Monthly Archives: November 2017
ST. ANDREW’S DAY PRINTABLES
Happy St. Andrew’s Day! https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/st-andrews-day-printables
ROMAN-THEMED TV & MOVIE IDEAS
November’s TV and/or movie suggestions are all Roman based: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum (Musical, 1966) Asterix Vs. Caesar (Animated, 1985) Carry On Cleo (1964) (Roman Egypt) Gladiator (2000) (14+) The Roman Mysteries BBC TV Series Up Pompeii (1971) Further Up Pompeii (1991)
TRIVIA TRAIL: EUROPE’S FIRST SUPERHIGHWAY
Question: What is Rome’s most famous ancient road called? Answer: The Via Appia, or Appian Way, which visitors to Rome can still walk along. (The Romans built things to last.) Begun by Appius Claudius Caecus in 312 BC, it started in Rome and by 244 BC went all the way to Brundisium (Brindisi) on the […]
HISTORIC WORTH-A-VISIT: ROMAN VILLA RECREATION
Ruins are all very well but, if you want to do more than just image a Roman villa in its heyday, and happen to be in Malibu, California … http://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/experience-ancient-roman-villa-heart-malibu
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’: ROMAN-THEMED BOOKS
November’s book suggestions are Roman based. Ages 3-7 Aesops’s Fables by Aesop (Greek Slave in Ancient Times) Ranger In Time # 2: Danger In Ancient Rome by Kate Messner (6 & Up) Romulus & Remus by Anne Rockwell Ages 7-9 Hopscotch Histories: The Song Of Boudicaby Mick Gower (Roman Britain) I Survived The Destruction Of […]
HISTORIC WORTH-A-VISIT: ROME’S ROMAN GLADIATOR SCHOOL
Not having been there for over four decades, I went to Italy last year to research the last novel in my Time Rose series. My son went, too (to research film stuff), and one of the places we visited was the Gruppo Storico Romano’s (Roman History Group’s) gladiator school in Rome. I sat out the ‘training […]
Time Travelling With Kids 