Gaius Paulinus Maximus

Quite an amazing dicovery! 'Lucy's baby' actually lived 100,000 years before 'Lucy', who was discovered in 1974. Lucy was named after the Beatle's song ' Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' which was playing on the radio as she was dug up. Lucy was only 3ft 8in tall - while the new bundle of bones takes up no more space than a large melon

It's a great day for Leeds United :thumbs_up: Our cluless manager has bit the bullet :2guns: :giljotiini: Kevin Blackwell is no more Who's next i wonder, there's been a few names touted around already Alan Curbishly........... Glen Hoddle.............. Dennis Wise.............. Claudio Ranieri.......... :thumbs_up: Sven Goran Erikson......

Haha nice clip Cato "I just banged you sister".................. curse you Paleologos!!!

Here's some more gem's from old brain box Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts I am neither especially clever or especially gifted. I am only very, very, curious. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstien

Here's a modern picture of a true Roman using the salute http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4163979.stm He got into quite a bit of trouble after this incident and may have even been banned for a number of games

While browsing through Pertinax's Hbo Rome gallery i came across this picture http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...si&img=1272 In the background of this scene is a statue of a horse, now i'm just wondering if this is the very charger that Suetonius speaks of in 'The Twelve Caesars' and was also brought up in a thread not so long back in which we came to the conclusion that this horse probably never existed and was just part of Suetonius' story telling? Here's the thread http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4751 What do you think?

Haha how could i have forgotten about dear old Santa Claus, :wheelchair: He came in and saved the club from liquidation, so as far as i'm concerned he's in my good books...................... for now! Oh and by the way it's very nice to meet you too

I think you're misunderstanding the events completely. There was no plot to kill Pompey. The "plot" was a complete (and laughably absurd) fabrication. For example, Vettius claimed that to kill Pompey, he was given a dagger by Bibulus, as if Vettius couldn't have found one on his own without the consul's supplying him one! Moreover, Bibulus had earlier saved Pompey from an attack by assassins, for which Pompey had thanked him. The outstanding questions are: who invented this fabrication? who could have benefitted from it? and why was the fabrication put forward when it was? For what it's worth, there have been two scholarly articles on this topic: McDermott, W. C. (1949). Vettius Ille, Illne Noster Index. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 80, 351-367. Allen, W. (1950). The "Vettius Affair" once more. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 81, 153-163. (If you PM me, I'd be happy to send you a copy of each.) You can judge the evidence for yourself, but both articles take Caesar to be complicit in the affair, either as an accessory after the fact (e.g., by twisting Vettius' arm to drop the charge against young Brutus) or as the author of the witch hunt itself. The authors also take Cicero's chronology to be the most reliable of the ancient sources (which is unsurprising, since it was the only one that provided contemporary testimonia). Dio's account of the affair, by the way, suffers from a confused chronology on many points, including when the consulur comitia took place and when Cicero defended Gaius Antonius. Thanks for the copy of the "Vettius Affair" , it's a very interesting read and i now see the whole episode in a different light. The way i now see it is that Caesar was fearful that Pompey was growing dis-illusioned with the triumvirate and swaying back towards the optimates, and by creating the plot on Pompeys' life Caesar hoped that Pompey would realise he was safer and better of sticking within the triumvirate.

I am expecting the Premiership race to be a little closer this year, but still not as close as the pundits are predicting. I expect a third title, by which time, there won't be a single neutral out there who'll love us. It will make us have so much in common with Leeds! Being an avid hater of Man U, i so much enjoy it when someone (mentioning no names ) ends up with egg on thier face Augusta, at this particular moment in time Chelsea have absolutely nothing in common with Leeds, you have billions in the bank....... we have pennys, you have a world class manager......... we have Kevin Blackwell, you have superstar players.........we have sunday league players, you get full houses........... we cant even give tickets away and to cap it all of we're already in a relegation battle at the bottom of the championship but i wouldn't change it for the world :bag:

I too think there's quite a bit of truth in this theory, Alexander was forgetting his heritage, where he came from and his close circle of friends could probably see him turning into a mad power hungry tyrant and they realised they had to stop him before he destroyed the world that they knew and loved.

I like Dio Cassus's theory that PP posted which points the finger at Cicero and Lucullus. Cicero as we all know was a very intelligent and at times clandestine man, the plot against Pompey would certainly have done his own political ambitions no harm at all. Lucullus could well still have been holding a grudge against Pompey who was an old political enemy of his, and he may still have been bitter about what happened in Armenia in 68bc when pompey was one of the main instigators (from afar) of the mutiny that occur in his army which subsequently led to Pompey taking over his command which i'm sure would have been a major embarrasment to Lucullus.

They're pretty much the kind of answers i expected, i just found it a bit strange that the horse was mentioned but not even named, and i was sure that if Caesar had have had such an 'amazing' horse i would have at least heard mention of it before. And yes PC you are right, Suetonius is a great storyteller!

I totally agree Ursus, in the short time that i've been a member in this forum i've learnt a hell of a lot more on the roman culture, military, goverment etc, than i would have thought possible and you can also have a laugh whilst doing so Go on NH poke away

Sounds pretty good I'll definately be tuning in for that

Yes it's true, Constantine was proclaimed emperor in Eboracum (York). His father Constantius fell sick in July 306 and the troops loyal to his memory immediatley proclaimed Constantine an Augustus

This a bit of an odd one but....... I've recently been reading The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius and there's a small paragraph in the section of the book about Caesar which talks of a horse that Caesar himself reared and was supposedly an extraordinary animal. 61. This charger of his, an exrtaordinary animal with feet that looked almost human - each of its hooves were cloven in five parts, resembling human toes - had been foaled on his private estate. When the soothsayers pronounced that its master would one day rule the world, Caesar carefully reared, and was the first to ride, the beast; nor would it allow anyone else to do so. Eventually he raised a statue to it before the Temple of Mother Venus. Does anyone have anymore info on this horse (if it existed at all?), a name, a picture of the statue, anything along those lines. Was it in the same league as Alexanders' horse, Bucephalus??

My friend Billys' got a 10ft willy And he showed it to the girl next door She thought it was a snake So she hit it with a rake And now it's only 4ft 4 Nothing at all to do with the thread but i think it's pretty good

I thought it was Rupert Murdoch, the Aussie media emperor businessdude? It's the family that owns the Tampa Bay Bucaneers that are the major shareholders at Man U, think they're called the Glaziers, think the head guy is Malcom Glazier??

A member of the Flavii dynasty, i'm truly honoured, or at least i was until you threw a spanner in the works with the "Niger" thing just my luck! I think the black sheep of the family thing probably came from my playboy life style anyway Haha great fun Nepilla, cheers

Haha not a chance in hell, i think she'd rather stick a fork in her eye than tag along on this, unless we were checking out all the clothes shops :frusty: Who knows Pertinax, by March next year i might have even figured out how to do the 'links' properly

ivyaangnlfeer sorry, no middle name for you to work with goodluck

The first date is a big as it's my birthday on the 27th so i will probably be busy that week-end The third date you suggested is the wife's birthday so again a So the only one i could possibly make would be March 31/1 April

I've found another site on the Pompeii Gladius, it has quite a bit of information on the sword as well as the opportunity to buy an imitation for a measly $600!!! http://www.albion-swords.com/swords/albion...man-pompeii.htm

I went for the lighthouse of Alexandria It must have been a pretty impressive sight to see when sailing in to the Alexandrian harbour

I think it was Benito Mussolini who first turned the salute into a symbol of fascism. He was the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922 - 1943 and was an alley of Adolf Hitler whom he greatly influenced