Now I’m going back in time to AD 370…
The Roma Nova series has two main strands: one with four books set in the 21st century featuring Carina Mitela and the other set between the late 1960s to early 1980s featuring Aurelia Mitela. The short story collection ROMA NOVA EXTRA includes a couple of […]
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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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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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