What could a 7 or 8 year old do?

[Marcus Mummius]

One thing I often thought would be interesting to develop would be to demonstrate the Roman schooling system.

So in the weekends they can pretend they are still at school, sounds like any kid's dream :lol: :lol:

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Trust a batavian to think that would be cool! :roll:
But you do have a point! (not the one you trained to impale my feet) :wink:

[FAVENTIANVS]

We want to use our children as water boys and water girls, all accuratelly dressed of course.

[Maximio]

One thing I often thought would be interesting to develop would be to demonstrate the Roman schooling system.

So in the weekends they can pretend they are still at school, sounds like any kid's dream :lol: :lol:

Marcus you'd be surprised. I live near to a Living History museum in the Midlands dedicated to the 19th and very early 20th C. They have rebuilt brick for brick many of the buildings of the area (known as the Black Country). One of its star attractions is an early 20th C school where they invite children and adults to sit through a typical school lesson. The sessions are absolutely packed out. Bizzarely many of the kids look like the type who would hate modern schools (and I suspect modern teachers would hate to teach them). The highlight of the lesson is watching someone get "caned" for misbehaving.

I'm thinking about trying to get a weekend job there to work in the brass casting foundry. Trouble is I'd have to learn how to speak like a real Yammer 8)

If you don't know what that means - a Black Country accent makes a Scouser sound intelligent :twisted: eh Tarbi?

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

What's a water boy? El chico del vater? Cuñaaaaaaoooo...

[tlclark]

If you have an aristocratic impression you COULD put your kid in armor. There are plenty of references to child sized armor and accessories for children of the imperial family and many images of children in musculata and other armor. These would have been play armor, but still, fun to see.

If you do bring your kid, make sure they are protected from evil though, make them a bulla!

[FAVENTIANVS]

What's a water boy? El chico del vater? Cuñaaaaaaoooo...

El aguador! Pendejooooo!

[jc02005]

I think that when a 7 or 8 year old would do is being slaves to earn more money for there family but for the rich they would stay in there house being served by there slavesand being educated

[Robert Vermaat]

I think that when a 7 or 8 year old would do is being slaves to earn more money for there family but for the rich they would stay in there house being served by there slavesand being educated

So what about the millions of children who were not slaves of belonged to rich families? :wink:

[Titus Petronicus Graccus]

I think that when a 7 or 8 year old would do is being slaves to earn more money for there family but for the rich they would stay in there house being served by there slavesand being educated

So what about the millions of children who were not slaves of belonged to rich families? :wink:

Beat me to it!
:lol:

[Mark Headlee]

Johnathan,

Please...please....please...for your sake and for the other RAT members...please research your comments before posting them. There is a difference between making a educated comment based on fact and research, a social comment for humor or to make small talk, and then one that just does not make any sense!!!

PLEASE!

[Tarbicus]

If you do bring your kid, make sure they are protected from evil though, make them a bulla!

http://www.creativehistory.co.uk/resour ... ritain.htm

[tlclark]

If you do bring your kid, make sure they are protected from evil though, make them a bulla!

http://www.creativehistory.co.uk/resour ... ritain.htm

Y'know I actually participated in a conference as an undergrad about the Etruscans. The Bulla is also an etruscan practice.

Well the Keynote speaker had actually reconstructed the contents of the Bulla.

It included, or could include (it varied) various herbs thought to ward off the evil eye, but the most fascinating amuletic object was actual lizard eyes!!

Here's the reference from Bryn Mawr's (now defunct) classical review:

John F. Hall, Etruscan Italy. Etruscan Influences on the Civilizations of Italy from Antiquity to the Modern Era. Seth and Maurine D. Horne Center for the Study of Art, scholarly series.. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Museum of Art, 1996. Pp. xvii, 411, 114 photos (12 color), 2 maps, 58 drawings. ISBN 0-8425-2334-0. $39.95.


Reviewed by Jean Turfa, Bryn Mawr College
Word count: 2067 words

....

R.E.A. Palmer, "Locket Gold, Lizard Green", the opening address, still shows the effects of a highly amusing oral presentation on bullae. It is not a corpus of these "bubble-lockets", but offers interesting literary/Roman sidelights, and consideration of the Lares, evil eye and ethnicity or citizen status in Etruria. The Vatican's bronze votive boy who wears the amulet (p. 16 fig. 1) was dedicated to Tec Sans (Semo Sancus?) at Sanguineto near Cortona (cf. p. 195 fig. 3). I suspect there is a good Master's thesis (at least) on the topic of bullae: they also were worn by animals, even divine ones such as the winged horses of the Tarquinian Ara della Regina.1

Here's the note.

1. For a photo, see M.-F. Briguet "Art," in L. Bonfante, ed., Etruscan Life and Afterlife (Detroit, 1986) p. 168 fig. IV-105. The collection in the Liverpool Museum includes some gold bullae and many variants shaped like tiny vases no bigger than a coffee bean, which were fitted inside the lids with a perfume dabber instead of the lizard eyes.

Also a strange side note, Jean Turfa was a fabulous lady back at my days when I worked as a slide librarian at Bryn Mawr!!

wow. So I was at the conference, and then I was at Bryn Mawr when she wrote the review.

Weird.

[Tarbicus]

Y'know I actually participated in a conference as an undergrad about the Etruscans. The Bulla is also an etruscan practice.

Well the Keynote speaker had actually reconstructed the contents of the Bulla.

It included, .....

Nice one, thanks Travis. Next time I visit the folks I'll pop over the Mersey and take a peek in the museum. Ta.

[A_Volpe]

and defense against cavalry with long spear (the horse was a bully on a bike).

Rusty - that's great! I hope they fared well against the bully and made him think twice about messing with infantry!

And they say teaching our kids violence is a bad thing....or self-defense for that matter!