Archaeology of Portus: Exploring the Lost Harbour of Ancient Rome (University of Southhampton) January 26, 2015

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I am definitely signing up for this one. It isn't until 2015 though. So I wouldn't jump out of your socks to get on this one. :D

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/p...

[Mark]

i am looking forward to this one.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

me too. Sounds absolutely fascinating. Hope it is early 2015. Not only because I am looking forward to it, but also because it will kick start me into learning and reading again after the Xmas and New Years' festivities.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I think I got an email the other day to say when this one started. When does it start?

[Mark]

26th january

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Thanks. Will update the title of this thread to reflect that date.

[Andy]

Enjoy folks, Im doing anotehr one at the same time & not gonna make same mistake as last year n do two that overlap..... learnings easy where yer young :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I missed out on doing the Hadrian's Wall course last year. They are going to run it again this year and will catch that one instead of going back now and doing the course alone.

[Mark]

Terri wrote: "I missed out on doing the Hadrian's Wall course last year. They are going to run it again this year and will catch that one instead of going back now and doing the course alone."

They maybe new stuff in that one Terri.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

There is. :)

[Carol]

Starting this one too, as I do not know enough about the Roman Empire. Hope it is good.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Certainly sounds interesting! I have been intrigued since we first saw the course last year.

[M.L.]

I just signed up for the course. So glad this info was posted! Thanks.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Happy to help, M.L. Hope we all get something out of the course. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I keep forgetting to log into Futurelearn and sign up. I may need a reminder closer to the 26th. lol.
Somebody post here a few days before and remind me please..;)

[Mark]

Terri wrote: "I keep forgetting to log into Futurelearn and sign up. I may need a reminder closer to the 26th. lol.
Somebody post here a few days before and remind me please..;)"

Will do, can someone remind me to remind Terri please.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

haha! Oh man. This is not looking good.

[Mark]

Terri wrote: "haha! Oh man. This is not looking good."

Lols

[Carol]

Signed up for the Hamlet one too. Like to keep balanced in the literary world

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

You are getting so cultured with all your learnin', madam. :)

[Carol]

That is the best part of retirement. I can go back and take courses on all the things I had no time for when studying for medical school.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I wonder if I'll ever get a retirement. :) As farmers with no kids, when retirement age happens we would have to sell the farm to retire. lol. So, no retirement ever for me. A semi retirement for hubby though, as he works off farm as well.

My parents are the same. Being farmers who used to also own an off farm business. They 'retired' (sold the business) but as farmers, they'll never retire.
:)

[Carol]

Well, I hope they love what they do. I was a practicing physician for 40 years and really loved the work. Then I felt that both the practice of medicine changed here in the states and I was ready to move on to other things. I don't regret it cause I was successful in that career when women were only beginning to come into their own as career women. I accomplished what I wanted to do and helped pave the way so the women of the next generation had fewer skeptics that it could be done, and done well.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Who has started?
I haven't, but I will any day now. Is it interesting?

[Carol]

Started both that one and the one on hamlet. Both are interesting. The Portus one seems a bit disjointed but only in the first week. Hopefully will get better. Don't want to print up all the various maps so I have to keep flipping back and forth. That is a bit offputting

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Are you very far through week one yet? Have you gotten to the week one test?

[Carol]

Yes aced it

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nice one.

[Carol]

You might like the hamlet course. Goes into a lot of psychology of characters and what an audience in Elizabethan times would think of this kind of play.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Nah, I hate Shakespeare. :) They shouldn't have forced it on me in Highschool.

[Carol]

I am liking it, more for the human themes of jealousy, madness, lust ? Incestual love (hamlet for his mother?) than for the study of shakespere.

[Mark]

Starting this today. Been busy with an interview. First clear day.

[Carol]

Have finished week one of Portus. Pretty good, we'll see how it progresses.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Going to try and find time to start it today.

[Jane]

My copy of the March/April 2015 issue of Archaeology magazine came today.
There's a humongous feature of several pp. on Portus complete with colored pictures: "Rome's imperial port". Anyone interested might want to take a look at it.
I couldn't find a link online to send. Maybe it's too recent?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I couldn't find anything either.
I did find this one from 2011. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/...

[Jane]

Terri wrote: "I couldn't find anything either.
I did find this one from 2011. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/..."

Yes, I found several others also. I'm guessing that in a month or two it will be up online. This mag has as their current issue the one previous.
@Terri and other Vikingophiles: in the same issue of Archaeology there's also another long article on Vikings in Ireland.