Sextus Roscius
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This is what you'd take back, so I'd take a gun, lets give them a blast from the future eh. it would be a last defense item, probley only a single shot mini-pistol or something like that. As soon as I has used up all the ammo, I'd have it smelted down.
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Pardon my spelling, I meant Marrying, and I used the word Puella becuse I'm only in middle school, I'm still not quite to the point where if I think of people of my age as women. But if it suits you, I shal change it to Femina
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Me personaly, I'd bring back a ton of roman coinage (all in sestereces and denarii of course)
A latin dictionary
A copy of Tacitus (and any other history book I could find)
A sword
A gun with ammo
A large dark cloak, as well as a stylish blue tunic with a lovely greek geometric trim (something I saw a while ago and seems particularly attractive to me)
A recipe book
and what ever other junk I could fit in a backpack (since mine is now fairly stuffed)
What I do is go through passing myself off as a prophet with little "fits of prophecy" in certain special times to use only to my advantage. I could do this by using my history book and I could speak it in latin using the handy dictionary and the latin knowledge I have already. I'd eventually set up in Ravenna or a town like that. Once the time came around, I'd go and personaly change history by heading to Isreal and stoping christianity from existing
No offense to any christians, but I just think we'd be better off with out the huge relgious conflicts did more harm than he did good. Though that may be controversal. Then I'd head back and set up in Rome. Once Agustus finaly settled in the City, I'd make my way up the social ladder until eventually Agustus would talk to me, and I'd tell him to make Germanicus his heir using a "fit of Prophecy" and then I'd settle into a comfy life in a country villa living my ideal dream life. This is after finding an ancilla or femina that shares my views and buying (if a slave) or marrying her if she is free. From there, life just gets better and better till I die.Oh yes, I want the recipe book to cook something relitively ediable.
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That would be lovely I'm sure, anything will do. Thank you Pantaguthus.
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I'm looking for a site that can give me Anceint Greek fonts for free. I've scoured the web for a while to little avail, so I'd appreciate if anyone has a place for me.
Thanks,
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Now what I wanna know is this simply question:
Why the hell is it the JEWS that always get killed... They were stuck in the middle of the crusades, Hitler and the Nazi party hated um, palestine hates um... Whats so bad about the Jews? If anything, go after the punks and criminals, not to mention people who die their hair green (sorry, that just angers me immensly)
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I do like the Ideas, personally, I find that the Domus Auerius was a representation of Nero's personality, he was not a politician or Emperor, but a star. That is what he saw himself as, a celebrity.
I think we can relate the ideas presented in his Golden House and other places, to a modern day movie star or rich musician. On one hand, they all want two things, to be the best, and in this be the crowds favorite, to do something great for the world and more importantly, the people on it. They (often now a days in a weird sickening fashion) that doing that is contributing to the world, bringing about a new era (more so for them than anyone else) of happiness (for them mostly) and peace. This makes sense with the Ideas presented in the West Wing of the Golden House, that Nero should be the person bringing about this new era, not as an Emperor like Agustus, but as a star.
However, there is a flip side. He (like all stars) wants to enjoy themselves in what ever way they happen to find amusing at the time. This can be related to the East Wing, the themes of Bacchus, with all the wild parties, drinking and sick demented (at least in my view) joy. What more could one want, women and wine, the ultimate goal for any star. To raise them self to that bar where they can do what ever they want, when they want, no matter the consequences. This of course, was a given because Nero was a Emperor, and therefore had these abilities already. So that is what he did.
Ultimately, the Golden House is a great representation of Nero and his personality. The conflict of two themes, two separate life styles, and how they can not mix, and he wanted them to. Ironically, he had infinite power over every thing around him, but had no ability to control himself.
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Well boys, welcome to Isreali-Palestinian hell on earth for a long long time... this is gonna mean more fighting with the Arab-Isreali conflicts, quite honestly, I'm not up for it.
It is in times like this when the ability to take over a country and run it as your own, without anyone on the international arena paying much attention, other than disapointment they weren't there to do things first would come in handy...
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I see what your getting at, but I beleive what you portray SPQR to mean, is entirely different from what the Romans thought it meant, and when it comes to studing other cultures, it's far more important to think about things the way they thought about it, than take things as their literal definition.
Hope that made sense...
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I agree with Flavius on this one, it really has the same meaning. Things stayed the same even though the marian reforms occured. Just like the "Royal Marines" and such in Britian don't actualy serve the queen, though they used to. The name stays on, just not the meaning.
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Think about it this way, to write one-hundred in arabic we put: 100-three digits.
Wheras the Roman Numeral system allows the to write: C-one digit
It makes sense if you think about it that way.
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I support it.
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lets see, um...
6-shot revolver (w/ only a standard amunition box of rounds)
Military Grade Survival kit (from my uncles farm...)
Latin dictionary
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Insectophobia (at least I call it that) Basicaly scared of anything with 0, 1,3,5 or more legs...
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Me semper rogo, quid faceret Iulius Caeser?
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good, becuase I made a file before asking...
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is it free?
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Army field rations in modern day aren't alot, trust me, I tried living off them for a week, not very good either, but they are specialy made to keep you fit and running. I think the romans did this as well. Roman Army rations were not made to be tasty or to be served in huge quanities, just to keep soldiers running in tip-top condition.
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AQUEDUCTS
Aqueducts, these were the driving force in Roman sanitation, running water, and indeed holding up their lifestyle. Aqueducts allowed even the poorest in Roman cities to be treated to the amazing things that we today consider impossible to do 2 thousand years ago, such as flushing toilets, elaborate bath houses, and fountains. The most amazing thing is that aqueducts allowed people access to these pleasures for no charge at all. Surely aqueducts were among, if not the greatest feat of civil engineering completed by the Romans, or any culture at all. All of this came from a simple concept.
THE IDEA:
Aqueducts are a simple idea; you put a pipe of water leading to a city. The ancients realized this, but they had no way of pushing water along of a horizontal surface efficiently, so they had to use gravity. So as a revised idea, a slanted pipe runs to your city. Now the ancients would
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UNRV, Nationstates, nothing much else that might be of intrest to you, unless you have an intrest in realistic WWII games and other neat stuff.
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Oh my god! I knew there was something out there! I knew it...I say we colonize the place, make it part of America, also, we need to ask those mexicans why they never told us about this exotic land!
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Its impossible to thank The admin and our mods, as well as the comunity here at UNRV enough for the times they've given me. It was such a releif to come on the forum the first time, and to always have a group of people who I can voice my opinoins to and have intelectual discussions as well as having a good time.
I echo all thats been said as well, you really couldn't have done a better job, any of you.
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Uh oh, then you'll kick my butt in two areas, of the irony. Have fun with greek anyways.
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Welcome to UNRV! I hope you'll like it here. I'm sure you've taken the time to look around the forum so I shant bother you about that. Just, this thread would be more correctly placed in the Romana Humanitas or Imperium Romanorum forums.
As for info, the Romans did use metal nails. Wooden pegs were surpassed by that time, so the book is correct in saying that nails would've been used. Pegs migh have worked to hold the cross together, but to put things simply, you can't nail some one to a cross with wooden pegs.
However I welcome my fellows to correct me If I'm wrong.
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