Doug Brewer wrote: >Bob W wrote: >>> Cotty wrote: >>>> >>>> Had the privilege of a quick trip to Rome on Tues/Weds this week to >>>> film amongst the archaeological excavations at the ancient Roman >>>> seaport or Portus. I know Stan the Man is big on antiquity, as are >>>> some others - Gianco! - so thought you might like a look: >>>> >>>> <http://www.seeingeye.tv/pages/portus.html> >>>> >>> You have a very cool job. >>> >>> I like how the Romans called their port Port >> >> It is in a town called Ostia. I don't recall from any Latin books or >> histories it ever being called Portus, so I was very confused when the >> archaeologists described it as Rome's only port - I wondered how they could >> have forgotten about Ostia. A little googling sorted that out. > >I was somewhat confused about that as well, having just done some study >of the insulae in Ostia.
Boning up on Ostia, in other words? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
