The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

22/06/2026

'Large Roman bathhouse discovered in the Netherlands' - hope it's got a big cold pool.

NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS—Dutch News reports that a large Roman bathhouse complex has been unearthed in […]

22/06/2026

Cool marble cladding for this nymphaeum at Ostia, Italy

https://www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-Details/id/327

22/06/2026

We are sweltering and thinking about fountains and cold baths. So this week's IMAGO posts will be on that theme.

Please drink plenty of water and keep as cool as you can if you're in the UK's .

This wall-painting of a fountain in a shady grotto is from the Villa of Fannius at Boscoreale, Italy.

https://www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-Details/id/191

22/06/2026

Still time to join in - you can catch up the first lecture through the recording!

https://www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event-Registration/EventId/28

Getting ready for our new online course on 'The Aeneid', which starts 17th June!

Course by Christopher Tanfield. Five weeks: Wednesday 17, 24 June, 1, 8, 15 July, 6pm-7.30pm (UK time) + recordings

06/06/2026

Great speakers today at our colloquium 'Letters and Landscapes' - thank you to outgoing Roman Society president Roy Gibson for talking us through when letters go to and from Rome, or round the Mediterranean region, to Kathryn Tempest on what it means that there's almost no landscapes in Cicero's letters, Ruth Morello on Cicero's travels and anxieties, and James Corke-Webster for connecting letters of refugees in Calais to letters of early Christian martyrs (in a much more nuanced and complex way than a FB post allows).

Thank you to everyone who came for contributing to our conversations about Rome and antiquity.

We'll try to take better pics of our speakers in future -too engrossed in the talks!

04/06/2026

Are you coming to our AGM and Colloquium on Saturday (6 June, 2pm)? Tag us in your social media and we'll try to share it!

A letter by Paterna (or whatever she's called). New blog post about the oldest writing by women in Britain, and why the claim to "the oldest" writing hides the point: letters, inventories, contracts and other documents found at Vindolanda, Carlisle and London show that literacy ran right through Roman society. Both men and women in the social circles that produced officers wives, as well as enslaved men and women were able to read and often write.

https://clairemillington.com/2026/06/03/letter-by-paterna-or-whatever-shes-called-the-oldest-writing-by-a-woman-in-britain

02/06/2026

Call for contributions! Reconnecting Roman Britain 2026 at
Colchester: Friday 13th & Saturday 14th November. See picture for details or email [email protected] for more information. Deadline: Sunday, 6
September 2026.

Image of Colchester's Roman wall by 'Zorba the Geek' CC BY-SA 2.0

01/06/2026

Reminder! Our Colloquium and AGM is this Saturday 6 June. The theme is 'Letters and Landscapes'

AGM (members only): 2pm.

Colloquium (everyone! No booking needed):

2.30: Roy Gibson (Durham): The Contracting and Expanding Mediterranean: Latin Letters from Cicero to Augustine

3.00 Kathryn Tempest (ICS / Leicester): Locating the Landscape in Cicero’s Letters

3.45 Tea

4.15 Ruth Morello (Manchester): Being Nervous in Campania

4.45 James Corke-Webster (KCL): Letters of Refuge: From Ancient Lyons to Modern Calais.

5.30: Reception

At Senate House, Malet Street, London. WC1E 7HU

Image: stevecadman - CC BY-SA 2.0.

22/05/2026

'Roman kiln reconstruction brings ancient craft back to life at Stanwick Lakes '

Roman kiln reconstruction brings ancient craft back to life at Stanwick Lakes

22/05/2026

Classics teachers and students! We've been asked to share news of Ad Vitam, a free student-created Latin magazine designed for middle and high school classrooms. Take a look!