Rock the Romanpunk and Matrons of Awesome
October 9th, 2011 at 23:51It occurs to me belatedly that I should do a summary post with links for those who didn’t get a chance to catch up on my crazy Rock the Romanpunk week while I was putting out several essay-length posts every day!
Here they are, then.
Matrons of Awesome: 50 Women of Ancient Rome
Introduction
Part I – The Raptae
Part II – Republican Mothers
Part III – Republican Vixens
Part IV – Good and Evil at the End of the Republic
Part V – Romana Princeps
Part VI: Imperial Daughters and Many Small Islands
Part VII: Sex, Scandal and Bloodshed
Part VIII – Agrippina
Part IX – Forgotten Daughters, Brigitte Bardot, and Claudian Goddesses
Part X – Flavian Ladies
Part XI – Trajan’s Matrons
Part XII – Good Wives and the Gladiators
Part XIII – Between the Dynasties
Part XIV – A Surfeit of Julias
Part XV – Saint Helena
and while we’re at it, some silly ones:
Rocking the Romanpunk, one fanvid at a time.
Kermit Tours the Romanpunk
Mark Antony Strips the Romanpunk
Cleopatra Sings the Romanpunk
Brutus and Cassius Slash the Romanpunk
Bad Emperors Dance the Romanpunk
Supersizers Eat the Romanpunk
and don’t forget all this was an excuse for me to talk about my book, Love and Romanpunk…
Love and Romanpunk is an e-book now!
Sneak peeks at the stories in Love and Romanpunk
In closing I’d like to give a shout out to Doctor Who, which managed in its season finale to totally out-romanpunk me, even more than last year. And last year gave me Roman autons, the Last Centurion and River Song as Cleopatra! (Two years before that it was Donna speaking Latin, Vesuvius and Karen Gillan as a soothsayer) Hard to beat Winston Churchill as Caesar on a mammoth, though.
Sigh. If only they could have afforded a mammoth.
Tags: linkage, love and romanpunk, matrons of awesome, rock the romanpunk
October 10th, 2011 at 12:00 am
Ah, but wasn’t he a Holy Roman Emperor (albeit with Roman trappings) rather than a Ceasar?
October 10th, 2011 at 12:02 am
They gave him the title Caesar! It became a title, one of said Roman Emperor trappings, rather than a family name. I loved it because of course, if all time is mixed up, Churchill would totally be a Caesar!
October 11th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
It was a pity about the mammoth but the rest was pretty damn cool – and I did enjoy the Roman matrons series.