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I’ve clambered over, through or on a fair bit of Roman Europe. Let me share a few with you… My first Roman mosaic floor, Ampurias/Empúries, Catalonia I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and touching. The tiny exquisite tile pieces, the faultless geometric patterns, the vast expanse of it and the stunning setting by the […] 
Legate, senate, imperial secretaries, centurion, people’s tribunes, praetor, vigiles? All terms we may know from ancient Rome. What are they doing in the 20th and 21st centuries? Well, they’re used in Roma Nova, the (imaginary) last Roman province in the West that survived into the modern age. Roma Novans have kept many of these words […] Isca Dumnoniorum c. AD 350 I’ve been over in Devon staying with my writing friend Helen Hollick for a week and yesterday we visited Exeter, including the museum. Of course, I went for the Roman stuff! The Romans established a large castrum (fortified camp) named Isca around AD 55 at the southwest end […] |
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