Could this be what Roma Nova looks like?

View from St Katerina, above the Vintner Gorge, Slovenia

When I placed Roma Nova, the setting for the Carina and Aurelia adventures, in ‘Central Europe’ (wherever that is), it was vaguely based on Austria and Slovenia. I was lucky enough to visit both countries this year (2023) and see some wonderful Roman archaeology. […]

September 11th, 2023 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Research, Roma Nova, Settings, Travel | 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)