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Those freak babies frighten me more than the thought of Cato eating them.
Most certainly...
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G-Manicus, these are awesome
The babies on the RE cover are too much...
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I happened to like:
You ultra-right renegade! & You half-baked stooge!
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Obviously this reply is quite a bit untimely but I wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes!
I had a bachelor party the next day and so the idea was to lay low but it didn't happen... We had a lot of out of town guests in the house and ended up sampling many fine beers, wine, tequilla, etc...
A good birthday but not a great one.
You guys are the best & I have missed the community tremendously in my absence
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Quick little revisit to this thread because I've recently become enamored with a band by the name of Pharoah's Daughter whose front-lady: Basya Schechter is Jewish. PD's songs are usually in some way adaptaions of Jewish-Arabic spiritual poetry/music (typically sung in Aramaic & Hebrew) and when I was first listening to the new album I was caught off gaurd by a song in which I actually understood what was being said; there were Spanish words in there!
Turns out to be a couple of songs in sung in Ladino adapted from Judeo-Spanish poets from the 11th-15th Centuries. Really quite awesome.
Of course, I thought about the Doc & this thread immediately.
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This sounds every bit like what is depicted on the Iceni coin. I've heard it said somewhere that they used chalk (and Siculus says lime), but several of the bog bodies feature something different, a mixture of oils and resins that would have stiffened the hair in the same manner. But the style does not appear to resemble dreadlocks - it seems to stand on end for one thing - it is something altogether different. Nor does it look quite like spiked hair.
Thanks for reminding me of that Edgewaters, the Clonycavan man (and his mohawk) brings up an interesting point in regards to Ireland not being as isolated in the 4th ~ 3rd Centuries BC as people once assumed.
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"They uncovered a pistol, a buoy knife, whisky flasks, a set of false teeth, two dog skulls and a blade from a set of sheep shears."
What an egregious & ignorant mistake if my assumption is correct that they mean a Bowie Knife.
Come on ABC! This is a Bouy...
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Of course that's not true, argue that ti is would just be stupid. However someone who knew a lot about the Roman war machine did write that some 2000 years ago and therefor I get the feeling that ambushes wasn't as common as they may seem when you see a chart of battles during a millennium.
Or more particularly they weren't common to the Romans in the Levant & Near East which was Justin's real sphere of experience?
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"The Romans are never caught unexpectedly by an enemy."
This of course is balderdash...
The Iberians, Lusitanians and Ligurians seemed to have been very adroit at laying ambushes, in fact it also seems to have been their primary tactic in fighting the Romans. I would argue that is why Hispania took so very long to fully passify.
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Well Spittle,
Your source is pretty well correct insofar as we can tell. Opium was indeed widely used in antiquity. In fact there was a booming opium trade monopolized by the Cypriots during the end of the Bronze Age where it was shipped in miniature poppy shaped amphora as far off as Sardinia.
Thucydides mentions a mixture of poppy, flax oil and honey being the primary item smuggled by swimmers to the Spartans at Sphacteria when they were withstanding a siege there and Pliny of course discusses the medicinal virtue of the poppy.
Regardless, there isn
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Nice work MPC, very nice & complete overview.
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I do feel like I've seen that somewhere... But for some reason I want to say it was attributed to tribe near the Black Sea?
However, in regards to the Gauls specifically, I checked Strabo which would have been a likely source and this is all he says (4.4.3): "The Gauls wear the sagum, let their hair grow, and wear short breeches."
I will concede that it may show up somewhere else anecdotally in a discussion regarding another country but in his book on Gaul it does not.
When I get a chance I'll see what Pliny says.
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One thing that I can't figure out for the life of me (& apparently baffles professional scholars as well) is the dynamics behind Hera's cult importance in Archaic Greece...
Why would some of the most grandiose early sanctuaries be dedicated to Hera (Heraion) especially in city states which owed their prosperity to sea-borne commerce like Samos, Corinth & Argos when Homer and general mythology offer no explaination and paint her in an almost derisory light?
I have some ideas but they would be SWAG's at best...
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Corinth, Greece?
It certainly looks like the Acrocorinth in the back ground which lead me to thinking that certainly is the Temple of Apollo there.
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As I'm sure you know, every book seems to lack that data! Regardless I found it to be a satisfactory primer for the subject. I'm more disappointed with the periphery that the Euboeans are regaled to in Snodgrass' book.I've read Boardman's book too, but it was a bit limited I thought ( I was working on the Apoikia at the time ). Also if I remember well it did lack some data relating to the first euboeian colonies.For the Euboean colonies I've had better luck with journal articles. David Ridgway's work in Italy and Pithekoussai is quite helpful.
I'm only reading Finley's next because someone gave it to me. Otherwise I'd read Coldstream's Geometric Greece next but I need to find a copy.
Is there anything that you would recommend that you've come across in regards to the Apoikia (Euboean specifically)?
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The political reality of the early Bronze Age was dominated by the city-state...
I concur with all the other posters that you did a great job on this Ursus.
However, I do take issue with the inherent confusion that lays in wait after this statement is presented. There is a big difference between Bronze Age 'Palace Centers' and a
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I have a pretty one track mind in regards to Archaic Greece at the moment...
- Last book I finished: The Greeks Overseas - Early Colonies and Trade by John Boardman
- Currently Reading: Archaic Greece - Age of Experiment by Anthony Snodgrass
- Next Up: The World of Odysseus by M.I.Finley
- Last book I finished: The Greeks Overseas - Early Colonies and Trade by John Boardman
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Salve, guys! Do you know if there was any significant relation between Rome and any of both sides during these wars?
If by relation you mean military aid, then no, it wasn't until the Mamertines beseeched the Romans for aid against the Carthaginian garrison at Messana (that they had invited...) that Rome got directly involved with the power struggle for Sicily. This of course was the beginning of the first Punic War.
There was indeed a 'significant relation' if one considers the pre-Punic War treaties between Rome and Carthage that are discussed by Polybius 3.22-3.26. It seems clear from the treaty amended for reasons surrounding the Pyrrhic War that they were bound to the same side. The other two at least hint at the fact that they would stay out of each other's business in their respective sphere's of influence.
Here is a great (but old) article that sheds some light on Rome's lack of intervention in Sicily until the 1st Punic War: A Forgotten Treaty Between Rome and Carthage
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Hope it proves to be a spectacular entry into the 20's
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Thank you for your kind words. By the way do you know of any UNRV like for the greek world ?
You're welcome & no I don't know of one, I guess the few of us who like the subject enough will just have to post more in the Hellenic folder here at UNRV!
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Aghatocles was a real danger with his attack on Carthage herself. Syracusa was a great power for a greek city state, but inferior to Carthage. Keeping a stalemate against a much stronger foe was a remarkable feat. All decisive battles were won by greeks.
But Agathocles
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But the event at Skyros couldn't have been the dispute between Odysseus and Achilles to which Bk 8 refers. By my recollection of events, Achilles was rather eager to lose his women's clothes and go off to war. All Skyros held for Achilles was Deidamia, who was rather more sorry to see Achilles go than the converse.
I totally agree. I was try to offer an alternative expalination and/or focus on the dangers of various translations of Homer. However, it was Friday evening with a fiance tapping her foot and looking at her watch I wasn't able to articulate myself very well and round out my post.
In essence I look at it the same way as Andrew, that it was quarrel completely independent of anything hitherto spoken of and was introduced in the Odyssey as a literary device to expose Odysseus' identity to his hosts.
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Cappadocia (incorporation seems mostly a result of changing allegiances in the civil wars)
Massilia was much the same way. Because the tremendous assistance it gave Rome during the 2nd Punic War (both finacially and maritime support) it operated independantly under its own constitution and government but with a high level of Roman rights until they shut their gates to Caesar during the Civil War.
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"You politically illiterate human scum, we will annihilate you with a fresh revolutionary upswing!"
You half-baked political dwarf, you have glaringly revealed your true colours!