Category: Everything Latin
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The Roman Custom
”It is much better to overcome the enemy by famine, surprise or terror than by general actions…” – Flavius Vegetius Renatus, writer Livy, writing during the reign of Augustus after thirteen years of civil war and the possibility of moral collapse in the Roman people, highlighted the wisdom of Romes’ ancestors, for they had built…
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650 Caesar & Mark Antony Coins unearthed in Turkey
Photograph courtesy of Pamukkale University Isis Davis-Marks wrote this report that was published in the Smithsonian Magazine in February 2021. Minted between 75 and 4 B.C., these silver coins were probably buried by a high-ranking Roman soldier during Augustus’ reign, writes Isis Davis-Marks in the Smithsonian Magazine February 10th 2021 Archaeologists in the ancient Turkish city…
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Roman Road built by Agricola discovered in Scotland
The following is an article printed in The Independent newpaper in November 2023 by Laura Paterson An ancient Roman Road said to be used by key historical figures including William the Conqueror, Oliver Cromwell and every King and Queen of Scotland, has been found in a garden near Stirling. The road dates back almost 2,000…
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Volcanic Ash Concrete: The Marvel of Roman Engineering
Herod the Great’s Roman-built harbour at Caesarea Maritima, present-day Israel We’ve known about it for centuries, but now it seeems we are willing to study the properties and chemical mixture of Roman concrete in a little more depth, because it is particularly well suited to marine structures, and could help us out of what is now a global…
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Rome
urbs Roma manet semperque manebit (the city of Rome remains, and will always remain) Photograph: Temple of Faustina Palatine Hill You search in Rome for Rome? Oh traveller! In Rome itself there is no room for Rome, a corpse is all its churches put on show, the Aventine is its own mound and tomb. There,…
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This Bloody Road
The Appian Way is named so after its founder, Appius Claudius Caecus. In 312 BC, Caecus, a Roman censor and engineer, started the road to improve military supply issues to and from Rome. Statius, a 1st century AD Greek-Roman poet, said the road was often referred to as the “Queen of the Long Roads”( Appia…
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Hades: The Mythological Underworld
Cerberus who guarded Hades To tell the story of the beginning of the universe, the time of Chaos (literally ‘Yawning Gap’ – the infinite space between heaven and earth), and the gods that followed it in Greek mythology, is no straightforward affair. There are a multitude of characters, all with different roles to play, but…
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Hadrian & Antinous: The Roman Empire’s LGBTQ+ Heritage
Publius Aelius Hadrianus assumed control over the vast Roman Empire in AD 117 following the death of his adoptive father, Trajan. He was born in AD 76 in Rome, his family coming from ltalica in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica (near Seville in modern-day Spain). Hadrian’s father having died when he was ten, he and…
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2,200 year old Roman Bronze Battering Ram found off the coast of Sicily
By Jennifer Nalewicki in Live Science,published 30/08/2024 Researchers have uncovered a bronze battering ram off the coast of Sicily. The weapon would have been used during the Battle of the Aegates between Rome and Carthage. A Roman battering ram found at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea was used during an epic battle that unfolded more than 2,200…
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Roman Wall Blues
W.H. Auden Over the heather the wet wind blows,I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky,I’m a Wall soldier, I don’t know why. The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,My girl’s in Tungria; I sleep alone. Aulus goes hanging around her place,I don’t…
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