S.P.Q.R. IV | Roma Victa!!

More Snaps from the games and to quote Cassius from the film Gladiator:
" Ferocious mercenaires and warriors from all brute nations, bent on merciless destruction, conquest. Your emperor is pleased to give you the barbarian horde! "
Sorry...couldn't resist. :D

S.P.Q.R. III | He will bring them death, and they will love him for it.

The cruel emperor Domitian presides over the ensanguined pageantry that plays itself out upon the sands of the Colosseum. He is not, it seems, in a giving vein this day.

The mob that is Rome concurs.

And yet another gladiator meets his Fate upon the blood soaked sands of the Coliseum.

Yet Domition's prurient tastes are not yet sated as he awaits greedily for more.

S.P.Q.R. II | On this day, we reach back to hallowed antiquity...

Here's some more images from the re-enactor exhibit about Ancient Rome I attend this past week-end.  More will follow soon. Enjoy!

S.P.Q.R. I | Are You Not Entertained?!

Step back nearly two millennia with me to another place. This past sunny week-end, I visited an event hosted by the Museum of London at Guildhall Yard. It was an exhibit featuring Imperial Roman era  re-enactors engaged in gladiatorial combat. The following is only a taste of more stuff I'll be posting as the week goes by. From them, you'll get an intimation of the dream that was Rome or perhaps--some would say--nightmare. Enjoy these first fruits...mores's on the way. Oh and Roma Victa. ;)

Stonehenge | Avebury

Here's the photos of both the Stonehenge & Avebury sites...very cool places...nice bunch o' rocks.

I must say I really love the next two...

And lastly...my buddy Josh's a nice guy but one hell of a camera hog. :D
He can't resist gettin' his big ol' head into one o' my shots!!
Here's the bucolic and ancient setting with and without my crazy @$$ bro's head.  ;)