Hebdomada Aenigmatum
Hebdomada Aenigmatum is the first magazine of crosswords and puzzles in Latin.
It is published monthly by the Italian cultural association Leonardo, in collaboration with the online Latin news magazine Ephemeris and with ELI publishing house. It is available free of charge in printable pdf format upon registration on the website.
The magazine features several crosswords and word puzzles in Latin, a variation of Sudoku with Roman numerals, chess problems, etc.. In addition, it features a section with global news, a comic strip of Incredibilis Snupius (English: Snoopy) and a section on miscellaneous subjects (including films, recipes and sport).
The editor-in-chief is Luca Desiata alias "Lucas Cupidus".
Special editions
Editio Natalicia
The "Editio Natalicia" (or Christmas Edition) was published in December 2014. It featured word puzzles on Jingle Bells in Latin (Tinniat tintinnabulum), Silent Night (Silens Nox), a rebus and more games in Latin, all of them with some reference to Christmas.
Ego sum Carolus
"Ego sum Carolus" is the Latin translation of Je suis Charlie. The "Ego sum Carolus" slogan was adopted by the editorial committee of Hebdomada Aenigmatum to support freedom of speech after the 7 January 2015 massacre at the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. The "Ego sum Carolus" edition was published in January 2015 and featured the magazine cover, a rebus and a comic strip of Incredibilis Snupius dedicated to Charlie Hebdo.
΄΄Onomata Kexiasmena
Ὀνόματα Kεχιασμένα (Onomata Kexiasmena) is the first magazine of crosswords and puzzles in Ancient Greek. It was launched at the end of April 2015 as an annex to the 9th issue of Hebdomada Aenigmatum. Oνόματα Kεχιασμένα features crosswords, word puzzles where all consonants have been replaced with numerals, a “crucipuzzle” (search of words within a schema), join-the-dots where the dots are sequentially marked with Greek letters, a strip of Asterix in ancient Greek, two pages of recent news in ancient Greek in collaboration with Akropolis World News.
References
- Squires, Nick (12 November 2014), "Can you crack the world's first Latin crossword", The Telegraph, London
- Kington, Tom (13 November 2014), "Crossword in Latin is clue the language is alive", The Times, London
- "Cruciverbum", The Times, London, 13 November 2014
- "Hebdomada Aenigmatum: First Latin puzzle book launched", BBC, London, 14 November 2014
External links
- Official website
- Ephemeris
- ELI
- Ansa (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata)
- Festival Europeen Latin Grec
- Akropolis World News