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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Deva is returning to term-time hours! We'll be open for school visits only from Monday - Friday. We will be open to the public on weekends, Saturday and Sunday 10am - 6pm (last entry 5pm).

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It feels like Back to School ads get earlier every year. But this is one we know you'll be happy to see - ROMAN SOLDIER SCHOOL IS BACK! Weds and Sats throughout the summer! Lots of chances to have some fun before you have to do the real 'back to school' stuff. devaromancentre.co.uk/soldier-scho...

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

FREE TICKETS for our Roman Walking Tours have been released today as a part of @chesterbid.bsky.social Chester BID's Summer in the City Tour Week. Tickets are limited and are available on a first come, first serve basis - so book soon to avoid disappointment! www.chesterbid.co.uk/discover/sum...

Two men, dressed as Roman soldiers, in a garden. They are using wooden staffs to point at a blue sign, which reads Tour Week, Summer in the City, with four little white icons on it: a roman helmet, foot prints, two eyes looking, and a column.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Did somebody say #MosaicMonday? Here's an in-progress shot from the making of our mosaic, created during last year's @heritagechester.bsky.social! It will be unveiled in our Roman garden during this year's festival - and there will also be a chance to make some more on May 28th and June 4th!

A glass tile mosaic with a black and white border and a colourful geometric pattern being laid out on a mesh, it is still in progress.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are OPEN! Our brand new family-friendly adventure is open 10am - 6pm (last admission 5pm) every day of the Easter holidays, including Easter weekend! That's today April 16th and the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st! Come join us on a journey to Roman Chester!

The front of building with a big white sign that says Deva Roman Experience, it's a terracotta colour with false pillars. In front on a ramp is a man dressed as a Roman solider holding a pillow sword and shield looking excited, while another man dressed as a senator poses to look strong and waves a flag.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Acquiring a legion's worth of pillow swords and shields might just be the greatest thing we've ever done! Our brand new family-friendly Roman history adventure is open and we think our staff might be having as much fun as our visitors. It's great to be back!

A young white girl, under five, with curly brown hair tied up with bows, in a dress, holding a pillow sword and shield looking at the camera with a definitely cute but meant to be 'mean' expression. Beside her is an older white man dressed up as a Roman solider gesturing and glaring at the camera menacingly. Behind them in a wooden and old fashioned looking room.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

GRWD (Get Ready With Deva)! Today's edition is a Roman Archer (Sagittarius)! 'Saggitta' here is wearing: A women's under-tunic, or underskirt, called a subucula. Next, they've added an over-tunic, trousers which are braccae, and leather boots, perones.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

When you’re based on the border of England and Wales and the centuries-old clashes between medieval kingdoms continues in the form of having different school half term dates. We are back open, but we’re still welcoming over 150 Welsh school children every day, so apologies for the restricted hours.

The 'this is fine' meme of a cartoon dog with a bowler hat sat at a table in a room on fire in the first panel. In the second panel there's a closeup and they're saying 'this is fine'.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

GRWD (Get Ready With Deva)! Today's edition is a Roman Legionary! Flavius is wearing: Leather boots, called calcei. The tunic or tunica is laced up to be just above the knee, for a soldier. (It would be below the knee for a citizen.) Next comes subarmalis which is padded.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, and smells of Roman Chester, with our brand new family-friendly adventure, opening April 5th! Find out more and book your tickets now: devaromancentre.co.uk

A marble effect background with a Roman spear on the left with three banners waving from it. Red, blue, and terracotta colours. The top of the image says Deva Roman Experience and there is a small image of gladiator in a chariot being pulled by horses riding along one of the banners.
On the banners it says:
Easter Hours

Saturday April 5th & Sunday April 6th Open 10am - 6pm

Saturday April 12th to Monday April 21st Open 10am* - 6pm 6pm
*Tuesday April 15th, open from 3pm-6pm

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Our boss just turned up to work in this.

A red mini parked between a brick wall and bollards, it is hand painted and decorated in a variety of 60s designs, to look like Lennon's mini from The Beatles. It definitely stands out from the norm.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We are so lucky! Who else gets to come into work and have a Roman soldier offer them some food of the gods - libum (Roman cheesecake) that they themselves made at home? A batter made with fresh cheese, baked on bay leaves, and then soaked in honey. Mmm... so delicious! Thanks Tom!

A young white man with a beard and long hair pulled back, dressed as a Roman soldier, in a red tunic and leather armour, with leather shoes. He's stood smiling in front of a faux brick wall, holding a small plastic container with pieces of a pale golden food in it.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Can we share a #fauxsaic on #MosaicMonday? Or is that a faux pas? We uhh (cough) borrowed* this design from the fantastic floors at @bignorvilla.bsky.social and recreated it in our front foyer. Bonus: If you sit on the bench in front of it, it looks like Medusa's snake hair is your snake hair! 🐍

A very detailed and colourful mosaic design. It is of a stylised woman's face with snakes coming out from her head. There is a white background with decorative borders in green, yellow, and red. Around the outside of that are black triangles in the white background. The entire thing is hinged in the middle and latched to the wall at the top.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you were living in ancient Rome and wanted to get here in time for our opening on April 5th, how long do you think it would take? Would you walk, march, ride a horse... sail a boat?! We're really excited for our new family-friendly adventure opening Easter half-term! Want to know more? Ask us!

A young white man, dressed as a Roman-era solider or gladiator, pointing a trident at the camera, while holding a net and looking very serious. Bold white text reads: Deva Roman Experience, Opening April 5th

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"Beware the 15th of March" doesn't quite have the same ring to it, so we can get why Shakespeare went with what he did. But also, poor Idibus Martias, it really needs a re-brand. This year might be its year. It's all about the intonation. And who you're saying it to. *BEWARE the Ides of March!*

Slide 6: Et tu, Brute? A red arch with buff text: Julius Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate on the Ides of March in 44 BCE. A number of senators conspired against Caesar, seeing his political actions as a threat against republican traditions. They wanted to prevent Caesar from becoming a king of the Romans.

Slide 7: An Omen Lasts, The Entire Day. A woodcut manuscript illustration of Caesar's assassination, on red blocks: Shakespeare dramatised a supposed interaction between Caesar and a seer, using the now famous line ‘beware the Ides of March’. Caesar supposedly saw the same seer on his walk to the senate and called out to him that the Ides of March had come and yet he was still fine. To which the seer replied that yes they had come “but they are not yet gone”.

Slide 8: The King is Dead, Long Live the Emperor. A red arch with buff text: Rather than saving it, the assassination of Caesar effectively ended the Roman republic, making the Ides of March a significant turning point in Roman history. His adopted heir Octavian (Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus), inherited everything after his death, and went on to found in Roman Empire.

Slide 9: So Beware, The Ides of March. A red background with a buff banner and text. In the centre is an arch cropped sketch for a classical painting of the scene of Caesar's assassination.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We mostly run school tours right now (we'll be open to the public again at Easter half-term) and all the staff are really disappointed we won't get to act out the Ides of March this year, because it falls on a Saturday. It's like a Mitchell Brook Primary play. Caesar's death has never been so cute!

Slide 2: Beware, the Ides of March. A red arch in the centre with buff coloured text: But what are the Ides? And why should we beware?

Slide 3: First, Roman Calendars. A mosaic arch background, with text on red blocks: The ancient Romans didn’t count the days of the month like us, by the number of days after the first of the month. Instead, they marked significant days each month, the Kalends, Nones, and Ides and then counted the number of days until these specific days.

Slide 4: One Five Seven Thirteen Fifteen. A red arch with buff text: Kalends: the first day of each month Nones: the seventh day of full months and the fifth day of hollow months Ides: the 15th day of full months and the 13th day of hollow months Full months: months originally with 31 days: March, May, July, October Hollow months: all of the other months

Slide 5: Making History. A black background with a bust of Caeser. On red blocks: So the Ides of March was just the Roman way of saying: March 15th. Like many Kalends, Nones, and Ides, this specific day of the month was marked with several religious observances, but... in 44 BCE it was also the date that Julius Caesar was assassinated.

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Deva Roman Experience @devaroman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

You probably all know already. But we made these pretty graphics, so we might as well make a thread with them in. It's pretty dramatic stuff, hey? The angst. Just look at that painting! (La mort de Cèsar, painted in 1806 by Vincenzo Camuccini.)

Slide 1: A buff coloured background with a red banner at the top that says Beware and red text below The Ides of March. In the centre is a portion of a classical painting showing the scene of Caesar's assassination.

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