez, an actual Iraq vet (and a spokesperson for the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes) in a storyline about a returning soldier who has chosen to hide his identity from his wife (whose character is also a veteran, portrayed by career actress Beth Ehlers) due to the extent of his injuries. Ancient and modern authors have written about it and explored it in epic and tragedy. Over the centuries, this theme has become part of poetic and dramatic tradition. PTSD has been around for thousands of years.

Only the term 'post traumatic stress disorder' is new. This collection includes familiar songs of praise, including Veni, Veni Emmanuel ('O Come, O Come Emmanuel') and Adeste Fidelis ('O Come All Ye Faithful') as well as many others. Preces Latinae has a large selection of religious hymns in Latin for the entire liturgical year ( In Temporibus Anni), including Advent ( Tempus Adventus) and Christmas Time ( Tempus Nativitatis). Michael Myer has placed Cantica Adventus, a collection of religious and secular Latin lyrics on his school site. Laura Gibbs' Gaudium Mundo blog features an impressive selection of winter holiday songs - Christmas, Hanukkah and secular - in Latin.

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website to download some very creative materials, including Latin Christmas Carol song sheets, the Animals' Carol, recipes, and several skits and plays that your students might enjoy performing.

Kentucky Educational Television Latin Distance Learning has some great activities for winter holiday celebrations, including The Nativity Story in Latin and suggestions for a Saturnalia party.

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Traupman) they would have wished each other ' Io Saturnalia!' or ' Hilara Saturnalia!' (See Mary Beard's Five Things the Roman's Did At Christmas to find out more about Saturnalia.)Ĭheck out the Rosa Latina website for some holiday ideas! Latin teacher and author, Rose Williams, has an excellent selection of free teaching packets available there, including including Holidays for Latin Class.

They celebrated the ancient holiday Saturnalia, so according to The Bantam New College Latin & English Dictionary, Revised Edition (3rd edition, also written by Dr.

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Soon it will be December (tomorrow!) which means it is time to start planning for Christmas and Hanukkah!Īccording t o John Traupman's Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency (4th edition), this is how to wish someone a Merry Christmas in Latin: 'Faustem ac felicem Christi natalem (tibi exopto)!' Of course, the Romans didn't celebrate Christmas.