Klingan

Very true, and you can still the traces all over Italy, especially in Rome itself (fasces, the removed empire map, EUR, Foro Italico etc.).

Very interesting, thank you for posting it. Which epigram is it? Sorry to say, but the anti-immigrant lobby has got a point here, Cicero came damn close to destroying Rome for me!

Well caught Ursus!

Oh no, this was all over the news a while ago. Still nobody has got any clue what it might be, although everyone seems to assume (as the boring swedes we are) that it's simply a natural formation of some sort.

I just noticed that the Vesuvius eruption took place only one day after the Volcanalia should have been celebrated. I think we all understand what was going on that fateful year of 79 and we need a big big party to make sure that we won't suffer the same fate as them unpious Pompeian scumbags! What do we need to sacrifice?

Raetia: C. M. Wells, The German Policy of Augustus (1972). There are a lot more if you try German literature.

someone remembers my old blog! I should perhaps consider posting stuff there again.

So maybe some of the American legions should withdraw to northern America? I'm sure that a large number of countries wouldn't mind. Ok, sorry, that was a bad joke, but I simply can't find any serious response to a text like this.

I would very much like to recommend that you talk to a professor of Latin in this mater - things can go very very wrong when translating Latin without proper understanding of the language. I have seen the most dreadful mistakes being engraved, carved and tattooed.

Welcome Falacer!

Well, I'm not 100% sure (since the article doesn't really tell) but it seems to me that the pit was found in well. Now, I'm doing my phd on cisterns in Greece and trust me when i tell you, there is just about no such thing as a safe context from a well or cistern. Sometimes they are filled by material from old dumps, sometimes they stay empty for centuries when not in use. Sometimes they are left half filled for a few hundred years and then another fill is added on top. It's, from out perspective, completely random. Not to mention the degree to which materials tend to wander in these contexts... A single pit hardly tells us anything here. Unfortunately.

Great news. Wish they would add some information on the game thou.

Out of curiosity, would you know to whom and how far back? And what are your sources? I though the Savoy family only went back to the 11th century or so. Very interesting. You're making a great point here. Expanding the view to the eastern empire would most likely increase the chances, well at the least significantly.

Hello, First of all, welcome to the board! I hope that you will enjoy it. In regards to your questions; I cannot help much (as my books are at my office) but I would suggest that you take a look at the letters of Pliny the younger. I reckon that he is describing his work at the courts quite often. These trials will, of course, be of Roman citizens but you might very well find references to other proceedings as a point of comparison, as well as in absentia arguments. His letters are also well worth reading just for the enjoyment of his world descriptions and thoughts.

The teaching company has got an excellent selection too!

I don't even know what to say.

Thanks, Klingan, although I've had another book of hers in my library that was pretty good, I don't' get the impression that I'd get much out of this one (on triumphs). The reviews that I've read all said that it was largely deconstructionist, and what I'm doing now is simply looking at literary accounts (Josephus on Vespasian's, and others on Pompey's in 61 BC) and seeing what they have to say. Deconstruction is really the word - the book would tell you much more about source criticism than anything else. Anyway, another further reading; you could take a look into the works of Ida

You could always read Mary Beard's The Roman Triumph if you want to more know about the phenomena. Or perhaps know less to be honest - the book goes through an awful lot of what do we know and what we and Hollywood just made up. Good read, although it's almost predictable in the end.

I guess not, they should be called tegulae tubuli and not fit "into" each other, but rather on top of. Then again, I have seen tubuli used in vaults.

Could it be that the Romans held tubi fittili under a trade ban? Pure speculation from me though.

Seeing that poster, this could be the most epic (ally bad) thing I've seen in a while. I should start stockpiling popcorn.

And I thought Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was weird.

Very well done! I would just to see such a time line for the Greek world as well. I'll be back with some comments later! (Ps. I'm moving this to Trajans market, leaving a link in the original forum, no harm done!)

Can't wait to get my hands on this! http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199545568.do

I just found the title disturbing! But thanks god, getting rid of cash would be nice. I am probably, due to my temporary living arrangements, the last swede in the world who needs a 10 kr coin (about 1