Scent of ancient cuisine accompanies memorial for Augustus












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            * Scent of ancient cuisine accompanies memorial for Augustus
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            Fun for both adults and their children – this was the popular archaeology event that took 

            at the archaeological park in Prague-Liboc organised by classical archaeologists from the 
            Arts to mark the two-thousandth anniversary of the death of the Roman Emperor Augustus.
            Starting at ten o’clock, visitors could take part in a memorial for the deceased emperor, 

            the lighting of a funeral pyre and was followed by a review of the legions, including demo
            exercises and gladiatorial games.
            It was a great day out mainly for the children, who could look forward to not only an Anci

            full of tasks and games, as well as a mini gladiators’ school. The smallest could then rid
            – not on its shell, but on the shields of legionaries, closed together in the well-known b

            All visitors could then take a close look at or put on Roman legionaries’ armour or try sh
            manuballista, the Ancient Roman version of the crossbow.
            Visitors could also get closer to the atmosphere of Ancient Rome with organisers in period

            dress in period costume themselves, as well as scenes from everyday life and period cuisin
            also prepared sheets of information about less well-known aspects of life in ancient times
            foremost I have to thank the students of classical archaeology, without whose voluntary an

            assistance activities like this simply wouldn’t be possible,” said co-organiser PhDr. Pave
            their day out in Liboc, some children even wanted to come back to the suburban archaeologi
            organised by Archaia, o. p. s., the company that operates the archaeological park, and the

            look forward to another trip to the past.
            Saturday’s event was preceded on Friday by a colloquium entitled ‘Colloquium Augustum’, wh
            classical archaeologists and historians with an interest in Antiquity together to discuss 

            influence on not only his own period of Ancient Rome, but also his importance to the histo
            now the Czech lands and much later periods of history.