by Aldus Marius on Wed May 23, 2007 1:20 am
Salve, amica Romana, et Salvete omnes!
(Your name has put a tune in my head; it's Loreena McKennitt's "Serenissima", from her Book of Secrets album, a lovely collection if I ever heard one.)
You sound like me in '91, when I came into the Heritage, right after Desert Storm. I was only three years older than you are now, and I, too, had such broad interests that it took something like Ancient Rome to pull them all together!
And now my secret: You can take just about any college course and find some point of relevance to Ancient Rome. I kid you not. The obvious stuff, of course...Western Civ I, World Literature, any Latin that may be available in your neck of the woods. But also Cultural Anthropology; Physical and Cultural Geography; Archaeology (naturally); World Religions; hei, even some of the themes in my English classes transferred over all-but-intact. The human experience really is universal to all times and places; I'm even kicking around ideas for a Roman "Western". So here I am, sitting on a degree in Historical Cultural Anthropology, which basically means I get to run all over the place asking, "Gee, I wonder how the Romans did this?" or "Say, what'd the Romans think about that?"
...Oh, computers? --I think Romans would have been natural database wizards; that just goes with their basic instinctual urge to go out and Organize everything in sight. >({|;-)
...Oh, comics? --I have a pile of Roman comics right here, waiting for me to break off Webmastering long enough to come up for air and write the reviews for them.
So really, I could ask "What Non-Roman Stuff?" Because for me, there isn't any. Then again...my friends have always said I'm hard-core! <g>
Oh...and no one is going to thwap you with an ancient scroll. The worst thing that can happen to anyone here is to be tagged by the Latin Inquisition, and they're awfully nice about it.
Welcome to our Forum and to the Societas Via Romana!
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.