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What if it's Constantine
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Tunicate posted:The answer is Charlemagne, and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. I would also accept Belisarius
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Squalid posted:And I'd try and end each lesson by tying history back to China or the student's modern lives somehow. Like, what's the phallic graffiti scene in China like, ancient and modern? Content: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160510124835.htm and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Israel At some point, every one gets around and has sex with everyone else. Even your grandparents.
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Otteration posted:Like, what's the phallic graffiti scene in China like, ancient and modern? Wow way to devalue the lbtgqt Comunidad
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Bobby Digital posted:Agrippa Agrippa was the man. The one, singular actually loyal man.
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Nicholas II last heir of Rome.
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interim commissioner appointed after mayor of rome was forced to stand down true heir of rome
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Bobby Digital posted:Agrippa Agrippa.....  Agrippa....  the above excerpts may or may not have been doodled in Augustus' sketchbook.
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Got to be Augustus, he played everyone like a bunch of chumps
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Ask / Tell › Ask me about Roman/Greek/other ancient history: Human history is always about murder and sex.
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Arglebargle III posted:And agricultural technologies. Only because that creates more people to gently caress and/or murder
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:more people to murder Oh great, now the Assyrians are gonna show up 
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Justinian: You're a Donald Trump voter
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Thump! posted:Justinian: You're a Donald Trump voter Tiberius Gracchus: You feel the Bern
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I just found an article from 3 years ago, I don't know if it was ever posted in this thread, I think its kind of cool even if not exactly ancient history: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/?no-ist
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What about Spartacus  ?Comrade Koba posted:Tiberius Gracchus: You feel the Bern
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Going with King Numa. How can you not go with the best?
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Dalael posted:I just found an article from 3 years ago, I don't know if it was ever posted in this thread, I think its kind of cool even if not exactly ancient history: I always love crazy local Saints but I was under the impression they died out in the 12th century, I learned something new today.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Harold Bloom described it well: ... In the (former) Soviet Union, quite a bit of popular Roman studies were focused around slavery and Spartacus. It's a good conflict that will have students rooting for the underdog, a good place to start talking about economic systems, and introduces a few people who will be relevant during the Triumvirate etc. In Israel, things are (as ever) focused on the Jewish angle. The rebellion / wars, Romes interactions with client states. If your students are particularly Christian, switch from the crucifixion to Roman law enforcement etc. Just... find a hook that will work specifically for the kids you're teaching rather than "which parts of Roman history are sexy and action-packed enough for kids these days". Xander77 fucked around with this message at 08:09 on May 18, 2016 |
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Xander77 posted:No. Any sentence that starts with "Harold Bloom claims" is untrue as an axiom.
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Xander77 posted:No. Any sentence that starts with "Harold Bloom claims" is untrue as an axiom. You sure showed how he was wrong
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Lord Tywin posted:What about Spartacus Or Arminius.
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Jerusalem posted:Oh great, now the Assyrians are gonna show up  Murder you say? *sharpens flaying knives.*
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Are there any movies or other recordings with actors speaking Latin? Proper Latin, like what we think it sounded at the time the movie takes place.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Are there any movies or other recordings with actors speaking Latin? Proper Latin, like what we think it sounded at the time the movie takes place. The only one that comes to mind is Derek Jarman's Sebastiane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmvVZX9Frc If you don't like somewhat homoerotic arthouse films than it's probably not your bag.
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Towards the end of the republic you have lone governors raising armies large enough to conquer Rome's neighbors. Then sometime around Marcus Aurelius emperors suddenly can't find enough soldiers to fight on even one front. It seems like every decade or so they strip legions off the Rhine to go East or out of the East to help on the Rhine only to get shanked wherever they pulled troops out of. What happened to Rome that suddenly it can't manage to raise enough soldiers to defend its borders without an Emperor sitting right on the border? LLSix fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 26, 2016 |
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One of the big things was the extension of citizenship to everyone in the empire. Up to that point, citizenship was a huge reward that got dangled out in exchange for service, and the legions had no problem recruiting with that carrot. This also went with a general trend towards serving in the legions being lovely. Earlier in Rome's history, if you were a nobody then joining a legion was one of the better ways to make a life. Citizenship, good pay, food, medical care, etc. As those benefits withered away, and the lack of aggressive wars removed other enticements like looting, it became harder and harder to find anyone willing to join up. The border armies also became less effective because to make up for the recruiting shortfalls, they had to start recruiting non-Romans. So when a German tribe rolls across the border to raid, they find a Roman legion that's 50% dudes from that tribe and they have no interest in fighting their kinsmen.
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The Antonine Plague didn't help matters either.
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Yep. That and the Plague of Justinian were nice big hammer blows on a system already stressed by the other factors.
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It's pretty clear the Roman Empire suffered from a long term population drop. Why this happened is a hot debate.
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They used so much contraception that they hunted the plant into extinction, and at that point they were so tired of boning they just stopped.
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Wonder why farming it didn't catch on.
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Doctor Malaver posted:Are there any movies or other recordings with actors speaking Latin? Proper Latin, like what we think it sounded at the time the movie takes place. I poked around and found http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/Latin.htm which isn't actors, but rather academics, reading Latin in classical pronunciation. I couldn't find any dialogues that were free, but there are textbooks that feature pronunciation lessons and those usually have supplemental recordings.
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LingcodKilla posted:Wonder why farming it didn't catch on. Silphium (the contraceptive plant in question) just wasn't cultivatable, and you can bet they tried hard to cultivate it. Farming is a lot more complicated then just getting the seeds and planting them.
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