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  3. Stilicho

    in Libri

    Posted · Edited by Artimi

    Hello all.

     

    It's recently been brought to my attention that I have failed to inform the readers of this august forum that I have a new book available - via Pen and Sword and all good book shops (and Amazon!). I grovel in abject apology for the oversight and hope you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me. :(

     

    'Stilicho: the Vandal Who Saved Rome' was published 30 June 2010 by Pen and Sword and is an attempt to re-evaluate the life and career of the late-Roman magister militum Stilicho using the relatively-meagre sources available.

     

    I hope that you enjoy it and find it useful.

     

     

     

     

    Ian

     

     

     

     

     

    Love the cover picture and I am sure I will enjoy the book. I did Belisarius.

  4. Forum Upgrade Issues Help List

    in Renuntiatio et Consilium Comitiorum

    Posted

    Another element that I do miss dreadfully: on the home page of the forum there used to be 'view all unread posts'

     

    That's the one I meant. It's the only button I ever use really, don't have a clue how I should navigate the fora now.

    Looks like you actually need to go into the folders to see new posts? (unless you check in every day and use 'today's active topics').

     

    At the bottom is Todays Active Content

    click on it and then you see the Active Content of the last 24 hours, when you are there go to the bottom there you can change in a drop down box from 24 hours to week, 2 weeks up to a year, hope that helps...

    cheers

    viggen

    I can do this... even though it takes a few clicks here and there.........lol

  6. Fallen Hopes

    in Colosseum

    Posted

    Okay ...

     

    A good story, and relating well to what someone tangentially related to the assassination might have felt. Just two niggles

     

    Firstly, where does the name Sethra come from? Since a Roman female's name was the feminine of the gentilicum, this suggests that the father was called Sethrus. Which is not a Roman name.

     

    Secondly the funeral of Caesar probably took place on March 17 - several days after the ides, so you are running events into each other.

     

    Sethra is Etruscan. When I wrote this, I was still very fascinated by Etruscans (still am but Rome claimed my time). I named her Sethra, in honour of her mother's ancestors in Etruria and I like the name. I think I was going to introduce more details of the names of the characters had I continued.

     

     

    Caesar was dead!! Killed with the help of our patron. First the assassins

  7. Fallen Hopes

    in Colosseum

    Posted

    6-Mar-07

     

     

    Fallen Hopes

    Sethra watched the sunrise; the sky turned from dark, dark blue to a wonderful rose, then a joyous orange. This matched her mood. Today she was 14, and her mother and father said they had a birthday surprise. Many of her friends were already betrothed or married, and she felt left behind. Hopefully, a future husband was the surprise. Her mother knew who she preferred first, second, third, as if this would matter. Pater was a rising client of an important patron, one who was actually in the Senate. Unfortunately her marriage would a political or commercial union.

     

     

     

    Father had already left the domus, and Sethra could hear her mother moving about. Her brother

  8. Praetorian; Novel Idea

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted · Edited by Artimi

    I would like to see the finished product:).

    I like the idea.

     

    I have toyed with the idea of writing, but I get bogged down in my lack of knowledge of details of the Rome. The details are the background, yes, but make the story believable and interesting.

  9. Line relief system

    in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'

    Posted

    To describe the Romans as highly trained expert soldiers of the highest calibre, a military machine relentlessly crushing all resistance in perfect order, moving on the battlefield in close co-operation with other units, is a gross distortion of history in my view. The sources are very revealing if you actually read them and put aside all the romantic myths about Conquering Heroes of Rome.
    (Caldrail)

    This is not what I got from Virgil61's post.

     

     

    Machines come in various forms in various cultures - military, economic, societal.

     

    I think which machine is perferred can reflect the mental make up of the person and is not necessarily evil or bad.

     

    Anarchy is a machine as well.

  11. Books on Aurelius & Co.

    in Libri

    Posted

    I have "Restorer of the World; The Roman Emperor Aurelian", by John White. Does anyone know of any other books on either Aurelian, or this cadre of Illyrian Officers that domiinated roman politics in the third century?

     

    Hi.

    did you enjoy this book? was it helpful?

  12. What's the last book you read?

    in Libri

    Posted

    I am waiting for a few books.. Got a real good deal on the John Man book about ?? places to see . also finally bought the book on the Varus's massacred legions and 2 murder mysteries.. Summer reading... these will have to do as a vacation 'journey'.

  17. What's the last book you read?

    in Libri

    Posted

    Near what is left of Antoine wall. But the story moves south. It was a dark time.

    and getting darker.

     

    btw.. for a truly depressing book - The Road by C MacCarthy. I rarely rarely rarely read the end of a book. But I did this one. I only read about half and I had to find out how it ends because I was not reading any more. truly truly depressing.

    Antoine wall...nice. I can imagine how dark it will be.

     

    ~What is The Road about?

     

    Post-apocolypse(hints at massive nuclear strikes). they made a movie out of it too.. I gather it is as depressing

  18. What's the last book you read?

    in Libri

    Posted

    Yes, during the begining of the reign of Constans(??). I really need to do some reading about the Painted People(who I think were the Picts) and the Attacotti(spelling). ( I have forgotten where I put the book last night and am just too tired/lazy to find it).

    So that would definitely be a dark time to be in Roman Britain then.

     

    ~Where is the main character based?

    Near what is left of Antoine wall. But the story moves south. It was a dark time.

    and getting darker.

     

    btw.. for a truly depressing book - The Road by C MacCarthy. I rarely rarely rarely read the end of a book. But I did this one. I only read about half and I had to find out how it ends because I was not reading any more. truly truly depressing.

  19. What's the last book you read?

    in Libri

    Posted

    Just finished re-reading The Frontier Wolf by Rosemary Sutcliff. She truly knows the mood of the retreating Empire.

    Thanks for reminding me, I have to read that book...

     

    ~Were is the story set? Is it still Roman Britain?

     

    Yes, during the begining of the reign of Constans(??). I really need to do some reading about the Painted People(who I think were the Picts) and the Attacotti(spelling). ( I have forgotten where I put the book last night and am just too tired/lazy to find it).

  23. Write in books that aren

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    Avery NoteTabs

    Isn`t that a nice little gadget, should be very useful for everyone that want to take notes in books he has to give back to the library, or want to sell them later. A very practical solution should be those clear sticky notes! Avery NoteTabs come in 3 inch x 3.5 inch and 3 inch x 7.5 inch Amazon describes it pretty good in their product description...

    wow... this would have been so wonderful when I was student... but stickies werent even around!

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