Making History Come to Life
The Fourteenth Legion is pleased to provide a fun, entertaining, and educational presentation for your school, classroom, youth group, or even social event!
Our visits are designed to enhance your current history curriculum, to study the importance and impact of the Ancient Romans, and to learn about their way of life, and their impact on the people they encountered and conquered. We achieve this by allowing the group to see, touch, smell and wear a wide range of period artifacts--both real and reproduction, and through engaging the individuals in role play, games and demonstrations of various period activities. Our reenactors are not simply entertainers, but well-educated individuals and historians, thoroughly knowledgeable in their field.
"I found out a lot from your visit. My favorite part was when we got to hold and wear your armor. I enjoyed finding out more about the Romans especially because somebody was telling us about them and we didn't have to find out from books..."
A visit from a 'real' Roman soldier is an experience that most children AND adults enjoy immensely and few forget. There are many opportunities for enhancing the curriculum and for promoting follow up work.
A number of our legion members specialize in school talks for children. These normally last half a day and are tailored to the requirements of the individual school. Classes and groups of up to 100 people and all grades from K5 to high school can be catered to, although the smaller the numbers, the more opportunities there individuals have to gain hands-on experience of Roman military and civilian life.
Legion speakers arrive fully attired with museum quality weapons and equipment and in role. Presentations could include discussion of a soldier's life, dress, weapons and equipment; battle tactics, including a battle line of children; civilian life, food, religion and anything else the school requires! Questions are encouraged and time usually set aside at the end to meet the children personally and allow them to try on helmets, etc. under supervision.
Incidentally, we are very attentive to safety issues and the weapons themselves are always handled with the greatest possible care.
If you would like to invite one of our visiting speakers, please either contact us through our site form, or email us and we will be happy to help. We look forward to hearing from you!
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