This tag: Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome and its encounters with Celtic Britain Britain was part of the Roman Empire for nearly 400 years from AD 43 to 410 but the association of the two civilisations went back a further century to Julius Caesar’s invasion of 55 BC. The Romans were clearly obsessed with Celtic Britain. The day will conclude… Read more »
This tag: Ancient Rome
This course ran at the City Lit and the British Museum on Saturday 15th October 2016. I also ran it as a three day course between Saturday 3rd and Saturday 17th November 2018. During the pandemic I ran the course twice online over three evenings: 15th, 22nd and 29th January 2021 and 16th, 23rd and 30th… Read more »
- Posted on: November 24, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, British Museum, Colossus of Rhodes, European History, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Pharos of Alexandria, Pyramids, Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders of the World and the British Museum, Temple of Artemis, Zeus
This tag: Ancient Rome
Great Sea Battles from the Classical World – Salamis, Syracuse and Actium A general look at ships and sailing techniques in the Ancient World and how vessels were used in warfare. This course was run at the National Maritime Museum on Sunday 25th March 2018. We looked at the strategies used by navies in… Read more »
- Posted on: March 30, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Actium, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Naval Warfare, Ancient Greek Warships, Ancient History, Ancient Naval Warfare, Ancient Roman Naval Warfare, Ancient Roman Warships, Battle of Actium, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Syracuse, Etruscans, European History, Greenwich, Naval Warfare, Salamis