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Dutch archaeologists claim they have proof Roman emperor Julius Caesar spent time in what is now present day the Netherlands, after finding remains of a battle site near Oss in Brabant. They say they have found the location where Caesar fought against two German tribes in 55 BC and that this is the first battle field in the Netherlands. Archaeologist Nico Roymans of Amsterdam’s VU University, says this is the first time the presence of Julius Caesar on Dutch soil has been proved. Until now, the site of the battle, which Caesar describes in his account of the Gallic wars, De Bello Gallico, was unknown...
...via DutchNews
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A hoard of silver coins, some of which were issued by Roman general Mark Antony, have been discovered in a Welsh field more than 2,000 years after they were buried. While they have yet to be valued, the 91 coins have been hailed by history experts as 'a significant find' and could be worth 'tens of thousands of pounds.' The coins were issued by Roman rulers spanning 200 years, with the earliest dating back to when Mark Antony was general in 31BC, through to the rule of Emperor Nero between 54 and 68AD and Marcus Aurelius, who headed the Empire from 161AD to 180AD.
via Daily Mail
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A DNA analysis of four ancient Roman-era skeletons found in London shows the early inhabitants of the city were a multi-ethnic mix similar to contemporary Londoners, the Museum of London said on Monday. Two of the skeletons were of people likely born outside Britain - one of a man linked genealogically to eastern Europe and the Near East, the other of a teenage girl with blue eyes from north Africa...
...via South China Morning Post
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....this is the most epic interview we ever done, many thanks to all authors and Thomas A. Timmes for conducting the interview!
Today, we are extremely fortunate to present an interview with all seven distinguished authors of A Year of Ravens. Each of the authors answers the same seven questions, and, in the process, reveals their personality, wit, and knowledge. I think you will enjoy this!
...continue to the full interview of the authors of A Year of Ravens
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...for the average European, this is one hell of a scary picture, some of you guys are nuts, seriously lol (shes in Congress)
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Yup, main stream media is not really what it once was, Twitter is much more "real", "live" and "raw"
btw. whats up with the urge of US americans to shoot at each other with assault rifles??
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...while I understands some of his points, I have difficulties when someone arguing about somethning he hasnt seen,
...unlike Ursus who watched it and wrote a brilliant review...
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The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity by G. Kalas
Book Review by Ian Hughes
Recently, there has been a growth of interest in and publication of books about Late Antiquity. This has been stimulated to a large extent by a growth in the publication of many of the difficult primary sources concerning the period, usually with an accompanying commentary. However, there is one small problem that lies at the core of any study of the period: the sources contain a limited amount of information and what little there is has been analysed and debated for a very long time.
The net result is that there is little new that can be found with which to reassess the events of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. It may be possible to augment our knowledge with other evidence, and the most obvious alternative is archaeology. Yet there are problems with this, the most obvious and frustrating being that archaeology can rarely give dates within a small time frame, even less an exact year. Recent archaeological excavations in the Roman Forum and its surrounds are different...
...continue to the full review of The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity by G. Kalas
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...thanks to Thomas A. Timmes we also had a chance to get an interview with all 7 authors. This interview will be online in a day or two! Thanks Thomas!
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A Year of Ravens: a novel of Boudica's Rebellion by various authors
Book Review by Thomas A. Timmes
A Year of Ravens is one of those memorable books that will live on in your imagination for years to come. Each scene, written with exquisite skill, vivid imagery, and attention to detail, is reminiscent of the best motion picture moments that we enjoy over and over.
Year of Ravens is written by seven distinguished authors (Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray, Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear Shecter, S.J.A. Turney, and Russell Whitfield) who among them have published over 130 books. Each author writes a single chapter, but rather than a disjointed and distracting change in style and wording, the chapters flow together seamlessly. Each chapter is a showpiece of imagery, composition, and imagination. The reader sees and feels the action as it unfolds...
...continue to the full review of A Year of Ravens: a novel of Boudica's Rebellion by various authors
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We had a gap in our history story between Caracalla and Macrinus so we filled it with a great new article, with lots of titbits some would not associate Caracalla with, like he is one of the reasons that 1000 years later Byzantines would still call themselves "Romans"....
Caracalla after the murder of Geta
In the short term the death of Geta weakened rather than strengthened the rule of Caracalla. The people were upset both by the crime of fratricide, and by the fear that the divine punishment for that crime might involve the rest of the empire as collateral damage. The army were upset, because the soldiers had sworn allegiance to both brothers. The senate, while not deeply disturbed by the death of Geta, was dismayed by the loss of so many of its members in the subsequent purge.
...to the full article of Caracalla after the murder of Geta
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I am happy to announce that finally forum notifications via email are working again. Whenever you get a private message or a reply to a subscribed thread, you will get an email notification (to your email adress you signed up to)!
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Brutus: Caesar's Assassin by Kirsty Corrigan
Review by caldrail
Enough talk. The time to take action had arrived. Those involved in the conspiracy had plotted and schemed for some time, taking great care to weed out the unreliable or uncommitted. Now the Tyrant must be removed and if that meant his death, then so be it. One man approaches the Tyrant on petty business, and when dismissed haughtily, instead grabs him firmly.There is no going back. The Tyrant realizes something is dreadfully wrong. He'd been warned this would be a dangerous time; even his wife had implored him not to attend this meeting. But now the conspiracy rush forward with daggers drawn. A desperate scuffle breaks out as conspirators stab wildly, hurting each other in their frenzied assault upon their victim. Unable to fend off the attack, the Tyrant finally gives up and slumps to the floor, covering his face with his cloak in one last gesture of vanity. His body would be found beneath the statue of a murdered rival...
continue to the full review of Brutus: Caesar's Assassin by Kirsty Corrigan
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Archaeologist Sarah Parcak, a specialist in Egyptology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has just been announced as the 2016 TED Prize winner. An annual award, the TED Prize goes to just one exceptional person who uses the funding to launch a high-impact project. And at the 2016 TED conference in February, Parcak will be discussing her project, which will include identifying and protecting archaeological sites in the Middle East and around the globe using satellite imagery...
...via Forbes
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fascinating article!
In hindsight, Constantine’s victory does look like a watershed. One year later, 313 A.D., with a Christian now living in Caesar’s palace, Christianity would be granted legal status (the so-called Edict of Milan). According to the standard interpretation, Constantine’s vocal support for his new faith virtually ensured pagan Rome would morph into a Christian empire. Over the next half century, sacrifice would be outlawed, temples locked. Christian demographics would swell, as Romans — perhaps more than 50% of the empire by the mid 4th century, according to Rodney Stark — abandoned their tired traditions. (For context, the number of Christians during Constantine’s day is estimated at 10 percent).
Unfortunately, there is a lot missing from this picture. Christian visibility did increase everywhere after Constantine’s victory, from Jerusalem to Spain. The fourth century A.D. was also a time of church councils, at Arles, Nicaea, and Serdica, meetings attended by opinionated bishops. Indeed, because of the sheer amount of this surviving Christian evidence, it really can look — for scholars interested in early Christianity — as if the whole Roman world had changed with one man’s conversion. Yet new evidence suggests Romans did not leave their traditions behind as quickly as once thought.
The archaeological record from some of the most well-documented cities, like Ostia outside Rome, shows that traditional religion remained a vibrant part of urban and domestic life during this time. The most recent study of the religious identity of Roman senators also suggests that, when it came to embracing Christianity, the majority of that august body remained committed to “paganism” for most of the fourth century. Even with Constantine’s conversion — and the remarkable fact that a Christian was now serving openly as the head of state — Christians remained a minority religion for much longer than people suspected.
full article at Medium.com
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Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards
Review by Thomas A. Timmes
Death in Ancient Rome is not a casual weekend beach read! This is a scholarly book written for academics and serious students of Roman history. I doubt it would hold much appeal to the general public. I found the 18 page Introduction with its multiple compound sentences, qualifying statements, parenthetical phrases, and sheer wordiness to be profoundly challenging. By comparison, the remaining 201 pages were enjoyable, informative, and easy to read. Catharine Edwards is certainly qualified to undertake the daunting task of sifting through the writings of ancient authors to discover Roman attitudes towards death and dying. As a professor of classics and ancient history at Birkbeck College, University of London, she specializes in Roman cultural history and Latin prose literature...
...continue to the full review of Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards
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...fascinating stuff, thaks for sharing!
I found a video from him on Youtube regarding rubbish in Pompeii
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Hello everyone! Please see below the new releases of November 2015.
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta by Paul Anthony Rahe
Damasus of Rome: The Epigraphic Poetry by Dennis Trout
The Restoration of the Roman Forum in Late Antiquity by Gregor Kalas
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
Arminius the Liberator: Myth and Ideology by Martin M. Winkler
Roman Reflections: Studies in Latin Philosophy by Gareth D. Williams
Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy by Ellen Meiksins Wood
The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy by Alain Bresson
The Union of Isis and Thoth: Magic and Initiatory Practices of Ancient Egypt by Normandi Ellis
The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome by John Scheid
Rome: The First Book of Foundations by Michel Serres
The Anglo-Saxon Age: The Birth of England by Martin Wall
Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers by Rob Collins
Trajan's Column by Frank Leppard
From Pompeii: The Afterlife of a Roman Town by Ingrid D. Rowland
Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC by Charlotte R. Potts
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...not sure about Germany but in Austria it might be Bregenz.
The first settlements date from 1500 BC. Celtic tribe named Brigantii is mentioned by Strabo as a sub-tribe in these region of the Alps. In the 5th century BC, the Celts settled at Brigantion, which was one of their most heavily fortified locations. After battles in 15 BC, the Romans conquered Brigantion and the city became a Roman camp. It was conferred the status of a municipality (Brigantium) around 50 AD and was the seat of the Roman admiralty for Lake Constance.
Bregenz is still around today and even the capital of the Austrian province "Vorarlberg", classic music and theater lovers might now it from the Bregenz Festival
p.s. and even though Bregenz is quite far south it still is east of the Rhine
here a link to google maps so people know where it is
intersting fact; in that region people speak allemanic German unlike the rest of Austria that speaks bavarian German
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...our latest article in the Roman Emperor series focus on Caracallas brother Geta, enjoy...
The defining moment of Geta's life happened eleven months before he was born. This was when his brother Lucius Bassianus (the future emperor Caracalla) was born to Geta's parents, Domna Julia and Septimius Severus. During the period when both brothers were born, Septimius Severus was an imperial functionary in the court of the emperor Commodus, the last of Rome's Antonine dynasty. Due to the demands of the imperial service, Lucius Bassianus was born while his father was serving in Gaul, and on 7 March 189, Geta was born in Milan, Italy. (This birthplace is recorded in the 'Life of Geta' in the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, which proves its unreliability by saying in the 'Life of Septimius Severus' that Geta was born in Rome.)
...continue to the full article of Roman Emperor Geta - Publius Septimius Geta Augustus
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Question i received via mail, maybe you guys can help...
Good Morning
I would like to have your opinion on the following question :
This intaglio (attached below) is said to me to be an intaglio's roman legionary ring :
What do you think about that? Which Legion ? Is This intaglio a replica, a copy ?
Thank you for your opinion
Best regards
François M.
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A vast underground passageway that allowed Rome’s emperors to pass unseen from their hilltop palaces to the Forum will open to the public for the first time on Wednesday. The 2,000-year-old “imperial ramp” descended from the top of the Palatine Hill to the temples, market places and courts of the Forum below, from where the Roman Empire was governed. Lit by torches and protected by guards, the passageway, with 11-metre-high ceilings, was so vast that emperors could have comfortably passed through it on horseback...
...via National Post
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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
Review by Nick Brown
Authors, publishers and readers are always on the lookout for new concepts and surely no one could deny the appeal of Natalie Haynes’ book from 2010. It sets out to draw parallels between the modern and ancient worlds and does so in a lively, thoughtful manner. In eight chapters, the author – a classics scholar and stand up comedian no less - examines politics, law, philosophy, religion, women, town and country, entertainment and money. The introduction outlines Haynes’ ‘obsession’ with the ancient world and her knowledge and passion are evident throughout the ensuing two hundred and sixty pages...
...continue to the review of The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
THE ROMAN WALL
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Brought up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John Collingwood Bruce (1805-92) was fascinated by the antiquities of the north of England, and made an especial study of the impressive ruins of the 'Roman Wall'. He published this work in 1851, using both the writings of medieval and recent historians, and his own and others' field surveys and excavations. It describes the route of the wall from the Solway to Wallsend, and the surviving structures such as forts and milecastles along its length. Bruce also discusses and illustrates the Roman artefacts discovered around the wall, from pottery and nails to funerary monuments, which give insights into the lives of the soldiers from across the Roman empire who were stationed at this northern outpost. His argument that Hadrian was the builder of the wall reminds us that, until the mid-nineteenth century, it was thought to have been the idea of the later emperor Septimius Severus.
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