Roman forearm handshake - true gesture or Hollywood codswallop?

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When two people meet formally for the first time, it’s customary to shake hands. Similarly, it’s something you do on parting, offering congratulations, expressing gratitude, or completing an agreement. In sports or other competitive activities, it’s also done as […]

April 22nd, 2015 | Tags: , , | Category: Alternate history, Provocations, Research, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Women warriors | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Governing Britain the Roman way

Ever since Julius Caesar had a pop at the northern isles in 55/54BC as part of his Gallic Wars campaign (and didn’t get very far), Britain has been difficult to govern. Whether wars of succession or civil wars, barons or peasants v. kings, Saxons v. post-Romans, constitutional government v. chartists, Fenians, suffragists, unions or agitators, […]

April 6th, 2015 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Insights, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Romans | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Ampurias - one of the inspirations for Roma Nova’s existence

A small child, curls bobbing on a head she’s forgotten to cover with the sunhat her mother insists on, crouches down on a Roman mosaic floor in north-east Spain. Mesmerised by the purity of the black and white pattern, the craftsmanship and the tiny marble squares, she almost doesn’t hear her father calling her to […]

March 14th, 2015 | Tags: , , | Category: Alternate history, INCEPTIO, Insights, Latin, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman military, Romans | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
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