_________ LUDI VICTORIAE SULLANAE________________
AVETE CIVES ROMANI !
Your attention, please !!!
The Ludi Victoriae Sullanae are going to start,
and we
want to celebrate them in the best way.
I'm going to briefly explain the expected activities:
-Certamen Historicum: every day a hard historical
question, a classification and the best, well-known historian among
us will be proclamed the last day of Ludi Victoriae Sullanae.
Send your answers only at:
cnaeus_cornelius@yahoo.com
-Munera Gladiatoria: A gladiator and a tactic. Send a mail to
pjtuloup@yahoo.fr
-Ludi Circenses: many drivers facing eachother, assassinations,
sabotage and glory for the faster, and the best Factio!
To subscribe: qsalixcant@yahoo.es
-Cultural Award: a literary contest about the Roman Victory
Send your works at: iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com
-The Q. Caecilius Metellus Coin Auction: a news.
WE have a coin! And YOU just might end up owning
it! YES YOU!!!
SERIOUSLY QUIRITES............
For every $9.75 donation in U.S. dollars 'or' for every 8,00 Euro donation to
the Magna Mater Fund you make from now until Nov. 2 noon
Roma time....YOU will gain an opportunity to own this silver denarus...a
confirmed mint of Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus...Consul Roma 109 BCE.
AND...........what better way to celebrate the upcoming Ludi Victoriae Sullae
Novae Romae, help the Magna Mater Project financially, and also honour a
benefactor of the Magna Mater from antiqua? Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus did
indeed restore the Temple of Magna Mater after a fire destroyed this sacred
place of Rome around 110 BCE.
Details of the coin:
Purchased from Angloantiquities co. U.K.
Certificate of Authenticity with coin
www.angloantiquities.com
Particulars: estimated age 130 BCE
Roman Silver Denaris
weight: 3.8 gm
size 18 mm
Graded F. Most of the markings are still quite sharp. The coin has lost some of
its symmetry and has some of the outer edge markings
missing. Well, it is old, what can we say?....But for the most part
distinguishable. It is genuine. There is more than one of these, though. Here is
a URL
from a collector (not the vendor) describing the features of this coin in
detail. The coin is easily identified from this picture, feature for feature,
but it presents as sharper 'in hand' than the image on line:
http://www.romanrepublicancoins.com/Q_Caecilius_Metellus.html
HOW TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE MAGNA MATER FUND
The Paypal feature has always been available, (the same way many of us pay
taxes) and this is the preferred way to go, as this campaign
will run only until Nov. 2 1200 Roman Time. Visit the main Nova Roma website :
www.novaroma.org and you will see a
Graphic inviting donations. Its about two third way down, is purple in colour.
And it says, Dono Dare/Give to Nova Roma via Paypal. Click on this graphic,
follow the prompts for info on how to use Paypal to transfer funds from yourself
to us.
****Be SURE to stipulate "Magna Mater Fund" with your donations please, so that
we (and the Quaestors) know specifically what the
money is for, and you will be credited by us and gain a chance to own the coin
above****
If you are extra generous and wish to donate twice the amount above, well then
you will get two chances to own this coin, Three times the
amount, three chances. Sixty Six times the amount, and Sixty Six chances:)
CUSTODE OF SELECTION OF WINNER
The Honorable Lucia Modia Lupa, Vestal et Sacerdos Diana has graciously offered
her services. Ave Modia! We will request a list of names of those who donated to
this worthy cause. (If you have donated 66 times the amount, yes, your name will
appear on the list
66 times) The entered names on this list will be witnessed and numbered randomly
by myself, Lucius Iulius Sulla Curule Aedile or
his designate, and Pontifex Nova Roma Q. Caecilius Metellus Postumianus Pius.
Ave Pontifex! The Honored Sacerdos, without being privy to this list of course,
shall, upon request of the Curule Aedile or his designate, select a number
between one and the total number of those donating
to determine the owner of this coin.
PLEASE NOTE!!!!
There are no losers in this contest. Unfortunately, only one person can own the
coin, but one cannot lose giving a small amount of
funding to such a worthy cause as the valorization of the rich culture, religion
and archeological legacies of the Magna Mater.
This campaign is enacted by Imperium of Lucius Iulius Sulla Curulus
Aedilis in the Consulship of F. Apulus Caesar and G. Popillius
Laenus 2758 A.U.C.
Questions regarding this campaign are welcomed. Please write :
pompeia_minucia_tiberia@yahoo.com
To see, to ask, to play, just visit our website !
_________ LUDI MEGALENSES_________________________
AVETE CIVES ROMANI !
Your attention, please !!!
The Ludi in honour of our Magna Mater are going to start,
and we
want to celebrate them in the best way.
I'm going to briefly explain the expected activities:
-Ludi Scaenici: it will be proposed in our theatre the palliated
comedy "Andria" by Publius Terentius Afer, as translated by Henry
Thomas Riley. This was the first play of the african playwright, and
his first great success in Rome (166 BC).
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus"
-Certamen Historicum: not a news: every day a hard historical
question, a classification and the best, well-known historian among
us will be proclamed the last day of Ludi Megalenses.
Send your answers only at:
cnaeus_cornelius@yahoo.com
-Venationes: an animal, a gladiator and a tactic. To survive.
To subscribe just send a mail to:
iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com
-Munera Gladiatoria: as above, but the blood will be just the
gladiators' one.
iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com
-Ludi Circenses: many drivers facing eachother, assassinations,
sabotage and glory for the faster, and the best Factio!
To subscribe:
qsalixcant@yahoo.es
-Cultural Award: a literary contest about the battle of Trasimenus'
Lake, where Hannibal defeated for the third time the Roman Army.
Send your woks at:
iulius_sabinus@yahoo.com
-Rhetorical Poetry Contest: a news. Here you can discuss
your "favourite Civis" that has or has had any office in Nova Roma,
el