June 29th, 2018

6/29/2018

Our day started out with a trip to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. We toured the ancient Greek horses exhibit, which included pieces dating back to as far as 2400-2500 BCE. We then split into our provinces for a scavenger hunt throughout the museum, which involved translating Latin questions and composing thoughtful responses about the artworks in Latin. Afterwards, we were able to view the other exhibits containing art from around the world, including Southeast Asia, Africa, India, and the Americas.
After dinner, we crafted jewelry, mosaics, and Intaglio (small engravings traditionally made on precious gems - or in this case, colored Sculpy) in a style native to our provinces. We will sell the products we produced in the Mercatus Traiani (Market of Trajan) in the following weeks.
Tomorrow will be a "Latin day" and we will attempt to cook ancient Roman and Greek recipes. Yummy!

2 Comments

Yujie

6/30/2018 06:50:44 am

Happy Saturday! Have fun cooking and I am really curious to hear what Ancient Greek/Roman food taste like. Thank you for the update.

Elaine

6/30/2018 12:01:48 pm

Sounds like another fun and productive day! Thanks for the updates and I can't wait to hear about the ancient food, too!

Salvete!

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