On the road to Rome

I do love a good Roman road.

In ‘The Idealist’ my contribution to the recent Betrayal anthology, Statia Mitela could not have fulfilled her mission in 1849 Rome without these roads built by her ancestors and which have endured as routes and often the only properly paved road in the area through the millennia.

You […]

December 18th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Latin, Photos, Research, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Romans, Travel | 2 comments

The next full-length Roma Nova story

Now I’m going back in time to AD 370…

The Roma Nova series has two main strands: one with four books set in the 21st century featuring Carina Mitela and the other set between the late 1960s to early 1980s featuring Aurelia Mitela. The short story collection ROMA NOVA EXTRA includes a couple of […]

August 31st, 2020 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Alternate history, Alternative history, Books, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman military, Roman traditions, Romans, Short stories | 4 comments

Bored little Romans at home?

I haven’t written anything here on the Roma Nova blog about the current havoc wreaked across the world by Covid-19, the coronavirus. You can read a few of my thoughts here and here on my writing blog.

But as you probably know, Rome had its fair share of rampant disease not least the Antonine Plagues […]

April 6th, 2020 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Books, Interruptions, Photos, Roman life, Roman military, Romans, Useful stuff | 2 comments
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