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  1. Philhellene
    It`s an amazing fact that among the Arabian coins we can find the ones with portraits of Greek Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors. I guess that the Arabs just restruck the reverses of these coins, but I still have the question: why they didn`t do the same thing with obverses? If of course they actually restruck them. Here is the example: http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/islam/artuqid/artuqid.html
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    The date is the same , the name is the same... I think the names are different.
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    I`m trying to say that we almost don`t have any sources about early Roman history besides literary ones. You don't know about Poplios Valesius of Satricum ? Here - We even don`t know if "Popliosio Valesiosio " is Roman or not. It is almost nothing.
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    The famous painting from Vulci about the Vipinas brothers (6 th century) This fresco was found in 1857 in the Francois tomb and now it is dated 340-310 BC (see Cristofani M. Richerche sulle pitture della tomba Francois a Vulc i// Dialoghi di Archeologia. Vol. I, 2. 1967. P. 186 ss.). the inscription about popilius Valesius Sorry, I haven`t found anything about it, even in RE. the Gabii treaty Sorry, but now there are no any remains of this thing, described by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. So once again we have only literary sources. So, it so fell out that all your evidences are very late or just don`t exist at the present time.
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    Some examples About the evidence - the Curia Hostilia was attributed (by Livius and Dyonisius) to Tulus Hostilius . The Archeologists dated this building to the Middle of the 6th century . The Regia was attributed (by Livius and other ancients) to Numa Pompilius . the Archeologists dated this building to the beginning of the 6th century or to the last years of the 7th So what? That means that Numa or other kings didn`t build that? Or maybe each of them just didn`t rule 50 years? The famous painting from Vulci about the Vipinas brothers (6 th century) , the Gabii treaty (late 6th century) , the inscription about popilius Valesius (late 6th century) Would you give some refferences about all these things? Emperor Claudius speech about Mastrana (in Tacitus annales and inscription in Leon Gaul) Claudius? I AD century emperor? Why do you think Tacitus is better than Livius` narratives. The Method has to be a combination of materials . But your information about Etruscan exile seems not to be based on any kind of sources.
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    You have so much a confidence in the ancient sources . And do you have any other sources of information about early Roman history? Maybe inscriptions or papyri? Or even coins?
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    They say that the Etruscans were expelled from Rome at the end of the tyrany Who says that? I don`t know about Etruscans, according to ancient sources (Livius, Plutarch and Dionysius) all relatives of king Tarquinius were expelled, not all Etruscans. Var. 509 Lucius Iunius Brutus (a son of Tarquinia) and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus That`s why Tarquinius Collatinus abdicated the title of consul and left Rome, and he was replaced by suffectus Valerius.
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    Well , we find Etruscan and even Tarquinian names ! Where did you find them?
  9. Philhellene
    We do not know who wrote the S.H.A (a big debate for more than 100 years) so we have doubts about its materials . Their sources are, for example, Marius Maximus and Dexippus, we know them from other authors, not only from SHA.
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    It's after the absence of other detailed ancient sources that its credibility spirals into the historical abyss. I can`t understand why? Why Suetonius is more reliable than SHA? Or even Eutropius or Orosius? They are not very detailed.
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    In Russian historical science
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    I don`t think that Latin grammar could help in this case.
  13. Philhellene
    I tried to download it, but this file didn`t exist. What was it?
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    Is this some kind of virus? exe-file... I have all works of Constantine in Greek, but it is very hard for me to translate it, I can do it, but only "De sententiis" gives 191 fragments of Peter`s lost work. The fragments of Dio Cassius were very helpful, so that`s very exciting to know that Constantine saved his continuator.
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    Peter is also known as Anonymous Continuator of Dio Cassius.
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    Does anybody have English or French translation of "De sententiis" or "De cerimoniis" of Constantine Porphyrogenetus? I`m interested in excerpts from Peter Patricius (aka Magister).
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    This article is too brief and not very informative. Tobias didn`t mention Mauricius` parents and relatives, his son and co-emperor Theodosius... Then I can`t find any information about his military career before his accession to throne, about Persian campaigns, triumph... When he became Caesar or Augustus? When he was overthrown by Phocas? Why did Phocas rebel?
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    Why Mauritius? He`s Mauricius.
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    If it wasn't for dogma drunk monks there would probably be no lost books of Livy and Polybius, et al.. The same monks copied books of Livy and Polybius and kept them in thier libraries. Antique literature was destroyed not by Christians but by wars. Do you know about great Belgrad library that was completely burnt during the German bombing in 1940? I don`t know much about Dresden, but I think its libraries were burnt as well as Belgrad one.
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    <i>So, what about her?</i> Socrates says that she was killed by Petrus and his men because she had incited Alexandrian prefect Orestus against their bishop Cyril, but Cyril and Alexandrian church felt sorry about that murder (VII, 15); as for Philostorgius, he says that "she was torn in pieces by the Homoousian party (το ομοουσιον πρεσβευοντων)" (VIII, 9); according to John of Nikiu "multitude of believers in God arose under the guidance of Peter the magistrate" caught Hypatia, because she "had beguiled Orestus through her magic" and "he ceased attending church as had been his custom", Christians "brought her to the great church named Caesarion", then "they tare off her clothing and dragged her through the streets of the city till she died" (LXXXIV, 100-102).
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    I don`t agree. The Christians and Pagans killed each other during the public disorders in IV C, see for instance Rufinus, HE, II, 22. It was under the reign of Theodosius, in Alexandria. I can retell this fragment if you don`t have it.
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    By the way, when I was reading Malchus, I found out that anothet big library was burnt at the same time (I mean Vth C). It was Βασιλικα in Constantinople that consisted of 120 000 books. It happened during the fire in the city under the reign of Basiliscus (Malchus apud Zonaras, book XIII, I don`t know the exact chapter or page, my Zonaras doesn`t have it).
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    I would argue that after the destruction of the Library by the invading Islamist fanatics; Those who ruled took possession of the knowledge held their for centuries. Those who ruled in Egypt after Byzantines destroyed so many things from classical heritage of ancient Greeks ad Romans... An I`m not talking about Christian churches, but about ancient paintings and statues. But they hardly destroyed the remains of Alexandrian library, because it was already destroyed. By the way, the story about caliph Omar was told by Egyptian Arabian writer of XII or XIII century, it`s kind of legend.
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    Cato never liked Caesar.
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    It is well-known that Alexandrian bishop Theophilus is accused of the destruction of Serapeum. Paulus Orosius indirectly proves that when he`s talking about "emty book shelfs of Serapeum" (VI, 15, 31). We don`t know whether the whole library was burnt or not, but if Orosius saw book shelfs, I think some of the books were still there or they would have been burnt together with the books under Theodosius, because Christians turned Serapeum into the church, they didn`t need many book shelfs there. And I found the refference that the whole building of Serapeum was definitely burnt little later, in 452, at the time of public disorders. This story is told by Evagrius:
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