Roman Mosaics in Tunisia

As promised here are some more photos of the restored Roman Villa and the mosaics there.

Roman Mosaics and Amphitheatre -Tunisia

Alright, So it just occurred to me that I have photos of some of the best preserved Roman mosaics found in El Jem, Tunisia. So over the coming weeks I shall share some of them with you... In addition these I have photos of the Amphitheatre built around 238 and thought to be used for gladiator fights and chariot races. It is also the third larges amphitheatre; only the Colosseum in Rome and that of Capua, Italy are larger.

Especially since the "Arab Uprisings", and Tunisian Resistance. Fewer people will have access to them. They are found away from the main Colosseum, quite a walk away, but if you ever get the chance, this restored Roman house and the mosaics found inside are pretty amazing.

Here are some Taster photos:

Interactive Grammar Tables

Everyone loves grammar, whether its in English, French, German, Italian (you get the gist of this ) etc,and especially Latin, grammar can make our lives hell.

So its always great when someone can come up with interactive grammar tables that can test your knowledge and help you to improve your grammar.

They are self-checking exercises that test your knowledge of all the cases of Latin nouns, adjectives and pronouns. Spend some time with our interactive Grammar tables, and you'll learn your grammar so well that you'll never need to come back

Interactive Grammar Tables

Some More Translation Practice...

To get better at translating or to start studying a text try the first few paragraphs of Horace the Satires (Book 1) below:

gressum magna me accepit Aricia Roma
hospition modico: rhetor comes Heliodorus,
Graecorum longe doctissimus; inde Forum Appi,
differtum nautis, cauponibus atque malignis.

hoc iter ignavi divisimus, altius ac nos (5)
praecinctis unum: minus est gravis Appia tardis.
Hic ego propter aquam, quod erat deterrima, ventri
indico bellum, cenantis haud animo aequo
exspectans comites. iam nox inducere terris

umbras et caelo diffundere signa parabat. (10)
tum pueri nautis, pueris convicia nautae
ingerere. “huc apelle!” “trecentos inseris: ohe
iam satis est!” dum aes exigitur, dum mula ligatur,
tota abit hora. mali culices ranaeque palustres

Powerpoints, Audio files and more...

If you want to try different ways of learning Latin, or are looking for some more resources, try this website out. Created for high school students, it has a variety of different levels:
The Main Site: Latin at Grady High School
Latin I
Latin II
Latin III

Worksheet- Myths

For something different this week, I am providing you with a worksheet about Latin/Roman myths which you can try to solve.
Worksheet 1 Myths in general

Video

Today's post is a short video/animation looking around a Roman house

Roman Empire

To build on your background here are some websites and videos you could look at.
BBC - Romans
Roman Empire
The BBC have also had a series called What The Romans did for Us. The 5th Episode will be shown on BBC four on Monday at 19.30 GMT for those of you in England.