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Salve, G and welcome to UNRV I must agree with your fellows at forum.org.

Ooops! Indeed Anyway, I would really like to check on your literary art ASAP. Glad to know that link was useful for you. Regarding the Roman villa, FAUSTUS have excellent material and you can see some nice examples at HOMVNCVLVM, Brigantia by NORTHERN NEIL. Additionally, reading Somnium Scipionis may be of some help for the general context, even if MT Cicero wrote it almost a century later.

Birley is a good example; aside from being presumably born in Africa, what does this author really meant by Punic origin regarding any Equite in 95 AD? This would be like two and a half centuries (ie ten whole generations) after the absolute oblteration of the Carthaginian people and civilization at the end of Punic War III.

Salve, Amici You know, this ih the kind of trivia Caius Secundus Plinius Maior had in mind when he wrote his Naturalis Historia.

Salve, Amici As NN said, we have been here before... Most peoples through history have had some kind of ancestral role model to follow, commonly in a highly idealized conception; for the Roman themselves it were their first fathers. For Europe and the European-related world, this model has frequently been the ancient Romans in one of their many facets; in general terms the world-conquering Empire has been more popular than the democratic Republic. Sometimes the analogy is made in a negative way, specially from religious groups (Christians, Jews) remembering persecution times; but the vast majority of comparisons are positive. Nowadays, the analogy between the United States and the Roman Republic in its late (imperialist) phase is so commonplace that prof. Walter Scheidel from Stanford wrote an intriguing paper just to explain why he disagrees: Republics between hegemony and empire:How ancient city-states built empires and the USA doesn

This book is indeed a nice piece of work; Luttwak reached some pragmatical conclusions regardibg the comparison of the Roman Armies from different times in his Charter III "DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH. The Great Crisis of the Third Century and the New Strategies" (pg. 170-173):

Nice link, DD I will never understand the scoring system of these "top ten": Kidnapping CJ Caesat in 75 BC when he was just... (well, nobody) made it to the "top ten"... but the Ostian Raid of 68 BC didn't!

Salve, Amici It's indeed noteworthy the great Bulgarian (aka Thracian) archaeological research in recent years:

Another good point; Titus was 42.

None of the above.

Salve, VTC! G2CU! So this time you're illustrating Africanus Minor, Polybius & Co in their way to the Hispanic or Punic campaigns? Indeed it was, maybe this NICE LINK may help you. Please show us your Art ASAP.

I suppose you realize this question is more christian hagiography than bona fide Roman History.

"My father's father had four legs my brother's father too my brother have some horns but legs? just two" I am Androgeus, and my brother is the Miniotaur.

WOW! JSTOR access undoubtedly helps, but you're really good in prosopography...

"My father's father had four legs my brother's father too my brother have some horns but legs? just two"

An Indian Agrippa, indeed!

Let's try this one: "Those fellows were bad losers so when I beat all them even in his prison, my brother ate some teen , if not the men"

Of course, LW Your turn

Another easy one: "Please believe me, he gave me the gift but as I cheated he added a twist now I see your death I can tel youl the truth why should I bother? you

Is she Daphne? Are you Apollo?

Salve, G Sorry, no active link. Maybe you were talking about Farah Abd Jameh and his group, who hijacked an oil-laden Saudi Arabian supertanker hijacked off the coast of SOMALIA. BTW, I would rather recommend an Agrippa; Cn. Pompeius Magnus basically just relocated the Cilician pirates as his clients. Some of them and/or their descendents were undoubtedly among the Sicilian pirates under Pompeius' son Sextus; and most of them were eventually exterminated by Marcus Agrippa.

WOW; excellent post , GG Jackson figures are incredibly optimistic: He assumed Galen never lost even a single page and that he didn't require editing or reviewing even a single word. Jackson doesn't considered the time required for research and verification; Galen checked on all the available medical and philosophical literature of his time; eg. he quoted many Hippocratical texts written some seven centuries before. (BTW, I'm sure that by now you're very well aware of this caveat, as Galen didn't have Internet). But fundamentally, Jackson seems to consider that any successful Roman physician didn't have anything else to do but to write across half a century, being him travelling or taking care of the gladiators; not to talk about experimentation. Finally, I understand 3,000,000 words is an estimation for what we currently have from him; we have evidence of many other lost works from Galen.

Gratiam habeo for such nice link, PP.

Nessus?

.... Are you... Anaxarete? (and the suicidal boy Iphis?) From Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Liber XIV verse DCXCVIII to DCCLXXI.