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Recently I've been watching a lot of youtube videos about the Bronze Age Collapse, is there a definitive text on the subject? Particularly interested in the supply chain conditions that led to the complete breakdown of society at that time and what happened during the immediate power vacuum that followed the demise of each regional power.
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exquisite tea posted:Recently I've been watching a lot of youtube videos about the Bronze Age Collapse, is there a definitive text on the subject? Particularly interested in the supply chain conditions that led to the complete breakdown of society at that time and what happened during the immediate power vacuum that followed the demise of each regional power. 1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
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Aug 22, 2020 19:36
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Alhazred posted:1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline I'll second that.
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Aug 22, 2020 21:06
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I think with prompt modern medical care stabbings and shootings are something absurd like 98% survivable if they don't hit you in the brain or heart. The other 2% say STOP FUSSIN’. 
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Aug 23, 2020 05:33
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Milo and POTUS posted:It seems bad from a gameplay standpoint to have 60 npcs move before the pc. Nicolaus of Damascus wrote that (other's paraphrasing): "In the Senate, one of the plotters, Tilius Cimber, approached Caesar under the pretext of pleading for his exiled brother. He grabbed Caesar’s toga, preventing him from standing and apparently signalling the attack." Cimber began the encounter by grappling, Caesar failed his save-or-die and that's all she wrote.
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Aug 23, 2020 07:15
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Alhazred posted:Getting a small wound before people discovered the benefit of disinfection was also bad. Buddy, people, as a collective, have still not discovered the benefit of disinfection.
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Aug 23, 2020 07:25
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 Lucius Calidus Eroticus (yes, really) was a freed slave who probably lived during the first half of the first century AD together with his wife Fannia Voluptas (yes, REALLY) in or around Aesernia (today’s Isernia) about 150 kilometres southwest of Rome. He is only known by his highly unusual epitaph, which not only shows a hooded man with a mule (interpreted as Eroticus himself - er, the man and not the mule, that is) and another man seen as an innkeep, but also writes out a joke dialogue between the two. The epitaph reads: Lucius Calidus Eroticus made this epitaph for himself and Fannia Voluptas. „Innkeep, the bill please!“ - „You had a sextarius of wine and bread for one as, side dishes for two asses.“ - „Ok.“ - „A girl for eight asses.“ - „Yeah.“ - „Hay for the mule, two asses.“ - „This mule is gonna ruin me!“ It is commonly assumed that Eroticus and Voluptas were both running a brothel/inn themselves, and Aesernia being located at a prominent crossroads would certainly facilitate that. On the other hand, sometimes a joke is just a joke and we now also know that the couple's names both weren’t so curious as they appear to us nowadays but were instead quite common, so they probably weren’t supposed to be read as programmatic like the one historian thought who translated their names as "Lucius Hotstuff Lover" and "Fannia gently caress"  So, was this epitaph intended to reference the deceased couple's lives or was it instead just the Roman version of our "A man walks into a bar..." jokes aiming to make passersby smile? Nobody knows.e: and it just occurred to me that this is simply a 2000 year old variation of the dril tweet with the candles, lol System Metternich has a new favorite as of 08:03 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 08:01
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System Metternich posted:e: and it just occurred to me that this is simply a 2000 year old variation of the dril tweet with the candles, lol That's my take as well
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Aug 23, 2020 08:49
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British Fanny or American
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Aug 23, 2020 09:26
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The mule is cracking up lol
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Aug 23, 2020 10:04
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From https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8fquote:Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors. For this project, I have transformed, or restored (cracks, noses, ears etc.) 800 images of busts to make the 54 emperors of The Principate (27 BC to 285 AD). 
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Aug 24, 2020 03:02
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The year of the four emperors... nice
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Aug 24, 2020 03:32
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Love that call from Vespasian where orders pants and gives detailed specifications to make them loose around his "bunghole."
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Aug 24, 2020 04:05
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Melaneus posted:The year of the four emperors... nice I don't see what's so special about LXIX.
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Aug 24, 2020 07:23
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Hmm those ranges start out pretty long but then they... decline for some reason
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Aug 24, 2020 09:50
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Scaramouche posted:Hmm those ranges start out pretty long but then they... decline for some reason Reign length is often inversely proportional to the hotness of the emperor. Or maybe the beauty standards for emperors just got higher over time
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Aug 24, 2020 10:20
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Maxx Thraxx would be an awesome band name.
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Aug 24, 2020 10:47
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Maximinus Thrash
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Aug 24, 2020 11:01
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I guess the pun "mule/asses" wasn't a pun in latin, right? It's just how the roman currency was translated into english, right?
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Aug 24, 2020 13:10
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Wipfmetz posted:I guess the pun "mule/asses" wasn't a pun in latin, right? It's just how the roman currency was translated into english, right? Yeah, no pun here - the as was a common Roman coin produced from about 280 BC to ~280 AD and derived from a really ancient unit of weight, the aes (which means just "bronze") and where the oldest extant Roman finds date back to the 8th century BC (but possibly went back much further, with current scholarship suggesting that bronze nuggets with an unknown name might have been used as proto-coinage all over Europe as early as the 3rd millennium BC). It evolved into the currency unit of as over the centuries, whose Latin plural was asses (with the e pronounced like in "test", but long). Fun fact: the ace in card games gets its name from the aes/as of Roman times!
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Aug 24, 2020 13:28
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Again... what type of Fanny. I assume american?
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Aug 24, 2020 14:15
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alright, here we go yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes, no...
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Aug 24, 2020 14:30
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Babe Magnet posted:alright, here we go Nobody wants to gently caress Nero.
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Aug 24, 2020 14:35
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Trabant posted:Nobody wants to gently caress Nero. It's the yellow shirts.
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Aug 24, 2020 16:21
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For me Claudius Gothicus looks most "modern" of the bunch, or the one i could most easily imagine on the street without looking out of place.
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Aug 24, 2020 23:46
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Falukorv posted:For me Claudius Gothicus looks most "modern" of the bunch, or the one i could most easily imagine on the street without looking out of place. Augustus looks a lot like Daniel Craig if Daniel Craig gave himself a bowl cut
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Aug 25, 2020 00:19
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Elgablus looks exactly like the kind of awkward teen you would expect.
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Aug 25, 2020 00:52
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drat, Nero looks like a goon.
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Aug 25, 2020 01:53
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You could Photoshop the pair of them into one of those crusty old Goon Meet photos and if you did a halfway decent job no one would notice
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Aug 25, 2020 02:02
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Fighting Trousers posted:drat, Nero looks like a goon. maybe they just used ramzan kadyrov's pic: 
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Aug 25, 2020 02:52
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Falukorv posted:For me Claudius Gothicus looks most "modern" of the bunch, or the one i could most easily imagine on the street without looking out of place. You can just say he's the hottest. Its cool. We were all thinking it.
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Aug 25, 2020 03:10
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Fighting Trousers posted:drat, Nero looks like a goon. This is the emperor sporting a neckbeard on his statues, so yeah.
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Aug 25, 2020 03:11
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Terry O'Quinn! That's who Vespasian reminds me of! And Numerian could be Tim Duncan's cousin.
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Aug 25, 2020 03:41
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I think Didius Julianus remodeled my kitchen
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Aug 25, 2020 03:43
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Elagabulus looks like a Tinder dude who insults you if you don't reply to his skeevy messages
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Aug 25, 2020 05:03
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The legend lists two footnote options: "killed" and "suicide" so what's the deal with Geta? Also Elagabulus is the cashier at the gas station who has to call his manager if you want to buy liquor.
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Aug 25, 2020 05:21
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Atticus_1354 posted:You can just say he's the hottest. Its cool. We were all thinking it. Hostilian looks like a total fuckboy
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Aug 25, 2020 05:22
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wheatpuppy posted:The legend lists two footnote options: "killed" and "suicide" so what's the deal with Geta? Geta was Caracalla's brother and co-emperor. They hated each other's guts, so much so that they put a dividing wall in the imperial palace, fearing assassination attempts. Their mother wanted to reconcile them, so arranged for a meeting in her quarters, with both emperors not allowed to bring any bodyguards in. Caracalla, being the bigger rear end in a top hat, brought his bodyguards anyway and had his brother murdered right in front of their mother. I don’t like Caracalla very much.
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Aug 25, 2020 06:14
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Atticus_1354 posted:You can just say he's the hottest. Its cool. We were all thinking it. Listen, if we're going to do this we might as well do it properly: 
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Aug 25, 2020 07:07
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They're Roman emperors, I think you're obligated to gently caress, marry, then kill all of them
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