A small child, curls bobbing on a head she’s forgotten to cover with the sunhat her mother insists on, crouches down on a Roman mosaic floor in north-east Spain. Mesmerised by the purity of the black and white pattern, the craftsmanship and the tiny marble squares, she almost doesn’t hear her father calling her to […]
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March 14th, 2015 | Tags: Catalonia, inspiration, Spain | Category: Alternate history, INCEPTIO, Insights, Latin, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman military, Romans | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) 
The Roma Nova heroines – Carina and Aurelia Mitela – are ‘tough gals’; dedicated, strong-willed, physically and mentally resilient and tied into their sense of history and duty. Underlying all this, their driving force is their self-belief. Carina, despite her disrupted childhood and separation from Roma Nova until she was twenty-four, has embraced Roma Novan […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!February 26th, 2015 | Tags: alternative history, gender, gender equality, gender roles, Heroes, heroines, historical | Category: Alternate history, Books, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, Roma Nova, Romans, SUCCESSIO, Women warriors, Women's history | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) When I first picked up Robert Harris’ Fatherland in my local independent bookshop in 1992, I was fascinated by the concept of ‘what if Nazi Germany had won the war?’ What would have been the alternate path of history? Fatherland was intrinsically a political thriller. In 1992, the whole of Europe was attempting to realign […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!February 2nd, 2015 | Tags: Books, Fatherland, historical, Nazi Germany, Pompeii, Robert Harris, Romans, Writing skills, Xavier March | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Roma Nova, Romans | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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