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Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - Paulus Flaminius - 09-07-2006
AVETE ROMANI
September 23, 2006 will be opening day for the Imperial Rome exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, GA. LEGIO XI will provide up to 8 legionaries to greet and interact with guests. MARTIVS is coordinating the Gladiator show which some of us will participate in, as usual.
This is the first time these artifacts have been on tour. LEGIO XI will help open the World Tour in Atlanta of items usually displayed in Florence, Italy.
10:00 Opens for the public.
11:30 Gladiator bouts
2:00 Opening events finish, we can stay as long as possible after that...
5:00 Museum closes
Info: http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/speciale ... lrome.html
Directions: http://www.fernbank.edu/museum/direction.html
IMAX Theater is also showing a film about classical Greece: http://www.greecefilm.com/
If you are in town on the 23rd it would be a good chance to check out the legion and a fantastic museum. I know my son will be more interested all the dinosaurs and other fossils besides myself !
SALVETE
PAVLVS FLAMINIVS
LEGIO XI CLAVDIA PIA FIDELIS
http://communities.msn.com/LEGIOXI
Imperial Rome Museum Opening: after action report - Paulus Flaminius - 09-24-2006
AVETE ROMANI
Greetings from LEGIO XI CLAVDIA PIA FIDELIS in Atlanta, Georgia. I hope this letter finds your troops hale and hearty.
We just completed duty at the opening of the Imperial Rome Exhibit at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. What a blast.
I was impressed by the artifacts in the display. Many I was well familiar with from Peter Connolly books etc. Comrades in Texas will be most pleased when it arrives in Houston. Great recruiting opportunity. I met more than 5 Latin teachers a few history teachers, several homeschool groups, plus another handful of brawny raw recruits.
One hint: I've found that just handing out my Roman Reenactor card is not enough. Folks take it and lose it. So now I make it a point, when they ask for more info, to hand them the card then ask for their name, number and email address so I can capture their info, and be able to follow up.
Now I have a bunch of contacts for school & church presentation plus new recruits that I can periodically prompt to think about bring ROMA to life in their life and classrooms.
SALVE
PAVLVS FLAMINIVS
LEGIO XI CLAVDIA PIA FIDELIS
http://groups.msn.com/LEGIOXI
Georgia, USA
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. Demetrius - 09-24-2006
Quote:I've found that just handing out my Roman Reenactor card is not enough. Folks take it and lose it. So now I make it a point, when they ask for more info, to hand them the card then ask for their name, number and email address so I can capture their info, and be able to follow up.
That's excellent advice! Maybe like a sign up sheet? Sometimes I've found out that handing out flyers, etc is a good thing, though, and I'll keep on doing it, but one person I met later said they'd wanted to call back, but had lost the flyer...so you're right. Now just don't lose the list, heh, and you'll be ok.
Good job! Looking forward to seeing the exhibit in Houston in Feb. We're doing pretty much the same sorts of things, Legion military exhibit, Celt military exhibit, Roman and Celt civilian exhibit, and gladiator fights, with the possibility of some needled felt Roman v. Celt fighting, too. Hard to know until we have all the bodies in the room what we can do.
Feb 24, 2007 anybody in or coming to the Central Texas or Houston area who's interested in attending/participating please log on to http://www.theromanway.org/about.htm and send a contact note to that effect; somebody will be back with you with info. All Romans, Celts, and gladiators welcomed! Hope to meet some of you there!
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - jbd_29349 - 09-24-2006
This was a very nice exhibit! It was very nice to see some of the items that most of us have only seen in booksor TV. It was kind of small but had alot of nice items. They had coins, pottery, statues big and small, jewerly, and surgical tools.
We even had gladitorial bouts! There were four of them:
Myrmillo vs. Thrax victor Myrmillo
Myrmillo vs. Hoplamocus Victor Hoplamocus
Secutor vs. Retiarius Victor Retiarius
1 Essedari vs. 2 Essedari Victor 2 Essedari
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. Demetrius - 09-24-2006
How did you outfit your Essedari? Originally, according to Gladiators and Caesars they were Celt chariot fighters. Now I know you don't have three Celt chariots, of course, but how did you make it work? Always interested in new ideas and equipment?
It's not surprising that the two of them beat the one, though. :lol: Be sure to bring this info, and any photos to the gladiator group, plz.
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - jbd_29349 - 09-24-2006
Sorry should have made that more clear. It was Essederi #1 vs. Essederi #2, and not one Essederi vs. two Essederi.
SORRY! :?
Exhibit - Paulus Flaminius - 09-24-2006
Gargantua from Galilee, as I witnessed, took too many blows to the head during the gladiator bouts to be relied on regarding the immensity of the display. I was wowed by the quality and QUANTITY of items displayed. The thing went on and on. It was reported that Gargantua took a wrong turn at the VOMITORIA and ended up in the Dinosaur Room with his own kind thus missing several halls of treasure.
Get some rest ol' pal.
PAVLVS FLAMINIVS
LEGIO XI CLAVDIA PIA FIDELIS
http://groups.msn.com/LEGIOXI
Georgia, USA
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. Demetrius - 09-24-2006
Ok, ok, but HOW did you make the Essedari look? What kind of weapons, shields, greaves, that sort of thing. I'm curious, is all...it's not a trick question.
Help a brother out, ok?
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - jbd_29349 - 09-24-2006
Don't get me wrong the exhibit very impressive and I walked away mistified, I just expected it to be bigger.
Besides the surgeon side I was fine that na na na na nothing was p p p p permanent.
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER - 09-26-2006
Very nice exhibition. Legio XI guys looked quite sharp, and the gladiators put up a great show. The decisions though about life or death were made to the contrary to what I was screaming. Well, nevermind. :wink: [/list]
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - Lepidina - 09-28-2006
Way cool exhibit!! For some odd reason, I thought the Atlanta exhibit was opening in January. Oh well.
So are there now 3 Roman exhibits touring around? The ones I know about are:
- The big Pompeii exhibit that started out in Ottawa and is now in Japan
- The Mobile, Alabama exhibit opening in January
- The Atlanta exhibit which just opened.
There is also in "In Stabiano" exhibit which was at the Smithsonian that I've seen around at other places.
Lastly, do you have contact info for the gladiators? I'd like to tell them to get their butts up to Roman Days. They came a few years ago but I haven't seen them since.
Thanks!
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER - 09-28-2006
The "In Stabiano" exhibit is now also in Atlanta - in the Carlos Museum, Emory University, until October 22nd.
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - Gaivs Antonivs Satvrninvs - 09-28-2006
Salve,Lepidina.
One of the gladiators is Joshua,the Gargantuan from Galilee above
or you can PM me and I will get you in touch with them.
Re: Imperial Rome Exhibit Opens World Tour in Atlanta - M. Demetrius - 09-28-2006
Quote:So are there now 3 Roman exhibits touring around? The ones I know about are:Unless I've missed something, the Pompeii event is the same one coming to Mobile in Jan/Feb, and the Atlanta exhibit "Imperial Rome" is coming to Houston, TX in late Feb.
- The big Pompeii exhibit that started out in Ottawa and is now in Japan
- The Mobile, Alabama exhibit opening in January
- The Atlanta exhibit which just opened.
Many of us from all around (as everybody knows by now) are planning to attend the Mobile event first weekend in Feb 07 as Romans, gladiators and Celts, and some of us from further West are planning to make the Houston event on Feb 24 07 in the same way.
Anyone interested in the Mobile event should contact Rusty Meyers [email protected] ; those interested in attending at Houston should contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more info, etc.
Imperial Rome Photos - Paulus Flaminius - 09-29-2006
A few photos are posted of the event on our website. Click below.