Filius Bethi, Convivium, et Nugae

Salvete omnes! We apologize for not having a post up yesterday, we got home very late after an eventful day. Yesterday was a pretty normal day until post cenam, from which we departed from the campus and headed for Agecroft Hall. We were fortunate as we got to see the opening performance of Macbeth! We all thoroughly enjoyed the show, and we were able to observe techniques that gave us ideas for our own performance. 

Today, we had our usual classes in which we learned about the artwork of the Domus Aurea, read about more details on Atreus's evil plans, and learned the basic lingo that is used in a marketplace setting. After lunch, we had a wonderful guest speaker, Dr. Erika Damer. Dr. Damer spoke about Roman graffiti and how it is discovered, translated, and how it can be easily accessible to many. In fact, if you would like to check this out, you can go to ancientgraffiti.org . All of us were captivated by Dr. Damer's great lecture. After this, we split up and did play practice and Memoranda. Everything went well, and the actors/actresses did a great job being off-book for the first time!

Later in the evening, we all gathered in our provinces to prepare for convivium. We made centerpieces, nametags, came up with skits to perform while everyone ate, and finally dressed up in our best Roman attire. The dinner party was fantastic, we all sat in our provinces and dined while other provinces performed their creative skits to everyone. A fun time was had by all, and more was to be had a bit later during nugae! 

During our second nugae, we played charades, a game called mafia, and played duck-duck-goose. We all had a blast, and then prepared for epistulae, which we didn't get to have last night since we got back so late. We ended the day delighted to hear from our loved ones and we cannot wait to sleep in tomorrow morning!

- Britney and Caroline