Hi!! Decennalia AS/AW? Great!!!

Author: * Tanaquil Sergius - 2 Posts on this thread out of 1,424 Posts sitewide.
Date: Jun 16, 2007 - 05:47

I have been an active AW member from the start of AW and a Scribe in Rome for about one and a half year. I was also a member of AS from the fall of 2000 (if I remember it correctly) until it went offline, that'll be about half a year. I ended up there as a patron maximum and the mater familias of the Sergius Family. Through a friend, I received the url of my AS home as it was when the community went offline:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001211225100/www.ancientsites.com/users/SERGIUS_TANAQUIL

I'm very happy to have my old AS home url back again from the webarchives, so I can see to which groups I belonged to. Of course, the most important one for me was Etruria. When AS went down, the most active members of Etruria took the group further on AV (the Ancient Vines), which took in a lot of AS members , but went down shortly afterwards. After that, several "Etruscans" created spaces on the internet where we coud share our knowledge and discussions and linked all of them together. Some of us created a website on the Etruscans, like Camitlnas Tullius (The Mysterious Etruscans) and I myself (The Caere Site). We were quite a tight group when and after AS went down, but personal differences finally broke up our co-operation. I also created a novel about the Etruscans on PanHistoria: Tular Rasnal. In the beginning, it was quite busy and popular, yet, as time went by, people felt it hard to co-operate, since a lot of study on the subject of the Etruscans was required to write a group novel about them. I also had another great novel project at PH: Imperium Romanum, which dealt with the Julio-Claudian Imperial family. A very big project and very rewarding at first, until people started to disappear. I guess, that happens with online writing projects.

My biggest projects in AW have been the Schola Linguae Latinae, which I recently put in the hands of my good RL friend Titus Pullo Lupus, and Etruria, the old AS follow up group about the Etruscans.

I really LOVE the idea of having a decennalia festival, to commemorate te 10th anniversary of the AS/AW concept of a web community. I really want to be part of that! I hope some old AS members and AW members that aren't around that much anymore, will find their way back to AW to celebrate it's 10th anniversary! It's sad to know that some of us, who have passed away, wn't be here to celebrate with us, but I'm sure they will be with us somehow. I'm especially thinking of my, and our, dear friend Caius Fabius, who passed away in October 2006.

Due to all kinds of changes in my RL, I haven't been able to keep up with AW. Now that I'm fully in the educational business again, I think AW activity will again match more with my RL and I will be online more often. For any help in Latin and ancient Greek problems, you can knock on my door, although I'm sure I will leave the SLL leadership in the hands of the people who lead it now. There's still much more for me to do: Etruria, Hellenike Paideia and many more projects I left behind when my time to be here ran short. Yet, it's time for me to come back, because I can't say that I haven't missed AW, in spite of some differences and troublesome discussions I sometimes had here with some of te members here. AW is still a place that rocks for me!

Facite ut valeatis!

Tanaquil Sergius