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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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popular.With the wine and the sale of large games
they have been enriched and built the beautiful
house where they live. Is also famous, in Pompeii
the innkeeper Eusino: it is enough to write to
"Euxino" on the amphoraes destined for him, the
product reaches him in the cellars.
"We have peeled cucumbers with garum
(cucumeres rasos ex liquamine) and sea balls made
with crabs, prawns, squid, cuttlefish and lobster,
seasoned with pepper, ligustic, cumin and laser root
(Esicia marina de cammaris et astacis, de lolligine,
de sepia, de locusta. Esicia condiuntur pipere,
ligustico, cumino, laseris radice). On the contrary
our friend Silvie prefers a peach pie (patina de
persicis) (Apicius, De re coquinaria, II, 1,1, III, 6,
1, IV, 2, 34).
history was enriched by the knowledge learned in
the classroom: the Latin language, the authors of
literature, ancient history, classical civilization in its
various anthropological aspects: geography,
culinary competed in composing this narrative that
was so not fantastic at the end, because the news
were all taken from the sources, all found in the
authors. And it was left to the free choice of
students to enrich the narration of what they
considered interesting.
This is an eTwinning project realized years ago; but
it is an example for those who want to try not the
paths of the unknown today, but those of a
didactics that stimulates the creativity and interest
of the students.
While at the table we are enjoing the "posca" and
the cake Silvie, we can listen to a gentleman sitting
at the next table talking to a friend of the show that
will take place in the early afternoon in the city
theatre.
The journey continues. And let's stop in Caudium.
The city is located on the Appian Way, about 12
miles from the city of Benevento; it is in the
middle of the Valle Caudina, a fertile and pleasant
valley, rich in agricultural, artisan and commercial
businesses, and it has a considerable strategic
interest, controlling the outlet of the valley towards
Benevento. So we can read in the tourist guide we
have with us, [Tabula Peutingeriana and Strabo's
Geography] and in which are also reported news
about the inhabitants, their uses and their history.
The Valle Caudina is limited by Mount Taburno
[altitude 1300 m.s.l.m.] to the northwest and the
mountains of Partenio from south-east to south-
west.
Virgilio Iandiorio is teacher of classical languages in
high schools, then headmaster of liceo classico and
scientifico in several cities of Italy. He has made
important projects of cultural exchanges with
several European schools. He has joined the
eTwinning program since its start. Currently, he
collaborates with provincial newspapers, with
weekly articles. He has published several books.
The story of the young "tourists trough": "Tired of
the journey we immediately go into a caupona;
here there are many and we can choose spoiled for
choice. Our attention is attracted by a rather
strange sign on the entrance door of one of these
inns: a yoke of lances (subjugatio). Silvie looks at
us smiling and exclaims: "Let's go to the Caudine
Forks!". The restaurant is welcoming. It is certainly
not the villa of Cocceio, quae