Monthly Archives: November 2017
HISTORY SHARE: ST. ANDREW’S DAY PRINTABLES
Happy St. Andrew’s Day! https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/st-andrews-day-printables
HISTORY TIDBIT: THE FALL OF ROME
The Roman Empire reigned supreme over most of the western world for almost five hundred years, but in 476 AD, a barbarian mercenary called Odoacer decided he’d rather be a barbarian chieftain than a Roman solider and turned on Rome. Two days after leading his followers to victory at the Battle of Ravenna on September […]
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR NOVEMBER
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 […]
HISTORY SHARE: 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
HISTORY SHARE: PLINY THE YOUNGER’S ACCOUNT OF THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, a Roman senator and writer more commonly known as Pliny the Younger, was seventeen at the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. (Whether that happened in August or October of that year is up for debate, but the year itself is pretty much accepted.) Being just across […]
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’
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 […]
HISTORY SHARE: 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 […]
