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[Musivarius]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to put this, so mods feel free to move it if you want.
Some of you may have noted the Samianware and mosaics that I'm selling but we also have a fresco artist, Ria Teunisse producing wallplaster sections and Fayum Portrait copies. Now with other artisans producing work for us we were looking at a banner headline to use at the trading shows which people can come to associate with displays of the very best of Roman arts and crafts.
We want something which signifies the finer art of what was created from the Empire away from the military and gladitorial aspects. I quite like 'Roma Aeterna', Eternal Rome, of something like The Spirit of Rome in it's Latin form.
I need to make a decision in the next week or so but if there is anyone here who has a suggestion I'd love to hear it and if we decide to use one that someone on this Forum suggests by way of thanks we will send them out 2 pieces of Samianware, in a presentation box from the thin walled collection on our website. I'm happy to post this out to anywhere including the States!

Thanks

Lawrence

[Carlton Bach]

Spirit of Rome would be Genius Romae, though technically, Roma is a goddess, so she has no Genius (who'd be male anyway, so hers would be a Iuno). Dea Roma? Genius Romanus (the Roman Genius)? Genius Romanorum (Genius of the Romans)?

I'd think of doing something with the word 'urbs'. It clearly means 'the' city - Rome - and it hads connotations with 'urban', so moderns understand it.

Urbanitas Imperii ('urbanitas' means refined culture, wit and style to Romans, though it's not necessarily entirely a nice thing to say about a person)

Flos Urbanitatis (the flower of 'urbanitas')

is 'Vita Romana' taken? I think I've seen it before

Ars Romana / Ars Imperii tends to generate the wrong modern connotations in Germanic languages. Maybe for use in the US?

Artes Vivendi? (the arts of (proper) living)

Artes Urbanae?


Or you could go with the appropriate deity, which in your case would be Minerva. The 'imperial' minerva frequently found in the cults of the military specialists and artisans is Minerva Augusta, which also gives you the right kind of connotations.

Or: Minervae Sacrum (holy (place) to Minerva)

Cultores Minervae (followers of MInerva)

Do any of these work for you?