British Museum - Rome

British Museum - Ancient Rome

The Museum has an extensive collection of artefacts from Rome and Roman Britain. Explore the link above and stay tuned for more information.

I am a viking... my DNA says so...

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Viking/article-2615568-detail/article.html

This is part of ongoing DNA studies in small towns in England.

hmmm....

Thank you to the previous blog-posters. Am sure everyone will find your posts very useful.......NOT!

A great website to help you start your research!

http://www.history.com/interactives/warriors-game

you can thank me later guys!

Just for fun..

This could potentially help some of you in your term 4 assignments...

I know it won't but its just too good!

Piccie-wiccies.

Got back from the UK last week, so I thought I should post some photos I took at the British Museum while I was there. I was surprised we were allowed to take photos at all!! The collection was quite impressive, and the way the artifacts were catalogued and presented was pretty interesting as well. I've got a museum map and information booklet I'll bring in to class next time I see you guys. Anyway, it's not much, but enjoy. xx



Head of Augustus, found in Egypt (sorry about the rotation!)
The plaque says the head was decapitated and buried after an attack by armies from modern-day Sudan; an act intending to destroy the head and shame Augustus, but which inadvertently preserved the statue.



Mummified Cats from Egypt



Palace of Darius at Persepolis, Iran



Relief from Persepolis

check itunesU

I searched for Persian Wars and there are a couple of Universities that have podcasts for the Persian Wars as well as Persian and Greek history - a good idea to consider the wars from the Persian perspective!

In addition, these unis have heaps of stuff on the Peloponnesian Wars - that is what we study after the Persian Wars and you have an essay test on it... get downloading, girls! It is all free!

illuminating the Wall

to celebrate 2000 years of Roman history in Britain, residents and wall enthusiasts illuminated the wall from coast to coast... check it ou:

http://www.illuminatinghadrianswall.com/site/

So I found this video...

It may be useful for anyone thinking about doing the battle of Thermopylae. The website looks like it may have some good information about the Persian Wars in general as well, so you might be able to grab some stuff from it. Enjoy. :)

Click here.

(http://www.history.com/topics/leonidas/videos#battle-of-thermopylae-spartans-prepare)

Have you missed me????

So I'm sitting here on this lovely summer evening in Wimbledon watching the FIFA World Cup, and I just made an interesting little observation.

Remember Nero and his professional clappers? Well geuss what the North Korean Football team has? PROFESSIONAL SYCHRONISED CLAPPERS! How cool!! They even have their own conductor!

Anyway, thought you guys missed my input in class, so i wanted to tell you what kind of school work I've been doing these past few days ... (none except watching professional clappers).

Photo's from the Brit Museum will be up soon, including photos of Ancient Persian armour and weaponary! And of mummified cats, how cute reeooww!
Oh and Ms. O, I got you a present muahaha.

Anyway cheerio, enjoy your holidays.
Love Nadia

(p.s. it just took a lot of will power to not talk more about the wittle mummified cats, i'll save it for when I get back)

Looking for some reading?

http://www.boisestate.edu/courses/westciv/persian/

pre-reading ideas for your holidays!

or this Agrippa?

This is HBO came up with for their Agrippa casting call. Which do you prefer?

Agrippa

Bust of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa from the Louvre, Paris

Hadrian's Pantheon was built to replace the previous temple that had been built during Agrippa's rule. Hadrian retained the legend M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT, which means Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul for the third time, built this

Roman Historians - Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Although there is some terrible advertising on this website, this might provide some quick links to certain historians if you need it.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekhistorians/p/081309GreekHistorians.htm

Herodotus

Octavian in the Senate

Cleopatra meets Octavian

Do not be fooled by all the 'nice talk'! There is only one reason Octavian would want Cleo and her kids in Rome... assassination!

debunked archaeological theories

if you ever thought an archaeological theory eas 'dodgey', then you were probably right. This site debunks several theories you may have thought were right.

http://www.badarchaeology.wordpress.com/

Caesar in the senate

This clip is from the HBO Rome series. The series is NOT always historcially correct, therefore, you CAN NOT use it as a source in your work. However, you have many primary and secondary sources you can use to verify what you see in this clip.

some internet resources to explore

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html

the above website is full of priomary sources... Julius Caesar was an author as well as a general!

http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/ropage.htm

above is a list of various essays and articles that you can search

Timeline of Gaius Julius Ceaser

Basic timeline of Julius Ceasers life that may help with your assignments!

July 13, 100 Caesar's Birth
84 Marries daughter of L. Cornelius Cinna
80-78 Goes to Asia
75 Captured by Pirates
73 Elected Pontifex
69 Cornelia dies
67 Marries Pompeia
65 Elected Aedile
63 Elected Pontifex Maximus
62 Divorces Pompeia
61 Governor of Further Spain
60 Becomes Consul and forms the Triumvirate
59 Consul. Marries Calpurnia
58 Defeats Helvetii and Germans
55 Crosses the Rhine; Invades Britain
54 His daughter, Pompey's wife, dies
53 Crassus killed
52 Clodius murdered; Caesar defeats Vercingetorix
49 Crosses the Rubicon - Civil War begins
48 Pompey murdered
45 Declared dictator for life
44 Ides of March, assassinated

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_time_caesar.htm

HI EVERYONE! its Sara and Catherine here :) We just found the fam tree showing the relationship between Julius Ceasar and L. Cornelius Sulla. Thought it may be interesting to know :)

Battle of Cannae

I mentioned this battle today when we were talking about military defeats. I said that 10,000 Roman soldiers were killed. I was wrong..... 50,000 were killed. That is half the Roman army!

This is a nifty re-enactment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHge4FQ8aM

Marius' reforms

pro Gracchi vs anti-Gracchi

Where do you sit? Consider all the evidence presented to you and decide which historians have made the right conclusions about the Gracchi brothers......

Tiberius Gracchus

plebeian writers

In light of all you have read so far about patricians and plebeians, why are the historians you know generally plebeians?

Cicero, Juvenal, Martial…… all plebeians.

Why do you think Patricians were not writers? Comments please

(This is Cicero)

copyright and referencing

Some important things to consider....

If you post information, images or photos from the internet onto this blog, I would like you to reference the website you got it from. In brackets, just add the link or the author's name and date if it is from a book. It is no different to referencing work in your assignment. If it is personal (eg your own holiday photos) then make sure they are suitable for view. For obvious images, such as the standard to the left, referencing is not needed. If in doubt, just ask!

welcome

Welcome to 2010!

The final year of your schooling begins today. Are you ready?

This blog is designed to be a space for you to post discoveries you make about the subject you are studying. Specifically, it is a place to include websites, courses, travel ideas, conferences and other sites you find while surfing the net. In addition, you can use it to post some of your favourite photos, images or descriptions of the people, places and events you are studying. It is designed for the "interesting stuff" that falls outside of the "academic stuff" on Blackboard!

To get you started, I have included a link to the British Museum.

http://www.britishmuseum.org/