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Antony in the Forum

A Ides of March Latin escape room for Latin IV

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 4, Stages 35–40

Caesar's funeral in the Forum: Mark Antony holds up the bloodstained toga and reads out Caesar's will to a huge, grieving crowd. Solve seven puzzles to hear the end of the most famous funeral speech in history.

Play the free taster (2 of 7 locks)Members: full room

The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks. Sound adds to the atmosphere.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Vocabulary from Cambridge Latin Course Books 1–4 (to Stage 40)
  • Grammar: the subjunctive in indirect questions
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of Antony in the Forum

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — speeches, the crowd and grief, in Latin from Book 4.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the funeral.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, faciō ("do") and dīcō ("say"), in the subjunctive in indirect questions.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the Forum, then count what you see.
  6. Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
  7. Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.

Most classes take about 50 minutes. Students can work alone, in pairs or in small teams on any device with a browser, or you can project the room and solve it together as a class. Every answer checks itself, so you are free to circulate, and progress is saved in the browser, so a room can be split across two lessons.

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