Roman Culture architecture

Roman culture has influenced a lot of things today like the colosseum and the sports arenas. The colosseum was huge arena that hosted events like gladiator fights and sports arena do the same things with sports. They are both very large in size and have many seats.

-sydney

Latin in TV Shows

Latin in TV Show: Good Doctor

           When I was watching the show, good doctor, the phrase aut libertatem aut mortem mihi da came up on the subtitles. I looked it up after the episode, and the meaning is- give me liberty or give me death. The episode was about a guy with a brain tumor who decided to go ahead with a surgery that could leave him completely paralyzed on one side. The doctor said the phrase during the surgery. I think it was relevant because this guy was in a life or death situation, and he chose life, by going through with the surgery. The patient's profession needed the use of both his arms, but he stayed positive saying that he would work hard to get motion back, and the surgery went better than expected, and he was able to start moving a little. It was interesting to see the use of a whole Latin phrase in one of my favorite shows. 

-Maddy Collins-

Latin in Batman

While watching a retro "Batman" show a couple of years ago, something Latin caught my eye. I saw the Latin word for "cat" (gattus) on a sign above a warehouse that Batman and Robin were trying to enter.  "Gattus" was one of three words that meant "cat" written on the sign. The placement of this word on the sign was very fitting because it was above the entrance to Catwoman's lair. Even with me, at the time, having a beginner's knowledge of Latin, I found it fascinating that Latin showed up on a show that I enjoyed to watch.

-Will Schnepf

My Recent Example of Roman Culture

Recently, a game called Wargroove came out, and it is supposed to be a spiritual successor of two games called Advance Wars and Age of Empires respectively. My dad helped work on the latter, so we have a ton of photos in our house of the game. One of the photos shows the mythology expansion for the game, with Zeus in the front flanked by Roman soldiers. I haven't played the game, so I don't know his role in it, but he is in the front because he is the leader of the gods and the head chair of Olympus. He is the most recognizable, and many people point out Zeus before they point out the game when they see the poster.

- Cole Hudson

The US Coast Guards Song has the phrase Semper Paratus it is also the motto meaning "always ready" This shows how Latin is still prevalent after so long of a time and that Latin has spread through American Culture.

Finn Collins

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Jackson Harris


Throughout Dallas, you can see the ways that Roman Culture has had an impact on the architecture in this city. While driving home from school after practice yesterday I had to take a weird route home because of all the traffic on both 635 and the Toll Way. I decided to drive down Inwood. During this drive, you go past lots of big houses with interesting styles. One of the houses caught my eye while I was cruising down the wet and crowded road.  It was a house with Roman columns in the front. I forgot about it but then the traffic ground to a halt and the house was still in my view.  I studied it intently and remembered the presentation one of my classmates did during class a while ago. This column was clearly an Ionic column. The spirals at the top had an interesting flair they were also about 15 feet high. These columns were a big part of the Roman culture and are one of the pieces of architecture that have stood the test of time. You can see these columns in pictures of the Colosseum, where carving and statues once stood proudly and looked over the city of Rome. 

Latin in Jeopardy

         This past week I was catching up on my Jeopardy!, and one of the categories happened to be Latin body parts. The questions were all body parts in Latin, and the contestants had to guess the English. Most of them were derivatives, so it was rather easy for the contestants to guess. One of the questions was "pes" and the answer was "foot".
          When the Romans expanded to different places in Europe, they took their language with them. The languages that the people already had combines with Latin and created the Romance Languages. English, however, comes from German. When the Normans came to France and England, the French language was already established. French was considered the upper class language, which is why there are latin words in English. This explains how the contestants were able to know the answers (unless they took Latin).

Sophie Pong
http://udel.edu/~dlarsen/ling203/Slides/History%20of%20Romance%20Languages.pdf

Roman Influence in Literature

I have recently been reading a fictional book by the author Pierce Brown named Red Rising. The world of the book is a future civilization that takes heavy influence from Roman culture. They take architecture, government systems, philosophies, and military ranking from the Romans. The military aspect was most interesting to me, with men and women named imperators at the top of the system. These imperators were the commanders of the army, and held high respect among the people. It was helpful having background knowledge on the subject going in because I now have a much better understanding of the book.

- Andrew Tanner

Austin Latin And Jeep

While In class We were talking about Ceaser and how he crossed the Rubicon river was mentioned. Ceaser crossed the Rubicon to take Rome. This would lead to the end of the republic and the start of the empire. So how does jeep fit into this, well jeep has there top of the line wrangler model the Rubicon. This is in reference to the original jeep in WW2 being able to cross anything like the Rubicon after the Allies pushed into Italy and how the jeep could conquer all opticals like Ceaser. I thought it was interesting how a jeep has a refernce to Ceaser. P.S. the jeep renegade is basically a rebadged Fiat and Fiat is also Italian

Every Day Latin

I was searching for a saying or a location I had once been to and see if i remember if they had any motto in Latin. That's when I realized that my mother took us to her college in Florida. They had this saying, "Civium in moribu rei publiae salus", and this translates to "In the character of its citizens lies the welfare of the state” meaning that the students show what their school represents to the world.
Kevin Murphy

Junior Ring Ceremony

Last week the Juniors had the Junior Ring Ceremony. It is a ceremony that represents growing up and moving into the last stage of our high school lives. As I was thinking about what I was going to do for Blog Post I realized that there is something very similar to this ceremony in Roman Culture. The Coming of Age Ceremony reminded me a lot of our Junior Ring Ceremony. Coming of age meant becoming a adult in roman society. The children came of age at 15 and at the ceremony received a toga to represent that they are an adult. I found these ceremonies to be very similar because at each a are given a object that represents moving on, and both ceremonies are a celebration of becoming adults, in our case becoming seniors.'
 Maggie Bienko

Carpe DM

While looking through my closet, I found an older shirt that I got for Christmas about a year or two ago. This shirt has lots of many-sided dice on it with the words CARPE DM written on it in bold. This is a joke off of a Latin saying Carpe Diem meaning seize the day. This means to make all you can out of the time you have. The joke with this shirt is that it replaced diem, the Latin word for the day, with DM. DM is a term used for the Dungeon Master in the dice tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons. Because this shirt combined Latin and dice games, I think it is really cool.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiV2dLT5M3gAhUREawKHWUKBvIQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FYouth-Carpe-parody-dungeon-master%2Fdp%2FB01LBCTII0&psig=AOvVaw1KgwrViDdRBT-vIV9MvA8L&ust=1550871445193781

amazon link if you want one
image from amazon(could not take picture since im at school)

Latin at Disneyland

This past weekend, my family and I went to Disneyland. I've been there a lot but this is the first time I recognized this sign. This sign was in front of the bus stop that'll take you down Main Street. Omni means "all" and it has a dative and ablative ending, "ibus." This probably makes more sense to me than a lot of other people that walk past that sign every day. It means all can get on the passenger-carrying vehicle. This not only shows that Latin is good in Rome, but it also means it's relevant in American theme parks like Disney!

Latin in Everyday life

Tis the season of college emails and college letter. I got an email from Villanova in Pennsylvania. When I got the email it made me wonder what it really meant, since a lot of colleges in the northeast either have a moto that is latin or the name itself is Latin. I then looked it up and found out that the meaning of Villanova is "new town" or "new settlement." As I continue to get these college emails, I will be on the lookout for Latin names and motos.

Roman History

During my studies on a specific type of Roman building in the Pompeian forum, I came across a similarity between Roman and modern culture. The building I was researching was known as the "Capitolium" and was a multi-purpose building that served as a temple for their gods. Each city would have had one in their forum and it was named and modeled after the original Capitolium which was built in the forum of Rome on the Capitoline hill. I compared the Capitolium to Saint Peters Basilica because many churches are modeled after it in the same way as the Romans and their Capitolias. However, I don't think that this is a tradition carried on from the Roman empire to modern times, but rather an example of how history repeats itself. In the same way that the Roman's recognized the Capitolium's significance, the Christians in Rome recognized the significance of Saint Peters Basilica and copied it. Rather than a continuation of tradition, it was a mutual acknowledgment of importance. I think this similarity serves as an example of that despite the culture and technology of a civilization changes, the people and their minds do not.

Flaccus out,

Roman influence on the U.S. Government

Sophie Kate Guillory

When examining the United States government there are very similar parallels to the Roman government system. For example, you see in the U.S. the government is ruled by the rich and wealthy, even though we call ourselves a democracy; similarly, the Roman government was ruled by the aristocrats, the wealthier part of Roman society. Also, the U.S. government is a Democratic Republic which was influenced by the Roman Republic. Lastly, I found information on something called the Twelve Tables that existed in the Roman government, which when I further looked at what the Twelve Tables was realized it is the same thing as the U.S. Constitution. It is very evident that the U.S. gained a lot of influence from the Roman Republic, and what I mentioned was hardly scraping the surface of the similarities between the two. 

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

Recently I've been on the lookout for birthday presents for my mom. She's turning 50 this March and I wanted to get her something with meaning, thoughtfulness, and good luck. So when looking around and pondering different things, I found this site that you could plug in coordinates and a date, and it would give you the constellations and placement of the stars that exact date and place. I thought this was the best thing ever and decided to get this for my mom, but my issue was that I couldn't find a good enough quote to place at the bottom (it was offered when you plug in the date). This is when I journeyed through Pinterest for hours, but I still couldn't find anything I liked. Although before long, I figured I would use my Latin education on mottos and find a meaning one for my quote instead. Obviously, it had to be about stars and meaningful, so my choices were pretty limited, but this didn't stop me. After more hours of constant searching, I finally agreed to use "Ad Astra Per Aspera". This means "to the stars through difficulties". Now I've ordered my print and I'm awaiting its arrival in the mail; I'm so excited.

Cat Grayson
2/12/19   

Constructions in Geometry

In Geometry, we are required to complete activities called "constructions." It is basically copying segments, angles, and shapes with only using a compass and straightedge, like how the Greeks did it. The Greeks did constructions all the time. The mathematician, Euclid, who lived around 330 B.C. - 260 B.C, published a book called "Elements" which contains the constructions my peers and I use in math class today. He is called the father of Geometry. One reason the Greeks had constructions is that they only had whole numbers and no decimals. If they needed to find a midpoint, they could not measure it, so they would have to construct it. Thanks to the Greeks, we get to do fun activities in math class.

This a picture of my construction of two similar triangles


Charlotte Eades

https://www.mathopenref.com/constructions.html
https://www.mathopenref.com/euclid.html

Latin in Money

Lucy Robinson

Yesterday I was at Starbucks with my stepdad and I had to pay the cashier in cash. She gave me back a dollar and while we were waiting in line my stepdad told me that money relates to Latin. On the back of the one dollar bill, there is a Latin phrase around the pyramid. On top of the pyramid says Annuit Cœptis means favor our undertakings. The bottom says Novus Ordo Seclorum meaning a new order of the ages. I thought it was really cool that they used latin on our dollar bill.

How Latin has helped me in English

Latin has helped me in English during our reading of the Odyssey. During the book, many of the characters would act in a way that might not be normal to modern culture. But because we have learned about Roman culture in Latin class and Ecce Romani, I realized that inviting somebody to stay in your house might not be something so strange in the roman world. Latin has also helped my in English because we discussed some of the key themes in Odysseus's journey.

Latin has helped me understand Geometry

In geometry one day near the end of the pilot schedule this year we were learning about parallelograms quadrilaterals, and other shapes commonly used in geometry. Mr. Ahearn was asking the class why a triangle was called a triangle and why a square was called a square, he said the Latin students would know. I quickly raised my hand and said tri is three in Latin, and quad is four. This was the first instance that I could connect Latin to geometry and I have seen plenty of more examples such as concave, meaning with the angle, subdivision meaning lower or smaller shapes inside one shape, polygon poly meaning many, and lots of other instances. All it takes for me to connect something back to latin is usually just the word itself and then I can usually spot a derivative that I have learned over the years. Making these connections brings a small sense of excitement to whatever I am doing, it makes reading books and listening to geometry lectures a little more fun.

-Alec

Chemistry Latin

We were doing an activity with identifying elements and we came across a question with identifying potassium. The symbol for potassium is "K" and I remembered the Latin name for it is Kalium. It means the ashes of plants or calcined ashes. It was surprising that I had made a connection since it was out of the blue, but I'm glad I remembered it.
Sydney

Latin in English

Sophie Kate

In my English class with Mrs. Shreve, lots of what we read allude to ancient Roman culture. Most of the time we will see Roman culture show up when reading poems or short stories. Specifically, in the Great Gatsby, there is more of a connection between both 1920s prosperity and Rome. When reading this novel in English class I could not help but connect the two cultures together. In ancient Rome, the rich are the ruling culture who make become rich through and popular through political popularity. The same is true in the Great Gatsby as most of the rich became rich through political gain or big business. Also, the way they lived was similar, as in The Great Gatsby they through big lavish parties with lots of food and lived in big lavish houses that only the very rich could, in Roman Culture they through lots of parties specifically for political relationships and lived in houses that only the very rich could. Although there is no specific part in Great Gatsby where they allude to Roman culture, you can see bits and pieces of how the two eras are similar. Being able to see similarities between the two helped me to better understand the two as I learned about the Roman culture before I did the 1920s.