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I don't know whether I'm losing my taste for Falco, or that I'm just turned off by travel agencies existing in ancient Rome, but I was only able to get halfway through the second chapter of the book before putting it down.
So, did travel agencies exist in the ancient world?
Salve, MC! Don't be lazy; finish the book and then comment it to us.
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Salve, M! Salve, K! It was not so easy, believe me. Good luck, I guess.
I will have to ask for your help (M or K or GPM or SOMEONE!). I'm still not able to upload the image (what a shame!). The best I can do is to leave a link.
So... No more bridges, huh? Hmmm... and what about an arch? What do you think of THIS BABY?
Good luck!
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Salve, C! This is the kind of suspicious stories that you hear any time a colonial power finds resistance to its conquests. It is always a sweeter tale if you liberate a conquered people from a tyrant than if you had done it for mere greediness. (Sounds familiar?). You clearly don't give any credit to the accounts of the native people (once again, you could follow the last link, or you could do your own search). Good luck.
PS: I haven't seen the film "Zulu" (1964, at the end of the colonial period); from what I have read, it appears to be a good film (supposedly the 8th best war film) but historically inaccuracies had been reoeatedly noted. It is certainly not an African testimony. I suppose that it is like taking
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On a tv program called Countryfile, the presenters talked about a roman fort at Melrose, in Scotland by the river tweed.. Once called Trimontium (Place of Three Mountains) its a typical roman fort and vicus. Something like three or four thousand civilians lived there, with a garrison of up to two thousand. There's even an amphitheatre there, a basic affair consisting of an oval depression in a hillside with evidence of a 'stand', a covered seating area very reminiscent of a football ground, in which rituals and parades were held. The significance is that the local experts say its the most northerly fort of the roman empire. Thats the view of the researchers. Anyone know different?
Salve, C! That statement is clearly a mistake. Obviously, the Caledonian border was farther to the North than any continental Roman post, but Trimontium was even South to the Antonine Wall. The most septentrional confirmed Roman construction is on Stracathro (Angus) at a latitude of 56
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Hmm... quite interesting. Salve and thank you for your kind answer, BH!
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Salve, Doc, and thank you! One can always learn new tricks. I have never tried that way.
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Salve! I think that any religion's head always declares that his teachings are, by definition, the only truth, especially when he is talking to his own parish. We should remember Pope John Paul II was considered conservative in comparison with his predecessors (for example, about the Liberation Theology movement), and also Paul VI when compared with John XXIII, the Pope that convoked Vatican II. I guess that what explains the different strategies is not so much the personality of each Pope as the evolution of the global conditions; in the sixties, the Catholic Church was much more stable and then it tried to make links with other denominations for becoming more "catholic" ("Universal"). Today, as its desertion index is much bigger, and as a source of this desertion is considered to be the disappointment of many traditionalist Catholics, the Church seems to be trying to attract them by drawing its line against other denominations. Only time will determine if this is the right tactic.
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Makes one wonder if that ever happened in ancient Greece or Rome, and how the teachers reacted.
Ancient teachers used to beat their students for even tiny offenses. Practicing one's rhetorical skills on one's pedagogue would have been posed a physical risk.
XX Century teachers used to beat their students for even tiny offenses up to WWII and even after, and I'm pretty sure that still happens in many places in our world.
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Salve! According to Pausanias, ( book 3 chapter 17 section 2) the patron deity of Sparta was Athena Chalkioikos "of the Brazen House":
"[2] Here is built a sanctuary of Athena, who is called both City-protecting and Lady of the Bronze House. The building of the sanctuary was begun, they say, by Tyndareus. On his death his children were desirous of making a second attempt to complete the building, and the resources they intended to use were the spoils of Aphidna. They too left it unfinished, and it was many years afterwards that the Lacedaemonians made of bronze both the temple and the image of Athena. The builder was Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, who also composed Dorian lyrics, including a hymn to the goddess." (circa 500 BC).
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Salve, Mr. Dalby! I think that your kind and extensive answer clearly states up your position and that it is going to be very helpful to me for making one on my own. Thank you and good luck with your book (obviously, I pretend to buy it).
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Salve, M (aka Evan)! Thank you for your kind and extensive explanation; it's going to be extremely useful for me.
I think that the contribution of classical poetry to Latin phonetic reconstruction would be far greater than that of the prose, as you may have a reasonable idea of its rhyming rules.
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Here ia a quote from a post of member no. 109, URSUS:
Jul 4 2006, 04:28 PM Post #35
"It would be nice though if we could discuss Christianity without:
* Protestants waving the banner of Solo Sciptura against Catholics and Orthodox (to be blunt, as far as I am concerned the Protestant viewpoint is off topic since it has nothing to do with the Christianity of the Roman Empire)
* Agnostics who feel the need to make rather rude comments about Christianity no matter the situation .... or to make rude comments about religion in general. Bonus points if they somehow manage to tie in the evils of organized religion with the politics of the Bush Administration.
And yes I suppose sometimes Pagans can get snippy when it comes to Christianity, though I see far less of it than the above two.
Everytime a discussion on Christianity is started it degenerates into the above pattern, it seems. Those who sincerely want to discuss Christianity as a historical and cultural reflection of the Roman Empire have to suffer those on all sides who have an axe to grind. "
Wiser words were hardly ever said.
I bring these words of precaution because it seems that this thread is going to talk about the relations between different denominations, a highly candent topic.
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I have just watched a video clip interview with the costume designer and make-up lady on my TV series. The make-up lady, Leslie, says Roman men 'only washed their hair twice a year, because it was considered unlucky'!!! Before I shoot this comment down in flames on my website, is there any evidence for this?
Salve, FG! I don't think you have any problem at all, it's simply nonsense. For example, HERE IS A GOOD LINK. Some extracts;
"The universal acceptance of bathing as a central event in daily life belongs to the Roman world and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that at the height of the empire, the baths embodied the ideal Roman way of urban life."
"Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the empire the custom was to open the bathhouses to women during the early part of the day"
"Mixed bathing was generally frowned upon, although the fact that various emperors repeatedly forbade it seems to indicate that the prohibitions did not always work."
Congratulations for the success of your books and series! Go on and good luck!
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Salve, M! My guess is that it would be the church of Saint Pierre in Antioch (Antiochia of Orontes, today Antakya, Turkey).
Salve, K! You're welcome, my pleasure.
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Asclepiades ("son of Asclepios", Greek god of medicine, or something like that) was a common name in the Hellenistic Asia Minor, especially common, as you can imagine, among physicians. The most famous was the first one, A. of Prusa (or Bithynia), supposedly the first Greek physician with a successful practice at Rome (end of 2nd Century BC).
I choose this name because it was my first available selection.
Thank you for your kind invitation to this thread, GPM.
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Well, um, yeah...that's pretty much a given. The ingredients list is primarily what gets my attention; substitute earthenware cooking vessels for metallic ones.
Both recipes (yours and mine) require frying extensively. Without it the dishes would be unrecognizable. I understand that frying is not possible with earthenware.
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Thank you,U. IOU another one.
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Shaka of course was long gone by the time the zulu's fought our lads at Rorkes Drift. He was something of a merciless tyrant too, eventually bumped off by his own family, a real nasty headcase. I haven't seen any assegai with euro-style blades and that description is the first time I've come across them. However, photographs of zulu's from the Rorkes Drift era show the more primitive and more easily mass produced leaf shaped blade. Also by that period there was a tendency toward elaborate headdresses, even for battle. The idea was that it helped camouflage the zulu in long grass, though I suspect status also had something to do with it as most photographs show the double head ring.
As is commonly the case for colonial wars, that image of Shaka probable comes from his enemies, specially the accounts of Nathaniel Isaccs and Henry Finn. You could think in Mithridates as a similar case for Rome Modern historians show a much more sympathetic image, as a great military and political leader. HERE is an example.
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I think this is the third thread related to Hatshepsut I have read in the last days. Obviously, all of us are waiting for the Discovery's special scheduled in two days. As there are big names in the play and even maybe some political factors, anything that comes out is expected to be explosive, and not only to the archeological world. I think that some of the key elements which are going to be hot topic in the next weeks will be the genetic tests and the validation of the identification of the mummies of ALL the members of the XVIII Egyptian dynasty involved in this investigation (for example, Ahmes-Nefertari, purported grandmother of Hatshepsut that shows possible Negroid iconographical features), as they will be mutually supportive.
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I am going to rise my hand for the Iranian peoples, Parthians and Sassanides (I suppose they are not covered in the "Asia Minor" section), as they were presumably the only unsurpassable neighbour state for our kids.
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Salve! As K is asking for more and more, HERE is a lot of the best material for your nightmares, GPM. Unfortunately, the website is in Spanish, but the third link under the head "PONTES" goes to an excellent chapter in English. Be careful, technical translation is not always easy.
This beauty is certainly the Ponte Velho (sometimes "Velha"; "Old Bridge" in Portuguese) at Vila (one L) Formosa ("beautiful village"), in the municipality of Alter do Ch
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The contributions to this thread are incredibly interesting for a number of reasons.
Latin may not be a dead language, but Classical Latin is a dead as classical Sanskrit. The problem of all dead languages is that there is no way to know for sure its phonetics. In my university there were no less than three options: the "Italian way", the "French way" and the "Spanish way". It is very possible that all 3 are wrong. I prefer the Italian one, but only because of its taste.
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That is a great idea. I don't know much on the subject (other than that men were said to wear cleopatra-like eye makeup on occasion). We should start another thread on that.
Im trying to get some collyrium images sourced , but that might be tricky. I will post if I get a lead.
The use of makeup cross gender is interesting , given that we have a society where Judaeo-Christian notions of body shame are absent (certainly in the late Republican era at the very least) and modern "definitions" of sexuality are absent this would be worth some study.The use of cosmetics in other cultures and historical epochs certainly informs us that women were not the sole users of such items The chemical make up of grooming products and any magical/medicinal virtues would likewise be an interesting area.
Ancient Roman cosmetic cream unearthed
Salve! Maybe this link can be helpful.
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Man, I forgot that they use cilantro in Burmese food! My first thought with cilantro is a good pico de gallo salsa, on a small taco or some such Mexican delight.
That recipe, AD, is almost identical to the mole de chocolate that I have from Rick Bayless. I think he even uses unsweetened chocolate in his recipe, to further make it 'authentic'. My absolute favorite one, though is mole de pepinas, which has roasted pumpkin seeds as the base...it gives it a grassy, fresh taste that is beyond amazing. This recipe on Food Network's page is very similar.
Mole of all kinds is perhaps one of my very favorite sauces. I love to take chicken breasts or thights, boneless and skinless, and cook them in the mole, and serve it up with some lime/cilantro rice and black beans. An amazing dinner!
Salve, Doc! The problem with this recipe fon the ancient mesoamericans would have been not so much the absence of oil, broth and sorrel, but the total lack of metalic cookware.
Guess the ancient city!
in Vacatio
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Thanks a lot, K. Pretty, isn't it?