flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: February 2015
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Caroline and fans at the Petrie 18 Feb 2015. I have just returned from the fabulous Petrie Museum. From our modern perspective). So here is my ROMAN EGYPT QUIZ, along with the answers (right at the bottom). Bona fortuna! 2 The mouth of the Nile resembled. A the Latin capital letter V.
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Saturnalia Quiz!
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2014/12/saturnalia-quiz.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Saturnalia storyteller at Fishbourne Roman Palace 2014. Would it surprise you to learn that many of the customs we observe at Christmas go back to Roman times and have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus? B) Mithras, the Persian god of light. A) late December, of course! D) memoriz...
the-history-girls.blogspot.com
The History Girls: Numinous by Caroline Lawrence
http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/08/numinous-by-caroline-lawrence.html
Sunday, 9 August 2015. Numinous by Caroline Lawrence. Adj) having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity. Eg “the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark”. Sunset at Lake Tahoe, California. I am fascinated by the numinous, that is to say by places or incidents where people have had a positive experience of something spiritual or supernatural without looking for it. Sacre Coeur at Night. Where Mary the mother of Jesus was supposed to have spe...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Roman Poo & Pee
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2010/11/roman-poo-pee.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Sunday, November 28, 2010. Roman Poo and Pee. WARNING: this blog entry contains excerpts from a talk I gave at the British Museum called "Ancient Romans and their Poo". It will make you go "Ewww! From the 1953 film Julius Caesar. What could be more sanitary than a soft sea-sponge on a stick? When Vespasian was em...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Your Hero's Journeys
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2015/06/your-heros-journeys.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Tuesday, June 30, 2015. This is the talk I gave at Speech Day for the prize giving ceremony at Princess Helena College on Saturday 27 June 2015. Because I wrote the speech as notes on index cards, it is not verbatim.]. My writer friend Robert Muchamore said:. 1 Hero’s Ordinary World. For Katniss, it is the moment...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: The Minions' Journey
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-minions-journey.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Thursday, July 09, 2015. Yesterday at Seaton House School I gave a short version of my Hero’s Journeys. Speech to 11-year-old girls and their families. As I spoke, I wondered if the steps of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. Template applied to Minions. Here’s how you could do it:. 1 The Hero’s World. There are several...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: September 2014
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Monday, September 29, 2014. Photo by David Emery (see comments below! When we visited Ephesus a few years ago, the stallholders had made a fine art of self-deprecatingly hawking their wares. One of their cheerful shouts as tourists passed was "Real Fake Antiques! Or "Genuine Fake Watches! I took them to. 8211; go...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: December 2014
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Saturnalia storyteller at Fishbourne Roman Palace 2014. Would it surprise you to learn that many of the customs we observe at Christmas go back to Roman times and have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus? B) Mithras, the Persian god of light. A) late December, of course! D) memoriz...
flavias.blogspot.com
Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Ugly Cleopatra
http://flavias.blogspot.com/2011/09/ugly-cleopatra.html
Roman Mysteries and Western Mysteries. Facts, research, news and topics linked to the historical novels for kids by Caroline Lawrence: The Roman Mysteries, The P.K. Pinkerton Mysteries and more! Saturday, September 03, 2011. Liz Taylor as Cleo. Author of the Roman Mysteries. Contrary to what we would love to believe, Cleopatra VII (i.e. the famous one) was probably not. A stunning beauty like Elizabeth Taylor. But even if Egyptian Nefertiti was. That beautiful, remember Cleopatra was not Egyptian. A 20th...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT