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Did Jewish people create ancient Israel or did Israel create Judaism?
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Mar 13, 2018 18:22
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Was this before or after the modern Torah was compiled?
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Mar 14, 2018 00:20
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The ancient Near East is just fascinating.
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Mar 14, 2018 00:26
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Hero of the People Caesar brutally murdered by the cowardly oligarchic reactionaries.
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Mar 16, 2018 03:14
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Gaius Marius posted:You might be joking but lepidus managed to die of old age which is something none of Augustus other enemies can claim. Probably because unlike every other spurned Roman general of the age he decided to gently caress off and lie low after being stripped of his powers instead of raising some legions and going to war in the name of his Dignitas.
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Mar 16, 2018 16:15
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Pontius Pilate posted:Seems as if the convention is Octavian for the civil war and before and Augustus for well y’know. The standard English convention is Octavius pre adoption, Octavian post adoption, and then Augustus.
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Mar 16, 2018 18:56
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Is Pompey the only guy to have Magnus in his formal name? Every other (and way better) famous Roman general has something more specific like Africanus.
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Mar 17, 2018 17:26
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Is there any particular reason for why it was so seldom used in Roman culture? Was it out of admiration for Alexander?
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Mar 17, 2018 17:55
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Arglebargle III posted:I was looking at Austronesian history today and I did not realize they had reached Easter Island and Madagascar while the Romans still thought the Bay of Biscay was rough going. I thought that Madagascar remained basically uninhabited for a strangely long time considering its close proximity to Africa.
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Apr 1, 2018 04:38
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Jazerus posted:since you mentioned swords, it's worth noting that the transition to swords was later than the transition to maniples. that comes around a hundred years later when rome starts going on military adventures in hispania, where the native celts were all armed with swords The Romans had adopted the Gladius well prior to the 2nd Punic War when they first went to Hispania. I think it’s believed they copied it in the early 200s after yet another Celtic incursion into Italy.
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Apr 10, 2018 20:32
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I think it's kind of cool that human civilization could completely vanish tomorrow and in 3 thousand years the Great Pyramids will still be around as a monument.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:27
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Aside from the obvious joke answer of Lives of Famous Whores or Claudius’s history of the Etruscans which ancient work would you most like to be discovered complete in some newly excavated basement?
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Sep 30, 2018 03:44
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Yeah I mean stuff we know for sure existed and was lost. Those missing books of Livy would probably be a goldmine.
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Sep 30, 2018 04:00
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Grand Fromage posted:It's something of a problem since military history is largely ignored by mainstream historians nowadays, the pendulum hasn't swung back yet. Why?
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Oct 7, 2018 02:37
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Is Kagan’s work still the go to account for the Peloponnesian War? I’ve heard mixed things.
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Oct 19, 2018 04:00
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fantastic in plastic posted:Thucydides is the go-to account for the Peloponnesian War. How about something written within the last 20 years?
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Oct 19, 2018 16:56
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Fell Fire posted:Song of Wrath by J.E. Lendon is pretty good. It seems good but it only covers the first 10 years of the war.
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Oct 19, 2018 22:16
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So how do Japanese ultra nationalists reconcile the fact that signs of civilization in Korea safely predate those in Japan?
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Oct 20, 2018 19:36
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Since when have nationalists of any stripe let facts get in the way of their ideals? I assume they have some specific lies that they tell themselves.
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Oct 20, 2018 19:53
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Rome’s system of alliances with the Italian Allies was also integral to Rome’s ability the wage war on a previously unheard of scale due to the massive reserves of manpower it provided. At the time of the Second Punic War Rome was capable of putting around 700,000 fighting men into the field across all of its fronts. It’s why even after Cannae the strategic situation was still weighted heavily in Rome’s favor, a fact that Hannibal was well aware of which is why he immediately attempted to turn Rome’s allies against them instead of trying to attack the city itself. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 02:05
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Technically the size of the Roman Army was significantly larger in 400 AD than it was in 100 AD. On paper anyway. But most of it was locked down locally and couldn’t be mustered together to meet large external threats let along go campaigning.
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Oct 21, 2018 04:34
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What newer books are there about how Rome’s 4th century was actually really good? Does Goldsworthy or Peter Heather go into that in their books on the Fall of the West?
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Oct 21, 2018 19:47
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Mantis42 posted:. Well we know that’s possible.
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Oct 21, 2018 21:02
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What are some of you guys most favorite paintings of historical events of antiquity? I’m looking to get a few prints framed. The Neoclassical stuff by David is pretty good if not meant to be a realistic depiction.
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Oct 25, 2018 05:04
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spoon daddy posted:I always like to pitch The British History Podcast by Jamie Jeffers. He started 7 years ago and just hit mid 10th Century. He does a lot of culture analysis and makes it relevant to his telling of history. Too bad he’ll never come close to finishing.
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Nov 9, 2018 16:39
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I always find it humorous that the Romans were so exact and precise with all of their city and fortification planning while their own city was a adhoc confusing clusterfuck.
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Nov 16, 2018 16:55
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Epicurius posted:The US is the same way too. Try driving in Boston vs Salt Lake City. It's just the difference between a city that develops organically and one that is planned. Boston is indeed a clusterfuck but our official capital of DC and our financial capital of Manhattan are both relatively cleanly planned designs.
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Nov 16, 2018 17:16
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The dudes been on the year 1025 for like 6 months.
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Dec 19, 2018 03:04
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So what happened between 1025 and everything going to absolute poo poo in 1077? I know that Basil II painted the map by reconquering Bulgaria and Eastern Anatolia but did that really translate to the Empire being as strong as it looks on a map in 1025? Or were the seeds of the disasters later in the century already planted?
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Dec 19, 2018 18:03
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It’s funny how the very first loving Emperor ran into succession problems and yet the Empire continued to deal with them for another 1400 years.
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Dec 19, 2018 20:10
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Grand Fromage posted:Every emperor needs an Agrippa. Did he really end up as a blind beggar?
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Dec 19, 2018 20:41
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I play a lot of Crusader Kings 2 so I’m kind of an expert on succession.
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Dec 20, 2018 01:06
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Christ I browse this thread to get away from bullshit “both sides are the same” hot takes.
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Dec 22, 2018 02:07
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Tacitus was the “makes a desert and calls it peace” guy right?
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Dec 22, 2018 18:40
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For those that work in the the history field professionally, how irritated do you get get someone just says that the Romans just “stole” all of their gods from the Greeks?
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Dec 23, 2018 14:43
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The Romans were originally Korean settlers.
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Dec 26, 2018 18:03
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Is The Last Kingdom good good or is it just schlocky good?
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Dec 29, 2018 21:20
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HEY GUNS posted:happy new year my friends Is this one of those Shakespeare “teens translation edition” things?
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Not entirely on topic but gently caress it. Does anyone have any recommendations for a book covering late Medieval/Early Modern France? Basically a historical narrative of the Ancien Regime up to the Revolution. The only things I can find are academic publications that do deep dives into some specific topic from the period. Oh and they all cost $50 for like 150 pages.
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