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  9. Public Baths And The Use Of Oil

    in Romana Humanitas

    Posted

    They would use olive oil to clean themselves...sort of like we use soap. They would cover themselves in the oil and sit in a sauna or similar thing, then they would scrape the oil off

     

    I think they used oil after bath. When skin was already clean a slave rubbed oil into skin. There are two reasons for it (in Romans opinion). First, dirt will wash away better during next bath; second, oil was like a cream for skin and protected it from wind and sun.

    I know some herbal extracts used for cleaning skin. These extracts added to water during taking a bath.

  10. Name This Baby Thread...

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted · Edited by Lacertus

    Yes, add Olga, Svetlana, Nadya, Anastasia, Tanya and Ludmilla and you have 99% of the names of every woman I ever met while living in St. Pete's.

    We speak about Roman names here, not Russian, lol :)

     

    Oh by the way, I hope this site is helpful Female Latin Names

    I looked this site just now. At least Russian names not true here (mosly not Russian or have not right forms). I suggest Roman names are not true value here too)

     

    I think else Anna and Flavia are real Roman names.

  14. Roman Forts Had A Woman's Touch

    in Archaeological News: Rome

    Posted · Edited by Lacertus

    It's not so latest news. It's a just another confirmation of known facts. Many different "only for women" things were found in the similar places (spindles, combs, hair-pins and women jewelry). Besides them there were children's toys carved from wood. Well, Roman soldiers were simply men and life inside fort was like life in an usual settlement.

  16. How Many Languages Do You Know

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    Besides my native Russian, I know German almost like native, some Spain, some English.

    I may talk on Arabic but cannot write on it.

    I study Latin, ancient German, ancient Greek and Gaellic.

    ...and French... damn it, lol

     

    and bit of Zulu...

    I have a wonderful very old textbook, don't know why it is in my home. Maybe I'll begin to learn it one day if can understand why it needs me. ;)

  17. Byzantine Relations With The Rus

    in Postilla Historia Romanorum

    Posted

    Ah, I hadn't much time during a few weeks and missed this thread.

    Well, need say at first who were varangian and who were russian during the Bizantine time. They were the same. We should not talk about them individually. The word "Russian" have a varangian origin. It was a varangian tribe who came to territory of slaves land because they got an inviting from slaves tribes to fight slaves lands from south tribes who led a nomad's life in Crimea and in south Russia.

     

    The Varangian gaurd was formed primarily of Russian peoples

     

    Yes, from Russian (varangian) people, not from slaves people. The varangian guard was really great during that time but they were not popular in slaves lands because they protected the slaves boards partially only. They pillaged in generally the aboriginal population in spite of fact that they must defend them. Varangians were mercenaries, but they had a rule in slaves lands and all land got name "Russia" soon.

    No, I don't think so because Russia at the time was being conquered by the Mongols in 1241 and remained so until all of Timuchin's sons died. So really, the Russians had their own problems to deal with.

    You talked about late time. The first mention about conflict of Russia and Byzantium date the first half of 9AD. One of chronicles talks about "madly" armed attack of Russians on Byzantine regions in Crimea (Bramlin was the leader of Russians), next mention date the middle of 9 AD. In this time Russians attacked the Byzantine region in Asia Minor. Well, the one aim of this actions was pillage of course but both varangian attacks were successful.

    After that the active diplomatic talks between Russia and Byzantine began (852 AD) because Byzantine was really alarmed a new disturbing neighbour near own boards.

     

    Should there have been a closer alliance between the Rus warriors and the Byzantines, could the empire have been saved?

    It was a good case for Bizantine to get a "mad" restless ally but Byzantine became to play on two fields in one moment. On the one hand the trades agreements between Byzantine and Russia were take; on the second hand Byzantine began to help Chazars to build a fortress near Russian boards in an effort to block this trade way. During a long time Russia was blocked but raids on the Byzantine territory recommenced right up till the 10 AD.

    Probably it was Byzantine's bad mistake but we may guess about it only.

    IMAO: It could be good alliance in that time and most likely as Byzantine as Russia could circumvent difficulties in the future.

  18. Avatars And Signatures

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    My avatar can be interpreted quite a few ways, but I don't care about that, I just like the way it looks.

     

    The quote is Hunter Thompson.

    Yes, it's a very strong simbol. It means as the eternity as connections between past, present and future as other philosophical things.

     

    My avatar and my sig are the attributes of my roleplay community (RV).

  23. Roman Arrows

    in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'

    Posted · Edited by Lacertus

    Great finds! Yes, some of them are medieval. I recognize them because they have another type of fastenings. Need to know wrere they were found because this type of fastening came into the world in 10-11AD in south of Europe but there is an opinion that it was "born" in the North of Europe and came together Saxon tribes and then extended on all Europe. That is to say they might be earlier.

    The Romans arrows can date middle-end 1AD. But why you so sure that they are Romans? Yeah, they might be Romans of course but in that time the most part of armaments looked very similar.

    Let good specialist looks on this finds at first. Need to hold them in the hands and distinguish them carefully.

  24. Phoenicians: Inventors Or Brokers Of The Alphabet?

    in Historia in Universum

    Posted

    Were the Phoenicians just brokers of this profound improvement in writing?

    I think yes, the were like brokers only. In spite of the fact that Phoenician alphabet was very old (13-14BC) it was adopted too from other alfabet.

    The Bronze age excavations in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) showed that two branches of culture existed in proto-Phoenicia; and two alphabets were too. The first, which was adapted to the Ugaric language, used 30 signs. Its "nails", which are cuneiforms signs, point from left to right. The second system requires only 22 signs; they point left. The cuneiform signs were replaced by more linear signs, and they in turn are the basic types of the Greek alphabet.

    In addition to using the two new system that were developed in 13-14 BC, the main benefit of which was to facilitate the recording of economic data, the scribes did occasionaly prefer to use Egyptian hieroglyphs for the records of local members dynasty. In this they were following the example of the scribes of Byblos, who were the actually developing their own system of "pseudohieroglyphs".

    I think the Phoenician alphabet is reductive Egyptian only. But Phoenicians extended own alphabet on the most part of Mediterranean area.

     

    Runes... I suggest the Runes and the Phoenician (and other last) alphabet are the two absolutely different ways of writing development. They existed nearly at the same time but have different locations and roots. But Runes became transformed under the Phoenician's influence later.

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