This site allows you to view the Bayeux Tapestry as a continuous roll, the way you would viewed it if you were to visit the Museum where it is now displayed:
This link will take you to the full Bayeux Tapestry index consisting of 35 parts. Here, you may choose the section that interests you. A full Latin - English translation is included. http://hastings1066.com/bay...
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Each episode of Rome: Power and Glory charts a chapter in the growth of one of the world's greatest empires. Encompassing over two million square miles and standing for nearly 1,300 years, the Roman Empire was crucial in determining the future direction and stance of the great empires that would follow her. Through the use of computer graphics, careful research, and re-creations, the lives of those who lived under the aegis of Rome spring to life. This particular episode focuses on the very beginnings of the Empire, beginnings that are shrouded in mystery. Where did the Romans come from? How did they manage to subsume the empires around them?
Legions of Conquest
This particular episode focuses on the military might of the Roman Empire. It examines the Roman legions, highly organized forces that stretched Rome's domination from the foggy hills of Scotland to the burning sands of Africa's deserts. Some of Rome's greatest military campaigns are described, including the war against Carthage and the great general Hannibal. Also examined are the changes in the Roman army over time and the dissolution and scheming that they led to.
Seduction of Power
This particular episode focuses on the political life of the Roman Empire. Through republics, dictatorships, and monarchies, the Roman people struggled to find a balance between absolutist policy and the inclusive, representative governments they claimed to value so highly. The rise of Julius Caesar is described in some detail.
This particular episode focuses on the years that would come to be known as the Pax Romana, the centuries of peace Rome imposed on the Mediterranean basin. The lasting legacy of that peace is seen through Roman-built roads, aqueducts, and enormous state buildings. The human cost of that peace is examined, contrasting the lives of Romans with those of the slaves that kept them in such style.
Cult of Order
This particular episode focuses on the dissent raised by the Romans who protested the slide of the Empire into decadence. Coincident with this feeling was the rise of Christianity, and, of course, intensive efforts by the Empire to suppress the new religion.
The Fall
This particular episode focuses on the decline of the Empire, due primarily to succession of weak rulers unable to face down the army and an increasingly intransigent bureaucracy. The upshot of this decline was the decision of the Emperor Constantine to move the capital of the empire west, a move that for all intents and purposes plunged Europe into anarchy.
In the 1st century A.D., when Rome ruled the known world, an upstart female warrior in the far-flung province of Britain led a revolt that shook the foundations of the empire. Celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies wrote this spine-tingling drama about the fearsome Queen Boudica.
Colosseum: A Gladiator's Story travels back in time to the brutality and glamor of ancient Rome, to shed light on the true manner in which gladiators fought and trained. Throughout the special, historical facts about gladiators and the Colosseum are told via the true story of the gladiator Verus. He forges friendships with other trainee gladiators and learns that life as a gladiator can be nasty, brutish and short. But he also learns that, with luck, skill and sheer courage, a star gladiator can become rich, attract admiring hordes of women and ultimately earn his freedom. Coloseum follows Verus' rise to fame and relives his spectacular fight during the inaugural games at the Colosseum. The program also explores the building of the Colosseum, using computer animation to reveal the original beauty and ambition of its design.
The Doctor and Donna travel to Pompeii, the night before Mount Vesuvius erupts. When they arrive in A.D. 79, they discover psychic powers and beasts of stone running riot in the streets of old Pompeii. The time-travellers face their greatest challenge yet – can established history be changed, or must the Doctor let everyone die?
Plot
The episode begins with the Doctor and Donna exiting the TARDIS in what the Doctor claims is Rome in the first century A.D. Donna, noticing that the writing is in English, is sceptical until the Doctor explains to her that the TARDIS's telepathic circuits are translating for her. However, he's not so sure it's Rome... and Donna points out there is only one hill and not Rome's famous seven... and that it is smoking. Thus as an earth tremor rocks the streets the Doctor realises they have arrived not in Rome, but in Pompeii, on 23rd August - the day before Vesuvius' eruption.
As they retreat to the TARDIS, Donna tries to convince the Doctor that he should help evacuate the city, but he tells her he cannot interfere in established events. On arriving where they left the TARDIS, they find that a nearby stallholder has sold it to local marble merchant Caecilius, as a piece of "modern art".
Meanwhile, a member of the Sibylline sisterhood reports back on the appearance of a mysterious blue box in the marketplace, which they find is a fulfillment of a Sibylline prophecy.
At Caecilius's house, his wife Metella is preparing their prophetically-gifted but sickly daughter Evelina for the arrival of the town's augur Lucius Petrus Dextrus. The Doctor and Donna arrive before him and, when Dextrus arrives, he and the Doctor have a cryptic conversation that confirms the Doctor's worst suspicions: an alien influence is afoot in Pompeii. Worse yet, Caecilius unveils a marble plaque he has produced to Dextrus' designs... and it is recognizably an electrical circuit. Intrigued, the time-travellers stay but, after the Doctor accidentally insults Roman religion as "official superstition", Dextrus and Evelina "prophesise" truths about the Doctor and Donna, seeing their real names, naming Gallifrey and London as their true homes, mentioning the Doctor's presence at the Medusa Cascade, his status as a "Lord of Time", and Gallifrey's destruction. Evelina also states that his true name is not Doctor but is in fact "hidden". Dextrus warns the Doctor that "she" is returning and he tells Donna that "there is something on your back".
When Dextrus has gone, Donna investigates Evelina's mysterious skin ailment--and finds that the young woman's skin is turning into stone. Meanwhile, the Doctor is shown a hypocaust system powered by hot springs from Vesuvius itself and from which come monstrous sounds from "the gods of the underworld". This system, he is told, was installed after the A.D. 62 earthquake, on instructions from Dextrus and the other soothsayers. From that time onwards, the soothsayers have been inhaling rock dust from these hypocausts and all their predictions have been uncannily accurate though they have not predicted Vesuvius' imminent eruption.
The Doctor and Quintus break into Dextrus' house, finding a stone circuit board like those seen earlier in Caecilius' house. Meanwhile, Evelina gives Donna a stola, and talks about a teenager's life in Pompeii. Donna's hints about Vesuvius' impending eruption find no purchase with Evelina, and Donna realizes that none of the seers have foreseen it. She tells Evelina about the eruption, which Evelina telepathically passes onto the sisterhood. They and their High Priestess decide it is false prophecy, and that Donna must be killed.
Quintus and the Doctor, meanwhile, have been apprehended by Dextrus. The Doctor helps him assemble the marble plaques into a circuit board; and, when Dextrus then threatens to have his guards kill them, breaks off Dextrus's completely petrified right arm. He and Quintus then escape--but, hearing underground footsteps going towards Caecilius's house, return there to find that Dextrus has summoned a giant humanoid stone-and-magma creature from the hypocaust. The Doctor tells Donna to go and get water while he attempts to reason with the creature, but she has kidnapped by the sisterhood. It is Quintus who throws water on it, causing it to die and collapse.
The Doctor goes to rescue Donna, who is about to be murdered by the sisterhood. Conversing with their high priestess, he finds she has completely turned to stone. She reveals that she is being used as a host by one of the Pyroviles, aliens who crashed to Earth millenia before and were only re-awakened by the A.D. 62 earthquake. One of their adult forms is the creature they saw at Caecillus' villa. They are a psychic race, and have bonded psychically with some of the local humans. The Doctor is, however, unable to find how they are seeing the future with such accuracy.
Holding off the high priestess with a water pistol, Donna and the Doctor escape down the hypocaust. Dextrus and the high priestess both declare that their Pyrovile-induced prophecy of a Pompeiian empire must now advance. As they run, Donna attempts to convince the Doctor to stop Pompeii's eruption, but he again refuses, telling her that the eruption is a fixed point in history which cannot be stopped or avoided. When Donna asks him how he knows this, the Doctor cites his Time Lord ability to see the past, present and all possible futures of the universe at once (something he classes as a "burden"). Dextrus and the cult of Vulcan take the circuit boards to the mountain and he summons forth the adult Pyrovile to hunt Donna and the Doctor down. Dextrus, Donna and the Doctor reach the centre of the mountain, and Dextrus informs him that the Pyroviles intend not to launch a rocket back home via the eruption (their home planet of Pyrovillia having been "taken"), but to remain on and conquer Earth.
The Doctor and Donna then lock themselves in part of the Pyrovillian ship they have found, where they find the Pyrovile are using Vesvuius's power to set up a fusion matrix to convert millions of humans into Pyroviles. The matrix will bleed off so much of Vesuvius' pent-up energy that there won't be enough to trigger the eruption--which is why the soothsayers have been unable to see it. The Doctor can switch off the Pyrovillian circuitry and thus save the world from conquest, but in so doing he will cause the eruption and the deaths of himself, Donna and 24,000 people. They choose the latter as the lesser of two evils. Vesuvius erupts, and people in Pompeii watch in terror as ash falls upon them. Meanwhile, the Pyrovillian escape pod harboring the Doctor and Donna is launched into the sky and lands some distance away, between Vesuvius and Pompeii. The two friends run for the safety of the TARDIS.
The Doctor ignores the Caecilius family's plea for help and de-materialises the TARDIS with himself and Donna on board but Donna confronts him and urges him to go back and save the city. The Doctor refuses, saying if he could go back, he would, just as he would go back and prevent the destruction of Gallifrey if he could. Donna tearfully pleads with him, if not the city, then just save one family. The Doctor relents, and materialises the TARDIS inside the Caecilus home, to the astonished delight of the family, who are huddled in a corner awaiting death.
The Doctor, Donna, and the Caecilius family watch the eruption from the surrounding hills - the Doctor explains why Evelina's visions (caused by a rift in time, akin to the Cardiff Rift, as a result of the explosion) have now stopped and promises that Caecilius and Pompeii will be remembered. Caecilius, awed by the fury of Vesuvius, coins the word volcano. The Doctor and Donna leave, with him acknowledging that she was right in that "sometimes I need someone" to stop and humanise him.
Six months later--in early A.D. 80--the Caecilius family has resettled in Rome. Caecilius has re-established his business; Evelina is a healthy and happy teenager once again (and dating, to her father's consternation); Quintus has given up his dissolute ways to train as a doctor; and Donna and the Doctor are worshipped as the family's household gods, with the TARDIS as their temple.
News
VISIT A REAL ROMAN TRASH DUMP
Published: 10/19/2007
Mount Testaccio in Rome
What do you do with millions of large round pottery jugs that can't be recycled? If you're an ancient Roman olive oil importing and distributing cartel, you just keep piling them up, throwing on a bit of lime now and then to keep down the smell, until you have Mount Testaccio -- the hill of broken pots. The hill gives its name to the neighborhood between the Tiber River and Porta S. Paulo just inside the southern part of the Aurelian Walls of Rome.
Antony and Cleopatra, one of history's most romantic couples, were not the great beauties that Hollywood would have us believe, academics have said.
A study of a 2,000-year-old silver coin found the Egyptian queen, famously portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, had a pointed chin, thin lips and sharp nose.
Her Roman lover, played by Richard Burton, had bulging eyes, thick neck and a hook nose.
The tiny coin was studied by experts at Newcastle University.
The size of a modern 5p piece (18mm or 0.7in), the artefact from 32BC was in a collection belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, which is being researched in preparation for the opening of a new Great North Museum.
The image of Cleopatra as a beautiful seductress is a more recent image
Lindsay Allason-Jones, Newcastle University
Clare Pickersgill, the university's assistant director of archaeological museums, said: "The popular image we have of Cleopatra is that of a beautiful queen who was adored by Roman politicians and generals.
"Recent research would seem to disagree with this portrayal, however."
The university's director of archaeological museums, Lindsay Allason-Jones, said: "The image on the coin is far from being that of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
"Roman writers tell us that Cleopatra was intelligent and charismatic, and that she had a seductive voice but, tellingly, they do not mention her beauty.
"The image of Cleopatra as a beautiful seductress is a more recent image."
The silver denarius coin would have been issued by the mint of Mark Antony.
On one side is the head of Mark Antony, bearing the caption "Antoni Armenia devicta" meaning "For Antony, Armenia having been vanquished".
Cleopatra appears on the reverse of the coin with the inscription "Cleopatra Reginae regum filiorumque regum", meaning "For Cleopatra, Queen of kings and of the children of kings".
The university hopes more forgotten treasures will come to light before the Great North Museum opens in 2009.
The Roman coin is on display in Newcastle University's Shefton Museum from 14 February.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/6357311.stm
Burned alive! Pompeii mice - volcano vs mouse
A funny YouTube "faux documentary" on the mice of Pompeii featuring bronze casts made by the New Mexico artist Steve Worthington:
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For fans of Caecilius, a banker in ancient Pompeii.
On this site, you will find a variety of merchandise related to that ancient banker of Pompeii, Lucius Caecilius Iucundus.
Google Maps Pompeii
You can now visit the Pompeii ruins via Google maps "street view". The link takes you to an overhead view. Click on the "B" and then click on "street view". You can zoom in or out and look around using your mouse movements. To walk down the streets click on ovals further up the road or on the arrowheads. http://maps.google.com/maps...
