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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Modern Roman cops – Carabinieri (Author photo)
Thinking about police, gendarmes and emergency services in the past few days brought me to the law enforcers of Ancient Rome.
Faced with terrorist attack (or riot, revolt and rebellion), they would have been robust in their attitude and actions. So who policed Rome?
Vigiles as […]
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Travel is a wide concept. It doesn’t just mean trotting up the steps to a plane or sitting back looking out of a train window, or even visiting entrancing and exotic places.
Travel can be in the mind, across hundreds or possibly thousands of years, into other realities and mentalities, even into an alternative […]
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