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CommonShore posted:My friends in Taipei tell me that ground floor apartments are way more expensive there so I guess it depends on where you are. You do get some great views on the upper floors though.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah, there's always exceptions. The biggest obvious one being Diocletian going off to his cabbage patch, or Sulla's similar retirement. I just realized: with his proscriptions, Sulla was just being an innovator. He invented a gig economy for political murder. 
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https://twitter.com/rachelholliday/status/1314580135350337536?s=20
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galagazombie posted:As much as I wished the series continued forever I'm simultaneously glad ROME ended where it did. Even besides the fact it had a great ending, the next few seasons were going to be about Pullo rosencrantz and guildensterning his way through the Passion of the Christ and I just can't see a way that doesn't come out terrible. HBO's Rome had red color thematically through the series, my new idea would be....... "Carthage", with white all over.
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You know she wouldn’t have to kill heroes if she had just covered up her hair.
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Classical heroes all deserve their heads to be cut off, imho. They're all huge assholes.
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No genitals for Medusa.
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Alhazred posted:No genitals for Medusa. Did Medusa have pubic snakes?
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Also the head of Perseus here is a self-portrait lol https://twitter.com/GarbatiLuciano/status/1013183324293140480
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eke out posted:Also the head of Perseus here is a self-portrait lol literal “god I wish that were me”
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shouldn’t she be beheading Poseidon or Athena, not the guy who mercy-killed her?
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Holofernes With the Head of Judith #DudesRock
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PawParole posted:shouldn’t she be beheading Poseidon or Athena, not the guy who mercy-killed her? It's extremely on-brand for corporate wokeness that it's not anyone with actual power.
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Seems like a bad message for a justice system.
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Libluini posted:Classical heroes all deserve their heads to be cut off, imho. They're all huge assholes. I recently started listening to the History of Ancient Greece podcast and holy poo poo were greek gods and heroes the worst people ever
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Dalael posted:I recently started listening to the History of Ancient Greece podcast and holy poo poo were greek gods and heroes the worst people ever Kinda just makes them humans.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Seems like a bad message for a justice system. It's not being put up by the justice system, and "women should decapitate men who assault them" is an important message.
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Chamale posted:It's not being put up by the justice system, and "women should decapitate men who assault them" is an important message. Well yeah, but Perseus was stopping a deranged killer when he cut her head off. Poseidon and Athena attacked her.
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Dalael posted:I recently started listening to the History of Ancient Greece podcast and holy poo poo were greek gods and heroes the worst people ever Paris Did Nothing Wrong
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Oberndorf posted:Well yeah, but Perseus was stopping a deranged killer when he cut her head off. Poseidon and Athena attacked her. Seems to me that Medusa was minding her own business in her cave when Perseus walked in and killed her because he needed a weapon.
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I thought he was explicitly there to complete A Task and get rid of the monster making statues out of people.
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Oberndorf posted:I thought he was explicitly there to complete A Task and get rid of the monster making statues out of people. Humans are the real monsters
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Oberndorf posted:I thought he was explicitly there to complete A Task and get rid of the monster making statues out of people. Yeah, a king was having a feast and the guests were supposed to bring gifts, and he asked for horses. Perseus didn't have a horse so instead he told the king to name his gift and he'd get whatever he wanted. The king was dick so he said to bring him the head of Medusa. It's also worth noting that the Medusa w/ Perseus' Head sculpture is a direct reference to the renaissance sculpture Perseus with the Head of Medusa. So there's also that aspect of it.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah, a king was having a feast and the guests were supposed to bring gifts, and he asked for horses. Perseus didn't have a horse so instead he told the king to name his gift and he'd get whatever he wanted. The king was dick so he said to bring him the head of Medusa. I'd forgotten that Polydectes specifically asked for horses. That adds a bit of thematic sense to Pegasus emerging from Medusa's neck, I guess.
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Mod edit: flavius sextundus has large girth comparable in grandeur to Jupiter
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:flavius sextundus has large girth comparable in grandeur to Jupiter Celadus the Thracian makes the girls moan!
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https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/roman-city-rises Link for the antiquity article: https://www.cambridge.org/core/jour...09B/core-reader quote:Abstract I think this is pretty drat cool
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LingcodKilla posted:Kinda just makes them humans. The old pagan pantheons with their flawed and limited gods make much more sense in relation to the world as it is than an omniscient and omnipotent perfect God. A landslide wiping out an entire town as everyone sleeps or crop failures causing famine or just the existence of disease should all be impossible under a almighty God unless he is actively malignant but when your gods are a bunch of pretty assholes it makes perfect sense. 
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From David Potter’s The Roman Empire at Bay:quote:A first-century dedication in Paeonia was made by a retired member of the Praetorian Guard to “the dragon who is honored here,” and an eighth-century text describing polytheist monuments in the area of Constantinople mentions only “a big bronze dragon.” One North African text is dedicated to Dragon Augustus (another example of the process described above whereby imperial titles were adopted into local conceptions of divine power). Another commemorates “Divine Hand of Dragon.” It is a little hard to visualize just what the dragon with the divine hand would have looked like... gently caress yeah, Dragon Augustus! Give me some statues of that guy.
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skasion posted:From David Potter’s The Roman Empire at Bay:  this is the Dragon Augustus of the modern age
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Removing the Empires Roman theming was one the worst of many mistakes Oblivion made. I was glad they went back to being Romans in Skyrim.
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What is Cicero's most accessible work to start with? I just finished Adrian Goldworthy's Caesar and I loved him being a sarcastic dick: Brutus: I think Caesar will join the Boni soon Cicero: Oh, so he's gonna commit suicide then?
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Cicero didn’t really do accessible, pretty much everything he wrote was for his own incredibly stuck-up social circle or else to impress a crowd with how smart he was. So you’ll want a good annotated edition of whatever you choose to read. The Second Philippic is probably the most fun to read since he’s just savaging Antonius and listing all the dumb poo poo he ever did. I have the Penguin Selected Works which has that and a couple of his other “greatest hits” as well as some of his correspondence. Cicero wrote a lot about a lot of different things though, so any collection is bound to leave a lot out. I like “On the Nature of Gods” and “On Divination” but ymmv.
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There's one letter where he's writing tp his freedman/friend where he crows over Caesar having visited his villa, it's pretty funny in retrospect.
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galagazombie posted:Removing the Empires Roman theming was one the worst of many mistakes Oblivion made. I was glad they went back to being Romans in Skyrim. I would have gone with wussing out of the weird jungle setting.
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Cicero's brother wrote a book about campaigning for office. It has such helpful tidbits as "promise anything to everybody, once you're elected it doesn't matter if you follow through" and suchlike.
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CommunityEdition posted:I would have gone with wussing out of the weird jungle setting. Jungles would've looked so lovely in the oblivion engine though
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sullat posted:Cicero's brother wrote a book about campaigning for office. It has such helpful tidbits as "promise anything to everybody, once you're elected it doesn't matter if you follow through" and suchlike. I feel like writing that book might hinder your ability to make promises which people will trust enough to vote for you
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