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Augustus was a crazy social conservative.
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Augustus came to mean the emperor, whether one or two at a time. Caesar came to mean a junior emperor, or heir to the title of emperor.
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Jun 23, 2012 01:05
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That is one of the cool things of the Vindolanda tablets: it shows "normal" people speaking and writing Latin in one of the farthest outposts of the empire. Well I guess we just assume they were speaking it since they were writing it. I guess that is not a completely safe assumption.
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Jun 23, 2012 16:25
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Rome stopped using the phalanx in the 310s or so during the Samnite wars. BCE obviously.
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Jun 25, 2012 05:26
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Why would you land an invasion force under the cliffs of Dover. (I didn't see the movie.) Between Rome and Spartacus we have been spoiled with some great Rome TV.
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Jun 25, 2012 14:36
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They still prosecuted people for crimes. You could be fined, exiled, killed or enslaved if guilty.
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Jun 25, 2012 21:09
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The massive expense of the professional army is one of the 1,000,000 reasons why the west fell. (I know we had a huge discussion about whether it is right to say the west fell.) Paying all the soldiers destabilized the currency which lead to depressions. At one point the Roman empire reverted almost completely to a barter economy. For taxes, people paid in kind, rather than in coins. For example, a laborer would owe the state 15 days of labor and a horse breeder would owe the state 5 horses. The expense of the army also lead to ridiculous taxes (deficit spending had not been invented yet) which rich people ended up not really paying which lead to class conflict and another reason the west fell.
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Jun 27, 2012 18:46
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Orkiec posted:How late did Roman Polytheism continue to exist? Not as in neopaganism or anything but when was it finally snuffed out of historical record? I would say the closing of the Oracle at Delphi in 395 is as good an end date as any other.
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Jun 29, 2012 14:15
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Eggplant Wizard posted:. Off the top of my head I'm pretty sure Apollo is a near eastern dude with new clothes on, but I may be misremembering. I think he was conflated with the sun god worship from Syria.
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Jun 29, 2012 14:57
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Don't forget dinner parties and banquets. And hiring prostitutes.
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Jun 29, 2012 16:34
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Numidians weren't "black" as it is understood today. Most likely.
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Jul 3, 2012 18:59
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You mean ebony?
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Jul 3, 2012 19:29
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Poetry is a good source.
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Jul 5, 2012 18:37
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Hadrian was the first bearded emperor.
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Jul 6, 2012 14:31
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Nenonen posted:Nero was a brave avant-gardist where Hadrian was a successful popularizer. Yeah that is what I was thinking.
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Jul 6, 2012 14:54
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General Panic posted:I would imagine that without modern technology actually mining anything was probably really difficult and dangerous, too. Even if you were prepared to expend a lot of slave labour doing it, there must have been limits to how much ore the Romans could physically get out of the ground. Why? You just dig holes or melt hillsides with water. Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%C3%A9dulas Though that was gold, not iron.
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Jul 9, 2012 19:37
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St Augustine was writing about the decline of Rome in 410 in the City of God.
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Jul 13, 2012 03:35
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TildeATH posted:Where did Hannibal get his elephants from, anyway? Extinct species that lived in north africa. Most of them. He had some asian ones too.
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Jul 14, 2012 02:49
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Boiled Water posted:So he went to north Africa to stock up on elephants, then went over the alps to get into Italy? His home base was Spain. He marched from Spain to Rome.
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Jul 14, 2012 02:52
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Roman borders were mostly staffed with legions, auxiliary units and tax collectors. Most borders were natural: The Rhine, the Danube, the Euphrates, the Atlantic, the Sahara, the cataracts in the Nile. They also built borders like Hadrian's wall and the Limes Germanicus. Roman power usually extended beyond the frontiers too. Here is a recent radio show on Hadrian's Wall http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkr42
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Jul 17, 2012 03:00
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Everyone knew the earth was round. It is obvious. The flat earth stuff is some weird Renaissance meme. The Romans called the world "Orbis". euphronius fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Jul 17, 2012 |
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Jul 17, 2012 23:38
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There was one point in the Dominate I think where inflation was so bad that taxes were actually collected in kind. Which is pretty amazing. The bureaucrats figured out how much stuff they needed each year and then apportioned it among the population based on people's jobs and wealth.
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Jul 18, 2012 01:58
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They ate shitloads of fish.
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Aug 8, 2012 23:37
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Yeah. Odoacer for example was the Western Emperor in all be name.
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Aug 10, 2012 20:45
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The difference between the Preatorian Guard and the Secret Service is that the Guard was an actual military force that could defend itself against an attack by another legion and hold Rome and Italy hostage if they offed the emperor. The Secret Service would get routed if they killed the president.
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Aug 11, 2012 04:20
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Sadly no one knows much about the beginnings of Rome and most of the stories are "merely" legends.
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Aug 20, 2012 14:48
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Vitruvius was a "renaissance man". Before the Renaissance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius
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Aug 27, 2012 14:23
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I think you guys and ladies are underestimating the degree to which Romans were (what we today call) racist. I can recall many instances where generals or other Romans and non Romans were blocked from higher political office because they weren't Latin or whatever. These racist attitudes were probably concentrated in the old Senate, which was cleansed after Caesar, but the attitudes lived on.
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Aug 27, 2012 20:09
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Don't forget Agrippina the Younger, who could validly claim to have been Empress of Rome with actual power.
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Aug 28, 2012 15:42
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Another way bankruptcy laws are designed to protect creditors is that they ensure that each creditor has a chance of getting some money back. With out any law, only one creditor would end up getting paid off (generally).
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Aug 30, 2012 18:38
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Caligula hated the Senate and it was a giant gently caress You to the Senate to make his horse Consul.
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Aug 31, 2012 19:20
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Doubtful if Caligula was insane. Inanity was a common smear. The aristocrats hated him because he killed them and took their land. Who knows if he was sane or not.
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Aug 31, 2012 20:58
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Claudius (well, his generals) invaded Britain with elephants.
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Sep 10, 2012 21:11
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Being a trireme rower would be an excellent weight loss method, that is for sure.
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Sep 25, 2012 19:41
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Guys Alexandria Eschate was REALLY far away from Greece. Here is a nice map. Alexander was pretty amazing.
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Sep 27, 2012 01:43
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One cool think about Romania is that Romanian is a Romance language like Spanish or French or Italian, though I doubt many people would group it with those languages.
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Oct 4, 2012 05:28
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DarkCrawler posted:I heard that rich Romans used to puke between every course just so they could stuff themselves some more, is this true? It may have happened like it may have happened in any nation but it was not normal and Romans would have probably thought it was disgusting and immoral. The Romans get portrayed as sinful and immoral by early Christian writers (polemicists) but they were not particularly hedonistic.
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Oct 15, 2012 14:25
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Behold! the decadent vomitorium in all its hedonistic and prurient glory!
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Oct 15, 2012 15:25
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Fighting ships did not say near to shore because on shore would be giant gently caress-off guns.
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Pretty cool screen shot from a link in Komet's post
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