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| − | <div style="border:thin solid #aaaaaa; padding:1em; background-color:#eeeeee"> | + | <div style="border:thin solid #aaaaaa; padding:1em; background-color:#eeeeee">If you need to communicate about the wiki, leave a note at [[NovaRoma:Admin_Requests]]. [http://www.novaroma.org/civitas/album?id=7619 My Album Gentium page] has more ways to contact me. E-mail is not the best way. |
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| − | If you need to communicate about the wiki, leave a note at [[NovaRoma:Admin_Requests]]. [http://www.novaroma.org/civitas/album?id=7619 My Album Gentium page] has more ways to contact me. | + | |
I have a full-time university teaching post. When school is in session I may take a long time to respond.</div> | I have a full-time university teaching post. When school is in session I may take a long time to respond.</div> | ||
| − | <div class="scriptum"> | + | <div class="scriptum">"Every minute think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what you have in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and with a feeling of affection and of freedom, and of justice, and to keep yourself free of all other thoughts. You will keep yourself free of other thoughts if you do every act as though it were your last, and if you put aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the dictates of reason, and hypocrisy and self-love and discontent with your station in life." ~ M. Aurelius Antoninus, adapted from the George Long translation.</div> |
| − | "Every minute think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what you have in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and with a feeling of affection and of freedom, and of justice, and to keep yourself free of all other thoughts. You will keep yourself free of other thoughts if you do every act as though it were your last, and if you put aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the dictates of reason, and hypocrisy and self-love and discontent with your station in life." ~ M. Aurelius Antoninus, adapted from the George Long translation. | + | |
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==Gift ideas for Saturnalia== | ==Gift ideas for Saturnalia== | ||
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Hodie est
If you need to communicate about the wiki, leave a note at NovaRoma:Admin_Requests. My Album Gentium page has more ways to contact me. E-mail is not the best way.
I have a full-time university teaching post. When school is in session I may take a long time to respond.
"Every minute think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what you have in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and with a feeling of affection and of freedom, and of justice, and to keep yourself free of all other thoughts. You will keep yourself free of other thoughts if you do every act as though it were your last, and if you put aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the dictates of reason, and hypocrisy and self-love and discontent with your station in life." ~ M. Aurelius Antoninus, adapted from the George Long translation.
Gift ideas for Saturnalia
From our commercial partners.
Saturnalia Greeting Cards, buttons and other gifts from my CafePress Shop.
Playmobil: Roman Arena
One of a range of Roman-themed toys from Playmobil.
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Silver Sonya by Meredith Bragg (Performer)
CD containing the song Plinian, as featured on the Vox Romana podcast #6. Singing and acoustic guitar by Meredith Bragg. The other songs on this CD are just as literate as Plinian. Much of the CD seems inspired by ruminations on classical studies. SPIN magazine has a review and a download of Plinian.
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HABA: Roman Coliseum Building Block Set
HABA has a number of architectural sets based on Roman and classical themes.
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Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny The Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius
Pliny. (September 17, 2007). Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum. ISBN 0892369000
Hardcover, 40 pages. This slim volume features Barry Moser engravings.
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Hardcover, 40 pages. This slim volume features Barry Moser engravings.
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Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide
Filippo Coarelli (Author), J Anthony Clauss (Illustrator), James J. Clauss (Translator), Daniel P. Harmon (Translator). (2008). University of California Press. ISBN 0520079612
Paperback.
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Paperback.
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Rome : An Oxford Archaeological Guide (Oxford Archaeological Guides)
A. Claridge. (1998). Oxford. ISBN 0192880039
Paperback. A must-have guide to archaeological Rome. Divides the city into zones and describes each major (and many minor features) in great detail. Makes extensive use of line drawings and maps. Get this one before any other as a gift for anyone planning a trip to the City.
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Paperback. A must-have guide to archaeological Rome. Divides the city into zones and describes each major (and many minor features) in great detail. Makes extensive use of line drawings and maps. Get this one before any other as a gift for anyone planning a trip to the City.
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A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
L. Richardson, Jr.. (October 1, 1992). The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801843006
Hardcover, 496 pages. Contributed by See a preview at Google books or read a review at BMCR
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Hardcover, 496 pages. Contributed by See a preview at Google books or read a review at BMCR
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Penates plaque and other statues from our friends at Sacred Source
An Introduction to Roman Religion
John Scheid, Janet Lloyd (Translator). (n.d.) ISBN 0253216605
This is an English translation of the book La Religion des Romains (ISBN 2200263775) . This book is a must for all those who wish to know what the Religio Romana was and how it was practiced. It is written in the form of a manual, a small booklet very easy to read, with lots of notes, quotations and illustrations.
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This is an English translation of the book La Religion des Romains (ISBN 2200263775) . This book is a must for all those who wish to know what the Religio Romana was and how it was practiced. It is written in the form of a manual, a small booklet very easy to read, with lots of notes, quotations and illustrations.
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