Our Book Club selection for November is C. Suetonius Tranquillus: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars,which provides portraits not only of their lives but of their appearance, family, and personal characteristics. We will start and continue discussion in the Forum, and meet via Zoom at 11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, November 30. Read more
It seemed that when I watched TV programmes about Rome they featured gruesome death, sex, or communal toilets. Now I know that death, sex and toilets are part of life, but I did not want my first cruise to the Western Mediterranean, and my first trips to Rome and Pompeii, to focus on them. In preparation, I read Mary Beard’s Pompeii, and researched various places the ship would visit. I… Read more
Virgil, who lived during the same era as Augustus, wrote the Aeneid. This epic poem tells the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his adventures to found a new city in Italy and to start a new generation for the beginning of Rome. Augustus is cited several times in the Aeneid. This Gallery will show pictures of art inspired from the Aeneid and from the Roman Republic, and the… Read more
