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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Me standing in the bathhouse
When you think of Milton Keynes in the UK, you might be forgiven for visualising concrete cows or muttering “new town” to yourself. But the Romans got there well before. Of course they did. 🙂
Bancroft Roman Villa was originally a fairly simple winged-corridor house, but eventually became […]
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