Septimus Flavius Galarius

I liked Posca more in the first season than the second. This season he seems self centered and greedy. He constantly is asking anthony for money, he encourages octavian and anthony to kill jocasta's father, then ends up marrying her, without letting her know who had her family killed, which is as low as you can get. Then he betrays anthony to maecenas. Eventulally i think he will end up spying on anthony for octavian. Boy its getting really hard to cheer for someone on this show.

First off can someone tell me how to do quotes from other messages on here because that would be appreciatted. Pantagathus as far as telling me to drop it, i was making a point from Antiochus of Seleucia comment how the southern slave expansionists wanted to annex cuba and i mentioned how the south has never spoken for the entire United States and then i mentioned various modern people to support my claim, i wasn't trying to turn this into a big political argument, i was just trying to make a point. As far as the War of 1812 goes i think it was not as pointless as some thing. First off the British had no respect for the United States, its citizens, or its territory before the war. If they had they would not of impressed American sailors into the British navy, disrupted U.S. trade in europe, we were a neutral country during britains war with Napoleon. A perfect example of Britains lack of respect for the territory of the United States was the british not evacuating Fort Niagara until 1796, 13 years after the end of the War of Indepedence!! We also could relate more to the French, they aided us in the War of Indepedence, and the French Revolution was a popular uprising against a monarchy similiar to what happened in the American Colonies, and it was france that sold us the Louisiana Purchase, but that was more out of necessity than any nice deed by Napoleon. But by the end of the war the British respected the territory, citizens, and the right to exist of the United States, and not even a dead pig would cause the US and Britain to go to war again.

Antiochus of Seleucia since when has the South ever spoken for the entire United States. The south has produced such current charming and tolerate people such as Jerry Falwell and James Dobson, not to mention such honest people as Tom Delay and Bill Frist. Gaius Octavius i know it is a mystery, but the explosion, whatever caused it, is what really drew the attention of the United States to cuba and Spain.

Antiochus of Seleucia lets not forget that spain declared war first, and that we only become interested in cuba after the Maine was blown up. Even then we were only concerned with the ongoing independence movement against the spanish by the cubans, until spain declared war. Well by 1902 cuba was an independent nation despite calls to annex it, and as far as puerto rico goes currently only 3% percent of their population favor indepedence with the rest either for continued commonwealth or statehood with the United States. The bottom line is we won spain lost and to the victor go the spoils.

Well who knows what would have happened if the British had won the Battle of Lake Champlain, part or all of this country may have gone back to the crown, or if Jacob Brown would have pressed the American advantage at Lundys Lane, canada could be part of the U.S. Also it was a widely unpopular war pushed by warhawks in Congress who wanted control of canada, with those who were against the war denounced as traitors despite many being War of Independence veterans, but in the end i think the British finally gained respect for the United States and us Americans. A quote from Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who declined to replace Prevost and take command of the American war, after the American victory at Champlain went something like this " Given the current state of the war in North America we are in no postion to demand from the Americans anything."

Thats another thing, if i recall from season 1 Pullo isn't a citizen his parents were slaves with no mention that they were freed, so i was wondering how he could serve in the army? Is he a freedman or is he a citizen now?

I was wondering myself the Roman view of freedmen marrying Roman citizens. Freedmen couldn't hold office and were still looked down as inferior, but they were allowed to marry Roman citizens seems odd to me? Especially this epidsode they all seem perfectly happy and normal for jocasta to marry posca, no matter how smart he is he still is just a lowly freedman.

Kosmo thats a good question. The Arch of Titus could be considered a war memorial, and it was constructed by Domitian so i believe it would be a public commission, but i don't know enough about it to be sure.

Augusta maybe you don't understand because its one lousy extra "n" and a "i" out of place. I appreciatte and understand people correcting me so i know for the future on the correct spelling, but how did any of that add or answer any of the questions i originally asked.

If a legionnaire was killed in combat, or any soldier or officer in the Roman Army, was his family entitled to any kind of compensation? Also when one was killed in combat in the Roman Army was that considered an honurable death, or was it viewed as he messed up somehow in combat so therefore he deserved to die? Was it more honrable to be fighting the barbarians, or to be fighting fellow Romans in the many civil wars that Rome had?

Legionnaires who were wounded in combat especially severely wounded veterans who lost a arm leg or both, how were they compensated if at all.

Well i hope a third season and any following seasons (which probaly won't happen anyway since there is no audience for Rome) concentrates on Roman society and life like this series does. They do a good job sticking to Rome and Roman society right now, except for the timon zealot subplot, what we don't need is this series turning into the passion of the christ!

Vorenus before he was made Senator by Caesar was a magistrate. Now was he a plebian aedile? It would make sense because if i recall when he was seeing citizens for complaints someone was saying the foreign element was spilling his jars of piss, and wasn't one of the jobs of a aedile was to make foreign influeneces didn't corrupt Roman citizens? If anyone could clear that up it would be appreciated.

From what i understand zealots did not become a serious threat until after Herod the Great's death. Even then it was just random riots, such as the riots against Pilate for his building a aqueduct, until the first jewish revolt. Plus timon did a complete 180 turn. Him and his brother just seem like a couple of thugs, like assaulting the jewish elders, what did that accomplish besides turning the jewish leaders against them. I suppose the big climax for their subplot will be to try to assaninate Herod when he comes to Rome, well i hope this subplot ends there because it seems like filler to me.

Now a freeman could he ever hope of becoming a roman citizen? Also if not then did his children become citizens? I'm just confused how a a roman citizen could have a grandfather as a slave? Was their some kind of qualifications, or test that a freeman could take to become a roman citizen, such as citizens test that immigrants in the U.S. take to become American citizens?

Now when Paulinus took over the as the governor for britain after the death of Quintus Veranius Nepos britain was a very volatile province. Now i am assuming it was an imperial province, and at the time of the Boudica revolt i believe it had 3 legions stationed in it, the II Augusta, IX Hispana, XIV Gemina. Now Paulinus before he became governor served as Praetor, and legion legate. Now all the governors before him i believe served as Consul. Now how did a propraetor become proconsul of britain when most propraetors become governors of senatorial provinces or of provinces with just one legion? He proved himself highly capable for he was able to defeat Boudica with a far inferior numerical force than what Boudica had. But how did he get there, did he have many political connections, and if so it seems odd that none of those connections would help him from getting relieved by Nero shortly after he defeated Boudica even if he was punishing the britons as revenge for the revolt? He later became Consul and was involved in the civil wars after Nero's death, but is there any detailed biography of his life?

There were two things said in that episode i thought were odd. One, Titus Pullo mentions that something that will be carved on his tombstone when he dies. Now did the Romans use tombstones? Two, Brutus remarkes how it is Cassius's birthday, and said how he didn't bake a cake for him. Now did the Romans celebrate birthdays and if they did, did they bake cakes for those that were celebrating their birthdays?

Gauis Octavius, i did read the responses and got a ideal of what the Praetors were responsible for. They were given responsibilities for the public games after in was taken from the aediles under Augustus, they did have to serve as Proconsuls in senatorial provinces, while the ex-consuls were made Legate Propraetor for the imperial provinces. Praetors in the republic could field an army in a emergency when the consuls were away from Rome. So it sounds like to me they where in fact second to the consuls. Also they could appoint a iudex in a civil case, and in criminal cases they appointed judges that acted as jurors that voted for the guilt or innocence of those on trial. I don't claim to be a Professor of the Classics, i like most people on here am trying to learn and ask questions on the Roman civilization.

So let me seee if i got this straight. The Praetors responbilities were appointing a Judex to judge criminal or civil cases, which both parties in the case had to agree on the Judex. Also Praetors were responsible for overseeing public games and their importance in the Roman govermnet was second only to the Consuls. Also when their term of office ended they had to become a Proconsul for a senatorial province. Now i hope i have it somewhat right this time. Also thank you to everyone for helping me be clear on the importance and duties of the Praetor.

Gaius Claudius Nero. Together with Marcus Livius they defeated and killed Hasdrubal at Mataurus. But it was Nero who discovered that Hasdrubal intended to link up with Hannibal to attack Rome itself. Nero linked up with Marcus Livius without Hannibal or Hasdrubal knowing it. During the battle it was Nero who outflanked Hasdrubal's forces causing his army to collapse. Also it was Nero who ordered Hasdrubal's corpse to be decapiatated and his head to be thrown into Hannibal's camp, convincing Hannibal that he could never defeat Rome.

so if a governor was brought up on corruption charges would it be the praetors job to prosecute that governor or would it fall to someone else? Was he in sense a government prosecutor? What crimes would fall under a praetors jurisdiction? Was there any crime too small, or not in his jurisdiction to prosecute?

I'm still confused to the role of the praetor in regards to the late republic and the principate. Now where they governors of provinces or where they part of the government of the pronvices overseeing its legal affairs? Also i believe they replaced the aediles in finacing and putting on the public games, am i right on that?

Praetor's were responsible f for the administration of justice. Now from what i understand after new terriotories were conquered new praetors were added. Now did every province have a praetor? Did he have a staff to assist him? Did they have to have any background in roman law? Now who did they directly answer too, i would assume not to a procosul but to the senate , or during the empire to the emperor. Could they be considered the roman equalivent to the US attorneys that represent the Attorney General and the United States government?

The patrician and plebian adeliles, now they supervised the public games and made sure that buildings in the city were kept up to spec. They also, from what i understand, regulated the behavior of the citizens that they were resposible for. Now if there was civil unrest what powers did they have to enforce the peace and put down the unrest? Also how long did the aediles serve for? By what processs were they made a aedile,were they voted in, or were they appointed, but considering their resposiblilities i would assume they were voted into office. Did each aedile have a specific district they were resposible for?