View from the Magdelensberg
(This post dates originally from 2020 – rinsed and repeated for 2021 and 2022, but the good news is that I AM going there in May/June 2023!)
At last! I was going to Roma Nova for my holiday in June; from 8-23 June 2020 to be precise.
Okay, I […]
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I haven’t written anything here on the Roma Nova blog about the current havoc wreaked across the world by Covid-19, the coronavirus. You can read a few of my thoughts here and here on my writing blog.
But as you probably know, Rome had its fair share of rampant disease not least the Antonine Plagues […]
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The Baths at Caracalla, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1899
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.
Today we see bathing as something we do privately in the home, but bathing in Rome was a communal, social […]
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