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The Temple of Venus and Rome

A Rome's Birthday Latin escape room for Latin IV

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

Rome's birthday, AD 121: the emperor Hadrian dedicates the largest temple in the city, to Venus and to Roma herself. Solve seven puzzles to follow the procession to the altar.

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 gerundive of obligation
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of The Temple of Venus and Rome

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the city, the gods and the ceremony, in Latin from Book 4.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the ceremony.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, laudō ("praise") and colō ("worship"), as gerundives of obligation ("must be …").
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the temple steps, 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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