Klingan
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Stunning.
Would love to know more about the logistics of how you got there, where you stopped, could it be combined with a trip to Ephesus, etc.
I took a buss (45 turkish lira, so ca 20
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Twilight of the Hellenistic world. Review coming up soon!
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You're right Klingan, it was really a wild safari-trip to get to Villa Arianna and Villa San Marco. From our campsite in Sorrento (pretty nice view at the Vesuvio) it should have been about 15 minutes to get there,
but I found myself driving around in circles at 40
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It's tricky but it's roman... This specific building seems to have been in use until the 6th century AD and the time of the Avars invasion.
Damn that's why I have no clue what it is - anything post 235 and I'm lost
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I was thinking about keeping you in the dark about my trip to Pergamon but then again, I'm sure that:
1: it would be so damn obvious which site is anyways
2: it would be much nicer to show you more than just one picture.
I will update the album as I find the spare time.
Under the temple of Asclepius!
The sacred road to the sanctuary of Asclepius.
And looking back towards the acropolis. You can actually see the theater and temple of Trajan up there!
Sanctuary of Asclepius.
Behind the temple of Trajan.
Under the temple of Trajan.
And the theater of course!
I apologize for the fact that some of the pictures are slightly unsharp here, it has to do with how the site is compressing the files. :hammer:/>
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I agree with the two posts above, Oplontis is a must see! And a word of advice to that. A lot of people want to visit Stabia, which I did 2011. It is a (number of) site(s) but you have really seen everything it has to offer just by visiting Oplontis. Not to mention that it is exceedingly difficult to get to Stabia so you'll probably end up just looking for it a whole day.
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Hmmm the Bulgarian one is tricky, and I've never even been to the country. But the masonry style is quite different from what you would normally expect to find in a Roman context, that should be able to help us on our way.
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This is just getting better and better, eh?
Anyways, I'm thinking about copying your concept here, I just need to find something suitable to talk about.
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Even if they didn't use the term I suspect at least one of the references will be to what is usually called a 'bodkin' style arrowhead. This is actually named after a long, very sharp but also very narrow medieval period dagger called a 'bodkin' although examples of such arrowheads do pre-date the medieval with several known Roman examples.
Yep, that was exactly what they were talking about! Thanks!
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Chainmail is very heavy though, so it has it's disadvantages too. I believe the auxialia wore the chainmail. How well would chain hold up against an arrow/spear?
I happened to read an article today by a German scholar who had actually tried shooting arrows at both a segmentata and Chain mails. The result was that the kinds of arrows we think about (flat shaped like a V, sort of) were useless - they couldn't penetrate neither chain mail nor segmentata (1,5 mm thick). Thin "needle" arrows weren't much more efficient, a few of them got through the chain mail but just barley and could not cause any real harm to the (doll) legionary. The Segmentata was just dented.
What rally surprised me was that a thicker type of needle arrow head (and I don't remember the name of it), almost pyramidal in shape, did penetrate the chain mail completely and would have killed the user, while just denting or very barely penetrating the segmentata.
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Outstanding stuff, thank you. Pity English isn't your first language...
You are kidding, right?!
Not sure if he's joking or not, but you wouldn't believe how much assessing if your a native speaker or not depends on if people think that you are a native speaker or not; I've been hanging out with people for hours only to get asked about what we eat for Halloween in Australia (I'm from Sweden). At other times, someone who knows that I'm not a native speaker will complain loudly about my poor pronunciation.
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Quote right - it is the Arles Cryptoporticus (well done Bryaxis Hecatee). It is an unusually large space below the forum. Structurally it was almost certainly built to give a level surface to the forum on otherwise sloping ground, and so may have been at least partly above ground when first built (mainly depending on what else was built around it, I suppose). No-one knows to what purpose it was put.
Puh, really gave me a scare there, thought I had lost my mind for a bit as I read that it really was a cryptoportico. Last line saved me
This structure might perhaps be compared to the cellar space under the Baths of Neptune in Ostia?
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Arles' cryptoportic ?
It can't be a cryptoportic, at least not of the classical kind. Looks all wrong :/
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Donno what it is but I sure like it!
Gonna see if I can find out later -
This is great, I really enjoyed it! Thanks you very very much!
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Haha, I would definitively fear a battle line drawn up by those guys! Damn they're fast.
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A great proofreader!
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Luckily or possibly unluckily when I tried to follow the links Klingan had provided above from this PC they all went to the same top level search screen.
I ended up having to copy and paste the search into a new windows - and yes my eyes are watering with some of the images - not for the young
Ah! It's actually better like that, I don't want anyone to hit them links by mistake! I hope it's not too much. Then again, this kind of stuff is hidden on purpose by modern Greece. it may be though to see, even disturbing, but it was a very important part of the ancient culture in the area. The Greeks were not all philosophers.
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Very much so! But even though there are some similarities between the modern and ancient symposia, I'm not so sure if Sokrates (or Xenophon) would even realize that they were attending one if they could come to one today! Ancient symposia were much more, ehm, drinking heavy. I sort of imagine a frat party. But worse. Much worse.
THIS LINK CONTAINS MATERIAL NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS. BE WARNED
A symposium in the ancient world could end up like this.
THIS LINK CONTAINS MATERIAL NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS. BE WARNED
Or why not by urinating from your while still lying on your cline?
Or this. (Puking)
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I tried it out quite a number of times but it was empty most of the time.
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Real cool news! I was almost sure that they would never find another one
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Caldril is making a great point here, cavalry is as much about psychological warfare as physical strength. I mean, how fun is it, standing there with a pike, even when trained to do so, if you know that the horse will run straight into it, die, roll over and crush you, no matter what happens...
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Has more posts on this forum than 99.6% of our members!
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I believe that Viggen would be able to answer a lot of your questions, but he might become terribly nostalgic at the same time
Pergamon (Klingans Photo Album)
in Vacatio
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The over night buses weren't half bad actually. There was a near disaster incident (HUGE turkish man fell asleep next to me, started to lean towards my shoulder almost dropping his half eaten kebab on me) but I was saved by some company official. Other than that, I slept like a baby. Even better than flights in many ways.
Now I don't know where you'll start from but I bought my tickets near Taksim square in Istanbul (and I can provide you with a map if you need one) and just rolled on after that, buying tickets as I needed one. No online messing around what so ever. Over night buses between Izmir and Istanbul normally leaves at between 10 and 11 pm.
One warning though! Finding buses is no problem what so ever as soon as you get to a big central bus hub, but getting to and from that hub can be tricky. I ended up taking a cab.