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What is the most egregious error on the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ?
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May 29, 2012 09:48
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Grand Fromage posted:If you've not read about the Battle of Alesia, that is the place to start on how terrifyingly effective Roman siegecraft could be. Having all your soldiers trained in basic construction and engineering gave legions an edge that is hard to adequately describe. I don't know what you mean. What exactly would regular soldiers engineer and build?
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May 30, 2012 08:00
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You've talked about Rome and its influence on the modern world. What about Italy specifically?
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Jun 1, 2012 11:18
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physeter posted:This is entirely true. The best guideline I can offer to understanding Roman cognomens like "Caesar" and "Magnus" is to watch the scene from Goodfellas where they pan through the club and name all the gangsters. Roman noble names were literally their equivalent of "Jimmy Two Times" and "Joey Bag o Donuts". Caesar means "hairy" and they were all pre-maturely bald. Pompey Magnus (meaning "The Great") had that name because when he was an obnoxious 16 year old general, Sulla would see him coming and mutter "oh look here comes Pompey Magnus". Cool-sounding names typically translate into something like cross-eyed, clubfooted, big nosed, etc etc. Oh God... please give me more gangster name translations of ancient Romans
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Jun 1, 2012 22:14
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Nenonen posted:Latin is a dead language because humanists killed it. The original vulgar Latin mixed into other local languages and languages of the invaders, eg. Spanish was influenced by Iberian languages and Arabic. The only living branch of vulgar Latin survived in Catholic monasteries spoken by monks, until during the Renaissance humanists made it seem like a retardation of classical Latin. I don't follow this post. What does humanist mean in this context? I assumed that latin was dead because all languages that old have transformed into another language or other languages.
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Jun 10, 2012 08:32
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CrypticFox posted:the verb for "to give" (or something similar) can identified based on it being repeatedly constantly in these offering bowls. What is it?
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