ADventures In EDUtainment creates innovative, interactive & exciting programs making learning about history fun and interesting for students grades 3-12.
"Pick a time, we'll take you there!" Hands-on history leaning through interactions using cultural modules that include activities, traditional learning and role-playing.
04/08/2024
For those of you wondering about the fantastic sestertius of Hadrian in my profile pic, it's this one, now being offered at auction by my firm, Classical Numismatic Group, LLC, in conjunction with Numismatica Ars Classica and Numismatica Genevensis:
Numismatica Ars Classica Zurich, Auction 144 Lot 1064. The Geoffrey Cope Collection of Ancient Greek and Roman Bronzes. The Roman Empir...
11/25/2022
Hansel is bummed the French Bulldog won the National Dog Show Best In Show over the Neopolitan Mastiff. “Don’t like them Frenchies. Can’t trust ‘em. Always talking smack about other dogs.”
07/16/2016
With the support of Adventures In Edutainment, Archaeologist Travis Samonas begins laying the "groundwork" for a 5-week "hands on" program on Archaeology and Early Cultures at the Boys & Girls's Club of the San Fernando Valley. An "excavation field" near the playground at the B&G Club in Pacoima is being "salted" with all kinds of cool artifacts and remnants of past culture, including this realistic replica skeleton of a five-year-old. Under the guidance of Travis and Michael Long, Mentoring and Volunteer Director for the Club, kids will use all the proper techniques of a trained archaeologist to uncover these treasures, and in so doing will learn how scientists learn about ancient cultures from the clues they leave behind. Adventures In Edutainment will use this pilot program as the basis for a program to be offered to Middle Schools in the greater Los Angeles area for the 2016-2017 school year.
05/26/2016
A 2014 event at the Getty Villa already in planning...
05/26/2016
05/14/2016
Hounds of History...most probably an identification tag for a [latifundia] slave...would be a great item for a doting, history-loving pet parent!
A dog's tag from ancient Rome. It states "Hold me if I am lost and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus."
04/22/2016
Nigerian “Queens Of Africa” Dolls To Surpass “Barbie” In Sales By: Krystle Crossman Taofick Okoya was trying to find a doll for his niece a few years ago. He lives in Nigeria and was appalled at the..
04/16/2016
Our third year as presenters at the Los Angeles Police Department POPP Program-Police Orientation and Preparation Program. We present on the history of the police force in Roman Society from its etymological roots in the Greek word polis ('city') and its adaptation as a term to describe the system of "civil administration"-politia to the creation of specific branches of [military] service (Praetorian Guard) and civil organizations (Vigiles) that performed some of the duties that our moderns forces do today. Our goals are:
* To acquaint students with the early history of policing
* To demonstrate how the U.S. police and in a larger perspective, the criminal justice system of the Western world evolved from the English law enforcement experience which itself inherited many of the polymil institutions of its Roman heritage
Our third year as guest presenters at the program-The Police Orientation & Preparation Program-POPP- is a two-year Associate’s Degree program supported by the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and the Los Angeles Community College District & West L.A. College. POPP recruits rising 12th graders and recent high school graduates, aged 17-20, into a fast-paced, career-oriented program for students that aspire to join the ranks of the LAPD. Over the course of the program, students complete all academic requirements to earn California high school diplomas (if needed) and Associate of Arts degrees in Administration of Justice.
We're invited to provide static and interactive displays demonstrate parallels between the strategy, tactics, logistics and materiel of the Imperial Romany army during the Hadrianic era and today's polimil entities. Ourprogram goals are:
* To acquaint students with the early history of policing
* To demonstrate how the U.S. police and in a larger perspective, the criminal justice system of the Western world evolved from the English law enforcement experience which itself inherited many of the polymil institutions of its Roman heritage
04/14/2016
The educational arm of Legion Six Victrix Los Angeles-"ADventures in EDUtainment" made it's debut presentation at a charter school-home school network in beautiful Newport Beach, California...a handful of Romans provided "hands-on-history" to young classicists!
03/08/2016
...HONORING BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FOR 30 MILLENIA...
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2016!
23 images of stone age goddesses or fertility figurines dating from 28,000 to 15,000 BCE
Many of the statues and sculptures shown here have been named 'Venus' statuettes by archeologists, as in Venus of Willendorf and Venus of Laussel; these names based on the well-known n**e depictions of the much later Roman goddess Venus.
The most impressive figurine is probably the second image in the second row: the so-called Lady of Brassempouy dated to 20-15.000 BCE and found in the 'Grotte du Pape' at Brassempouy, presently in southern France. This is one of the earliest known depictions of a human face.
Credits:© 2004 Nikky Oosterbaan; Text quoted and adapted from: © 2013 Eva Sawada
02/26/2016
Legion Six Victrix Centurion David Scott Michaels goes from Centurio (that's a hard Latin 'C') to Catwalk at the Getty Villa-"Roman Figure Drawing"
In this two-part figure drawing workshop, we will take part in the tradition of sketching from antiquity, working both from ancient sculptures in the galleries and by drawing ancient Roman fashions modeled by reenactors from the Legion Six Historical Society in the studio. Drawing exercises will emphasize the depiction of the standing and seated figure,
clothed in drapery and armor.
02/17/2016
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