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''Hebdomada Aenigmatum'' is the first magazine of
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s in
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Contents

The magazine features several crosswords and word puzzles in Latin, a variation of
Sudoku Sudoku (; ja, 数独, sūdoku, digit-single; originally called Number Place) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row ...
with Roman numerals, a section with global news, a comic strip of Incredibilis Snupius (English:
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) and a section on miscellaneous subjects (including films, recipes and sport). Special editions included two Christmas editions (“Editio Natalicia”) in December 2014 and December 2015 and the “Ego sum Carolus” (
Je suis Charlie "'" (, ) is a slogan and logo created by French art director Joachim Roncin and adopted by supporters of freedom of speech and freedom of the press after the 7 January 2015 shooting in which twelve people were killed at the offices of the Fr ...
) edition in January 2015 to support freedom of speech after the
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at the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The first crossword puzzle in ancient Greek appeared in April 2015 as an annex to the 9th issue of ''Hebdomada Aenigmatum''. It developed into a separate magazine with the name of ''Ὀνόματα Kεχιασμένα'' (''Onomata Kechiasmena''). with crosswords, word puzzles, 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.


Organization and initiatives

Launched in June 2014, ''Hebdomada Aenigmatum'' is published monthly and is available free of charge upon registration on the website. The
editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Lucas Cupidus in collaboration with Herimannus Novocomensis, Iconoclastes, Lydia Ariminensis, Theodorus. A contest of Latin crosswords (Certamen Aenigmatum Latinorum) has been organized twice by the Greek-Latin Festival in 2016 and 2018 at the
École normale supérieure de Lyon The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...
. Latin crosswords have been the subject of several conferences at
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 w ...
. Both ''Hebdomada Aenigmatum'' and ''Onomata Kechiasmena'' are included in a memorandum of understanding with the Italian Ministry of Education to promote the use of Latin and Greek crosswords as a tool to facilitate learning ancient languages.Memorandum of Understanding with the Italian Ministry of Education


References

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