New Romans for old?

Legate, senate, imperial secretaries, centurion, people’s tribunes, praetor, vigiles? All terms we may know from ancient Rome. What are they doing in the 20th and 21st centuries? Well, they’re used in Roma Nova, the (imaginary) last Roman province in the West that survived into the modern age.

Roma Novans have kept many of these words […]

March 28th, 2016 | Tags: , , | Category: Alternate history, Research, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

America in the world of Roma Nova

In summer 2015, I visited the USA and part of Canada. It was seven weeks of hectic fun. In Washington, one of the highlights was a visit to the Library of Congress, specifically the Jefferson Building. It was ‘all kinds of awesome’: the magnificent colourful entrance hall and sumptuous steps, Jefferson’s book collection, an original […]

January 8th, 2016 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Alternate history, INCEPTIO, Insights, Research, Roma Nova | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)

Cursing the Roman way

Roman curse tablet from Bath (Photo by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net))

The wish to curse a rival, a rip-off merchant, or somebody who cuts us up on the motorway or pushes in front of us in the queue for the first life-saving coffee of the day, is an age old instinct. Nowadays, when we […]

December 26th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Latin, Research, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
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