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Thanks man ! That's all I needed to know .

That's a great strategy game indeed ! Eventhough my pc isnt' that old it's crashing after 10 min. of playing plus it's very slow when it's coming up to the videos !! grrrrr....

Well that's a possibility too , I thought Numidians were more west . I'm not sure at all that's why I've posted this question ! Thanks

Look here in the bottom line

I agree with the last post . Byzantio was a different story , more Greek than Roman....through the years ofcourse !

Rameses are the Armenians Kopts ?? I know that they're very close to the orthodoxy but I'm not quite sure.. Thanks !

That's a really cool letter ! Bravo !

?Does anybody knows?

Personally I'm not sure about it... Anyone who could help ?

God bless his soul....

Forza Italia !

That's really great !

The greatest of all , Caligula (!)

That's a very interesting link indeed ! A little bit confusing though up to some point..

Welcome !

Greek=Macedonian and vice versa ! There is no Athenian religion or Macedonian religion or Spartan religion.... They were all Greek dodecatheists !

Wellcome

Emperor Neron .

Tend to agree , I think it was Theodosios too..

Constantine is perhaps best known for being the first Roman Emperor to freely allow Christianity. Christian historians ever since Lactantius have adhered to the view that Constantine "adopted" Christianity as a kind of replacement for the official Roman polytheism. Though he was not baptized until he was on his deathbed, his conversion, according to the sources, was the immediate result of an omen before his victory in the Battle of Milvian Bridge, on October 28, 312. Upon seeing this vision, Constantine is said to have instituted a new standard to be carried into battle called the labarum. This vision seen by Constantine was made up of two events. Firstly, while marching with his soldiers he saw the shape of an ambigram cross with the words "in this sign you will conquer" in front of the sun. After seeing that he had a dream instructing him to put a new sign as the standard. It is said that after this event Constantine was immediately converted to Christianity. Constantine and Licinius' Edict of Milan removed penalties for professing Christianity, under which many were martyred in previous persecutions of Christians, and returned confiscated Church property. After the Edict, new avenues were opened to Christians, including the right to compete with pagan Romans in the traditional cursus honorum for high government positions, and greater acceptance into general civil society. New churches were allowed to be constructed and Christian leadership became increasingly bold

In later years of Constantine, historical facts were clouded by legend. It was considered inappropriate that Constantine was baptized only on his death-bed and by a bishop of questionable orthodoxy, and hence a legend emerged that Pope Silvester I (314-335) had cured the pagan Emperor from leprosy. According to this legend, Constantine was baptized after that and donated buildings to the Pope. In the 8th century, a document called the "Donation of Constantine" first appeared, in which the freshly converted Constantine hands the temporal rule over Rome, Italy and the Occident to the Pope. In the High Middle Ages, this document was used to and accepted as the basis for the Pope's temporal power, though it was denounced as a forgery by Emperor Otto III and lamented as the root of papal worldliness by the poet Dante Alighieri...

The modern English word Greek derives from Latin Graecus, which in turn comes from Greek Γραικός (Graikos), the name of a Boeotian tribe that migrated to Italy in the 8th century BC, and it is by that name the Hellenes were known by in the West. Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a Boeotian city named Graea,and Pausanias mentions that Graea was the name of the ancient city of Tanagra.Cumae, a city lying to the west of Neapolis and south of Rome, was founded by Cymaeans and Chalkideans as well as Graeans who by coming into contact with Romans may very well be responsible for naming all Hellenic speaking tribes Graeci. The modern Italian city of Grai was also founded in antiquity by Graeans. Aristotle, our oldest source mentioning the word, states that a natural cataclysm swept across central Epirus, a land where its inhabitants used to be called γραικοί (Graeci) (Γραικοί) and were later named Hellenes (Έλληνες).In mythology, Graecus is a cousin of Latinus, and the word seems to be related with γηραιός (geraius, anile), which was the title given to the priests of Dodona. They were also named Σελλοί (Selloi)

Great game indeed !

Do you mean that today's Hellas and Ellines are "invented" by the West ?

exactly , used the term "greek" as it is international , Greece and just a few countries continue to use the term Hellas or Hellenic which is definetely the correct one .