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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 […] Roman curse tablet from Bath (Photo by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)) The wish to curse a rival, a rip-off merchant, or somebody who cuts us up on the motorway or pushes in front of us in the queue for the first life-saving coffee of the day, is an age old instinct. Nowadays, when we […] |
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