Week Four – Your Questions Answered
Render of interior of Terraza di Traiano (Grant Cox, ArtasMedia and Portus Project)
Here is the video addressing some of the questions from Week Four.
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Week Three – Your Questions Answered
Plaster cast of the Torlonia Relief (Flickr)
We have now uploaded the video addressing some of the questions raised about Week Three. As ever, we will continue to answer questions raised on the platform.
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Week Two – Your Questions Answered
Trajan Forum Rome (Flickr)
Here is the video addressing some of the questions you have raised about Week Two.
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Week One – Your Questions Answered
Fossa Traiana (on Flickr)
As part of Week Six we are today concentrating on answering questions raised on Week One. As a starting point Simon and I have created a video.
We have also added a video by Katherine where she introduces her research at Ostia and how it relates to Portus.
We have also added some additional cross-references to Hadrian’s Wall course both on the platform and on the blog for those of you who are registered on both.
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The Van Dyke Vanishments
Last weekend I went to Games Expo, East Kent, or GEEK as it’s more commonly known, in “London’s Famous Margate”. What drew me there was The Van Dyke Vanishments. Billed as an immersive experience through “art, theatre and gaming” how could I not go? With limited availability we snapped up the last tickets for Saturday and drove across to Margate after lunch.
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Hadrian’s Wall Cross References
Hadrian’s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier
On the last run of the course we cross-referenced it to the Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets course and also to the Roman Architecture course. This time we have provided some suggested links between the Portus and Hadrian’s Wall courses.
We will update this page as we create additional cross-references.
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Sensing Portus
Inside the Castellum Aquae – a dark, damp, musty, resonant and chilly place
I have become fascinated with the ways in which we all imagine the site of Portus today and as it was in the past.
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Versu
A couple of weeks back, I read about “the rise of emotional agents” in the Guardian. One of the games mentioned was Blood and Laurels, a work of interactive fiction (or if you like) a text-based adventure set in ancient Rome. Which seems appropriate as the Portus Project MOOC is running again
I’ve played it through a couple of times now.
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Summary of week four in Italian
It has been a busy journey from looking at the whole Roman Empire in the Claudian period to thinking last week about the later second century hinterland of Portus. Eleonora has posted a summary of the topics in Italian on the Italian version of this blog. As ever you can contact her via twitter or posting comments on the blog.
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The talk I gave for York Heritage Research Seminars #YOHRS
I had a great time in York on Tuesday evenings. It was a lovely audience with plenty of comments and questions afterwards. And it was international with people watching from the States (and maybe elsewhere) via Google Hangouts. And then afterwards on to the pub, where the conversation continued with the likes of Nigel Walter, Don Henson (member of the National Trust’s learning panel) and gamingarcheo herself Tara Copplestone, over delicious pints of Thwaits Nutty Black.
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