Yesterday, the world jostled, thrilled and was overcome with excitement by the total eclipse of the sun by the moon. We’ve had scientific explanations, videos of eclipse-chasers setting out, scenes from Burgos in Spain where rooms and hotels had been booked for months, even years to see the 100% eclipse. News headlines and social […]
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Painting of Baths of Caracalla by Laurence Alma Tadema
Baths were such an intrinsic part of the Roman world that we can’t think of one without the other. Everybody went to the baths – everybody. Read how here.
Well, none of us like to smell. A recent trip to the former bathhouse in […]
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Inventing a military unit like the 21st century Praetorian Guard Special Forces in my Roma Nova books was a risk.
However, I chose to use the old Roman name because, although the original cohortes praetoriae became corrupt, they were the courageous, battle-hardened elite who guarded the Ancient Roman emperor’s life with theirs.
Today in Roma […]
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