Tweets from the Roman front line
The mass invasion of Northern England by the Roman army nearly 2,000 years ago this winter is being re-told in tweets this coming season through the eyes of a Roman legionary.
iTweetus on Hadrian’s Wall‘iTweetus’ will commemorate the arrival of thousands of Roman soldiers marching on the North of the country in the winter of 72/73AD – over 1,938 years ago.
iTweetus is the Twitter name for Marcus Julius Latinus, a 26-year-old member of a Roman Legion seizing Carlisle in Cumbria, or ‘Luguvalium’, for the first time.
iTweetus will use modern-day communication tools like Twitter, iPhones and iPad in an attempt to give a sense of what a Roman legionary would have ‘tweeted’ had the technology existed back then.