Gaius Paulinus Maximus
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I had a peek in and it looks like I just missed Klingan and Artimi. I was all alone in the chat room.
-- Nephele
Me too. I was there half an hour after them.
I went back later and encountered Octavius, Formosus, Artimi, and Crispina in the chat room. I have to say, it was quite a bit of fun.
-- Nephele
Quite a bit of fun???
Your already an Admin!!!! You don't mess around do you Neph!!
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I have once proposed that an URNV chat should be created but it was decided that there was no need for one. I would still like try it out though.
If there is an interest, we are open for discussion if we should implement one or not...
cheers
viggen
I've never been on a chat room before but I went in this one today and quite enjoyed it, Formosus was there plus another lady and we were chatting about Rome, football etc. It was pretty good to have the instant chat option. I don't know whether it would work here though, my one concern is that it might take people away from the forum and spend more time chatting instead of contributing to the board.
I don't know but could it not be done on maybe a few weeks trial period, see how it goes, if it's good and doesn't dramatically affect the forum and people enjoy it then keep it, if it isn't then bin it!!
I don't know how feasible this is?
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There's still some speculation about what exactly Materazzi said to Zidane but what ever it was and how ever bad it was what Zidane did was complete and utter madness. The moment Zidane flipped and nutted him the game was as good as won for the Italians, with France's most influential and arguably the best player in the world out of the game I as well as most of the fans watching could only see one winner.
Whenever Zidane has a moment to himself he must re-live that moment of madness over and over again in his head. What a silly silly boy!!!
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I've just dropped in for a chat but there doesn't appear to be anyone around.
Never mind!
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From then on it was all 'catenaccio' for us. We thought that was Italian for 'break their legs by any means you can'.
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Hehe - I love it! I have always had a penchant for Claudio Gentile - the Juventus/Azzurri defender who made damned sure that if he got a yellow card, the other fella went off on a stretcher! They're all pussies today.
His surname certainly makes a mockery of the way he played football
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Any clue on how do we know this Scythian guy is a king?
Maybe his attire?? I'm just guessing here but I doubt the regular Scythian soldier would be able to afford such an elaborate torc, it does look like something only the extremely wealthy would wear???
Maybe he's just a wealthy nobleman or maybe he's just a soldier or maybe he really is a king??? I suppose only Albert can shed some light on it and tell us where he copied his drawing from?
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Finally it's turned up!!!
Vol III issue 3, I must say I'm very impressed with the magazine, very colourful, well written. This months featured articles are...... Classical heroes: the warrior in history and legend, The seven against Thebes, divine battle frenzy, the reality of Hyginus' Roman army and Machines of war.
I think I'll probably be taking out the full subscription.
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Very nice work Albert, Caracalla is excellent.
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I've not seen the Battle of Santiago before, so thanks for that FV, some of those tackles were unbelievable, especially the flying kung fu kick to the head!!!!
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Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of ancient Roman treasures, including a marble head of the Roman emperor Titus, during an excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples. The long-term digging effort in Rione Terra, a cliff in the port town of Pozzuoli, has yielded remains of 12 ancient statues, columns and fragments bearing inscriptions from what appear to be monuments from the Republican and Imperial periods of ancient Roman history
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/24/t...ble-naples.html
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Fabius Cunctator's purple mohawk never really caught on though ...
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rmosusNeither did Caesar's handlebar moustache, didn't you know that Freddie Mercury modeled himself on an early picture of Gaius Julius Caesar!!!
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Nice video FV, If that's what it takes to get chicks like Carmen Electra dancing for you then I'm never going to shave again!!!!
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Would it be reasonable to assume, then, that Africanus may have started a trend? Because the evidence from statues and busts shows a penchant for close shaving in the later Republic.
I think it would be very reasonable to assume that Scipio started a trend. I'm sure there will have been other lesser known Romans who preferred the shaved style too but because Scipio was probably the most famous Roman of his time then I think it's pretty safe to say that people looked up to him and wanted to imitate his style. Scipio probably didn't do it to start a trend it was just a personal preference but as with fashion today however ridiculous something looks you can guarantee that within a couple of weeks you'll see people walking about the streets with the same hairstyle or out fit on and before you know it near enough every one's doing it.
Take David Beckham for instance, he's got to be one of the biggest fashion icons of our time, some of the styles he's had have at first looked a bit ridiculous and over the top but after a while you start to see it repeated everywhere. If Beckham likes it then it must be good, right????
Whether it be ancient times or modern, people will always want to be like their hero's.
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Nice review Neil.
I'm still waiting for my first copy to drop through my letterbox, after reading the review I wish it would bloody hurry up!!!
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This is very interesting for me because I do a lot of work on Tesco's especially the new builds so hopefully I might get to spend some time at the Newtown site. I might dust my trowel off and offer my services during my lunch break!!!!!!
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The book that really did it for me was "The History of Rome" by Michael Grant a pretty challenging read for a beginner but even so, brilliant for learning about Rome from it's founding all the way through to it's demise in the 5th Century.
It's a good book to keep going back to every few years, the more you learn the more the book makes sense and comes together.
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The Romans in early times wore long hair and full beards, as did uncivilized peoples. Varro tells us that professional barbers first came to Rome in the year 300 B.C., but we know that the razor and shears were used by the Romans long before history begins. Pliny the Elder says that the Younger Scipio (died 129 B.C.) was the first Roman to shave every day, and the story may be true. People of wealth and position had the hair and beard kept in order by their own slaves; these slaves, if they were skillful barbers, brought high prices in the market. People of the middle class went to public barber shops, and gradually made them places of general resort for the idle and the gossiping. But in all periods the hair and beard were allowed was a sign of sorrow, and were the regular accompaniments of the mourning garb already mentioned. The very poor went usually unshaven and unshorn; this was the cheap and easy fashion.
Styles of wearing hair and beard varied with the years of the persons concerned and with the period. The hair of children, boys and girls alike, was allowed to grow long and hang around the neck and shoulders. When the boy assumed the togaof manhood, the long locks were cut off, sometimes with a good deal of formality, and under the Empire they were often made an offering to some deity.
In the classical period young men seem to have worn close-clipped beards; at least Cicero jeers at those who followed Catiline for wearing full beards, and on the other hand declares that their companions who could show no signs of beard on their faces were worse than effeminate. Mature men wore the hair cut short and the face shaved clean. Most of the portraits that have come down to us
show beardless men until well into the second century of our era, but after the time of Hadrian the full beard became fashionable.
(Taken from Johnston's Private Life of the Romans.)
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I've just ordered a trial three month subscription, so I'll let you know how good it is when it arrives.
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Rome's underground Christian, Jewish and pagan burial sites, the Catacombs, date back to the 2nd Century AD. There are more than 40 of them stretching over 170km (105 miles).
But, until now, they have never been fully documented, their vast scale only recorded with handmade maps. That is now changing, following a three-year project to create the first fully comprehensive three-dimensional image using laser scanners.
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I'm going to give everyone a few days to take a look at it before I try, it would be nice if some other people wanted to play the game as well.
Believe me I do want to play but the only thing stopping me is that I'm totally crap at it!!
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Of course their was a + but it was hard to save much of it, as it was in later periods ( think napoleonic soldiers or even modern soldiers, who often have to buy equipement with their own money because standard issued equipement is outdated or broken ). Then came wine, extra food, money for the family if one had been created, etc. So in the end not so much money was saved. Thus any donatium (gift) or any money raised from pillage was a good thing for the soldiers.
Also you'd have to look at the mind set of many of the soldiers, there was a very high percentage that you wouldn't even live to see your retirement or enjoy the money you'd been saving so what was the point?? Carpe Diem, seize the day, live for the moment etc.
It safe to say that many of the soldiers had come from nothing and were enjoying it while they could, I'm sure that saving it for a rainy day would have been the last thing on your mind when the next day you could be going into battle and never coming back.
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November 07??? Bloody hell has it been that long since we played this game???
Go on then K, it's your turn!
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?...9413623#9413623 does that adress your issue, if not i think there you are in good hands...
cheers
viggen
Thanks a lot for this Vig. It's been a great help.
I've near enough got all my music back into my iTunes now, it's a bit of a farce doing it, god knows why Apple wont let you do it direct, it would make things much easier, instead I've had to download some other software, copy my iPod to that and then from that copy my music to my computer and then from my computer to my iPod library
Talk about a backward way of doing it!!
Thanks again Vig, much appreciated.
Gracchi as demogogues or revolutionaries?
in Res Publica
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Chapters two and three of The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla by A.H. Beesley would be a good place to start. It looks at both of the brothers individually and attempts to analyze their careers and their attempted reforms.