http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog Anything teachers of Latin, Greek, Classicsal Civilisation or Ancient History might find useful or interesting. en-us Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:52:45 +0100 Chedworth Blogware arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95033.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95033.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:49:40 +0100 This would be the view that a visitor would have seen, mutatis mutandis, when approaching Chedworth Villa (whatever it was called then) from the Fosse Way (whatever that was called then!).<br> <br> I wonder whether there were more trees then, or fewer.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95085.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95085.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:22:27 +0100 Perhaps the last port of call before leaving the villa will be this latrine. The water from the nymphaeum has ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95086.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95086.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:24:45 +0100 One can make a bit more sense of the archaeology if one has just studied the reconstruction painting.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95057.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95057.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:41:58 +0100 While the guest is bathing and inspecting the villa, those in the kitchen - why are they all pictured as ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95054.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95054.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:33:31 +0100 The opening has been blocked, but this was where a slave would add fuel to keep the heating system going. ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95074.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95074.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:59:36 +0100 The guest is shown into the dining room for the meal. The table is placed above the geometric mosaics, and ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95075.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95075.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:01:42 +0100 Winter wears a birrus Britannicus and carries a bare branch and a hare.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95076.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95076.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:04:12 +0100 Is in a rape or a rescue? Is it Bacchus and Ariadne? What are the panpipes doing?<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95080.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95080.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:10:26 +0100 It's quite an abstract design, but instantly recognisable as panpipes.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95077.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95077.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:06:05 +0100 The pictures are the eye-catchers, but the geometric shapes are well executed too.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95078.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95078.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:08:13 +0100 A lively and attractive bird, with something in front of its beak - I can't decide what. A flower? If ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95052.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95052.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:26:19 +0100 Our guest would not give a thought to how the bath was heated, but within a few inches of him ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95042.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95042.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:10:22 +0100 Our host greets his guest, and almost immediately takes him to the bath house to relax and chat.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95060.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95060.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:47:12 +0100 At the nymphaeum there might be prayers and almost certainly an offering, perhaps of fruit or flowers, as here.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95062.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95062.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:49:51 +0100 The pool still exists, and is still a place of&nbsp; 'religio' in the sense of superstition, because it has many ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95082.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95082.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:15:48 +0100 We've seen it in the artist's imagination; now here is the corridor in real life.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95045.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95045.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:19:14 +0100 At either side of the large bath are two individual plunge baths, just big enough for one person, and hard ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95044.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95044.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:15:06 +0100 For a private bathing establishment, this is quite spacious. There would be room for a dozen bathers in this particular ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95065.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95065.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:55:34 +0100 Before the evening meal, the guest comes to meet the family in a living-room, which, as this picture shows, was ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95053.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95053.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:28:57 +0100 Most often we see brick pillars in hypocausts, and are told that the brick holds the heat well, but here ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95083.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95083.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:19:01 +0100 That kitchen was well stocked not only with pottery but also with foodstuffs.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95058.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95058.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:44:24 +0100 Here is a modern chef surrounded by replica Roman kitchen utensils.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95081.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95081.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:13:58 +0100 Perhaps this woman is bringing refreshment to the guest in his room, after his night in the villa. What is ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95034.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95034.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:56:00 +0100 The visitor would have approached the villa either from the Fosse Way, in which case he or she would have used the path to the left of this picture, or from the White Way on the hill above the villa, the nearest road to Corinium.<br> <br> This picture is displayed at the end of the corridor buildings, with a plaintive reminder that the land in the foreground does not belong to the National Trust and cannot be excavated.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95036.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95036.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:58:39 +0100 Let us imagine that the (real) Roman ploughshare was being used by the (imagined) ploughman in the reconstruction painting.<br> Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95039.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95039.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:02:00 +0100 Our visitor's horse has almost arrived at the villa when it sheds its shoe. Naturally a blacksmith is available within ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95040.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95040.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:06:44 +0100 Our visitor, his horse limping, arrives at the villa gate, and is admitted by a woman with a bunch of ... Chedworth arltblogger http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95055.html http://blog.arlt.co.uk/blog/_archives/2004/6/26/95055.html Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:38:32 +0100 After the leisurely bathing ritual, the host might take his guest on a tour of the villa. One important place ... Chedworth