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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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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