Sextus Roscius
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Ah well, no match for me anyways...
Don't be too sure Sextus; i was quite secure in my knowledge that the up and coming Flavius Valerius Constantinus would not catch me in my post count. He showed me a thing or two lol
With no doubt, very wise Tobias. Though I think flavius has surpassed all of us. I was in the runnin with him for a while since we joined about the same time, but he took off. And his post count is inexplicably high. As for futurehistorian, I welcome the challenge.
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im a middle school student in the 7nth grade
One younger than me, quite honestly I'm surprised. Ah well, no match for me anyways... Nah just kidding...
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It's just an inbuilt thing I guess, a protection mechanism that says "This is us" and "that is them". Hope that makes sense
Yep, I think that puts a finger on it and why it's easy to find racial prejudice in all groups.
Indeed, personaly I beleive that all people are born Racist becuase thats how humans work, we are naturaly scared of something different from what we have.
If I were to walk into your house speaking in Klingon uttering something that sounded like complete giberish, it could really translate to something civilized and if you too spoke Klingon then we could go on to have a completely civilized and cultured conversation in our language of Klingon, but since you don't speak Klingon, you would be taken agasp and most likely look at me as if I were an idiot and then go on to do something rude or angry.
All said, I think Germanicus stated it perfectly in saying that it is a built in mechanism.
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Salvete! Today is the great and wonderful Saturnalia! May we feast and drink the whole day through!
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The Julio-Cluadian Dynasty is highly controlversal in the fact that it had both great (Agustus) and horrible Emperors (Caligula!) and so can be noted as the best, or worst, depending on who you refer to. All in all I'm opose to the Roman Dynasties simply becuase they were almost in a sense heredic, so I like to call it "selective hereditary rule".
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The Romans most likely had the greek idea of healthy body, healthy mind and so there was naturaly some distaste towards the disabled. But as mentioned by WotWotius there is a perfect example in the great Emperor Cluadius who was crippled but a man of great intelect. It is clear becuase he became Emperor that in Rome, even if one had a physical disadvantage, could go very far.
I think mainly the Romans viewed them with suspicion but accepted that they weren't complete idiots. It might depend on how one was disabled too....
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hahahaha, You make a good point Lost Warrior
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While the Praetorian Guard were certainly crack troops, they were mainly a use for control. A emperor was just as easily protected before they were around, personaly I see no point in having them. Thought they certainly were elite, and the true rulers of Rome in my opinion. They could choose who they wanted Emperor and such. There was nothing to stop them.
Though I don't know much about them in other terms, I think that they were important becuase if a insane Emperor was ruling, they could easily kill him without having to bring in a army or a riot which is certainly good.
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Highly agreed, I loved the book and am I fan of Steven Saylor who i think does a good job of tieing his characters in with history without disturbing how everything turned out. I've read "The Venus Throw" but I find that the first of the Roma Sub Rosa series, "Roman Blood" is much better, and It inculdes the person I'm named after, the infamous, Sextus Rocius!
By the way Flavius, have you read the other Roma Sub Rosa, and I agree with Cincinnatus that Catalina's riddle is good, but I still recomend that you read "Roman Blood" before you read the others or the plot might get confusing.
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Keep hanging around and some Saturnalia goodness just might go your way.
Might you care to elaborate, oh mighty Ursus
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Personaly I just put up the picture "Roman Decandence" for my background, but I think I'm going to change it as soon as I do picture...
Now its changed to this picture
Scaled down the image size. I like it...
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Thank you very much. I'm honored.
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Tomorrow is the official date for the Roman holiday Saturnalia. The day were master's switch places with slaves, gifts of silver are given to others, and all Rome feasts and drinks the night away. So I was wondering what we of UNRV are going to be doing for the holiday.
Oh yes, if anyone has a vegitarian Roman dish that can be made with relitively little money and time, please tell me.
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Worst general is Julius Caesar of course, and worst politician must be Cicero. Perhaps Marcus Aurelius or Diocletian.
I was about to slap you silly, I also agree that Nero was a horrible politician( only thing he ever learned was assassination).
Can't recommend highly enough Richard Holland's 'Nero : The Man Behind the Myth' (Sutton Publishing, UK)
for a new and convincing perspective on the most maligned emperor in Roman history. (His 'Augustus :
Godfather of Europe' is also excellent.) Nero was certainly the wrong man for the job, but would any of our
leading Stoics care to confess what they'd have done if they'd been the teenager handed control of Rome, its treasury and its starstruck women, or should we move that discussion to the baths ?
True words Aquila I must agree that while Nero certainly was the wrong person for the job, not many teenagers could handle the Roman Empire. I myself (a mere eight grader) doubt I would have any control at all after I became Emperor. Though if I could come to my sense's, I would try to do things well.
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true enough, I suppose I'm a little neglectent when it comes to schoo quality. I come from a very good school system (chapel hill-carrboro) in terms of public schools anyways. I do see your point in more urban cities certainly have a lower quality educational system. I think it depends most on the language spoken at home. If a child, combined with not being forced to use English, grows up in ahome where they speak, lets say spanish, all the time at home and never are forced to elarn English, they won't.
All and all, very true Ursus
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The death penalty hasn't meant much since crucifixion went out of style. In the old days they used to nail you to a big piece of wood, where you would spend several hours in agony in full public view. A greater tool of psychological terror I can't think of.
These days they simply stick a needle into your veins and you die a painless death out of public view. Big deal. Who is scared of that? I asked the same thing be done to my dog when it passed its prime, and considered it the merciful thing to do.
As a tool of terror, castration seems so much more effective. There isn't a man out there who isn't scared of losing his manhood (aside from a few wanna-be transsexuals, I suppose). I advocate castration for any violent crime with sexual overtones. For other serious crimes the chaingang method mentioned by Favonius works for me.
As far as Islamic terrorists, I believe they should be subjected to the same laws they would inflict upon us, such as chopping off their hands. It's poetic. Plus, it would deny them martyrdom and a heaven full of virgins.
I definatly agree, the death penalty has little real point that to satisfy the victim's family. It used to be a psychological terror. I heard a historian say this, though I can't remember who "it is far more effective to cause your enemy to route than it is to kill him" and I must agree. I think recently certain pacifists have said "well, the point is to have that person dead, so why not do it discreatly" which is certainly incorrect, the purpose of the death penalty is to deter further villiany.
And by golly it worked for the ancients, what makes is so much more horrible today?
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Thats worse than bad, at least the Bush administration is finaly doing something right and they are putting up stronger imigration laws and having more border defenses along the mexican boarder as well as stronger coast guard to stop cubans from entering the country. Personaly I'd been wanting them to put up stronger imigration laws for quite a while now. I've got nothing agianst people comming from other countries if they don't take up money and help the economy, but we've got to draw the line some where. Forigners are starting to eat up American business. As long as they don't get into politics too much, the last thing.
But I think the problem with the illiteracy rate is that so many forigeners can't speak proper english, I live in a town thats a university town, so we've got all different races, cultures, and languages spoken throughout the town, but I think we've got to draw the line. We've got to stop posting all our signs in different languages now, maybe that will force peopel to learn english, though it would be a bad move when refering to the immediate circumstances.
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that it absolutely insane.... but cool...
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All I'm saying is that, even though each case tragic, 27 people over 80 years isn't exactly a lot compared to all the innocents who have died in many other ways also carried out by the government. Yes they are tragic, but I don't think we should blow it out of porportion.
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If you are to be shocked by people being wrongly killed, I suggest that you find a better area to cry over, such as Allied incendiary bombings against Axis cities or another matter. When it comes down to it, no matter what descision is made on a large scale, some one is going to die, and you can't cry over that.
I'm sorry that there were inocent people executed but we humans aren't perfect. Consider the number of guilty people killed for the slaughter of others, and I think you'll find that the numbers are significantly comparable.
As for method of death, I agree with who ever it was that lethal injection is very inhumane. Personaly I'd request a painless poisen in a drink. I'd drink it, then die without pain. Thats my opinion on it. They should say to the prisoner
"you've got two choices, you can drink this glass of painless poisen, or we'll just shoot you"
The choice is obvious, no one can blame the state if some one chose death by bullet to a painless death.
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Indeed, poor Cicero. At least he was valiant and brave to the end, he didn't even make a sound after the hairpin was jabbed through his tounge. Well, I suppose that was after the end...
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No need to get alarmist Sextus
In an Australian Newspaper called the Daily Telegraph, i read a story about how two blokes of Lebanese descent were cornered on a beach in this area by one of these mobs. The mobs were giving all that spiel about how "our Grandfathers fought for our flag and our country, not so that you can come and pollute the country", and the moment one of the chaps said that they were born in Australia, and that the Australian flag was theirs as well, they were just set upon by the mob. If there weren't a few police around, they would have killed this pair of people, who were Australian born. None of these riots are indicative of the true feelings of the majority of Australia, but i'm afraid it does point out that many are not happy about multiculturalism, and don't worry, after i followed the case of the Lebanese Gang Rapists, i was ready to condemn multiculturalism as well, but i've long realised that these riots are definetly not true blue Australian.
I agree, the mobs are certainly not true to the majority, but the fact that even though you aren't going out in mobs, you still having negative feelings towards multiculturalism. This, consciously or not, means you have a dislike, no matter how slight, agianst a group. More specificaly, those not of your race. This gives a possibility, no matter how slight, for that feeling to be kindeled and to escalate into something more extreme.
Thought I suppose I should try and calm down. But when it comes down to it, I think its going to be far more important what ethnic group you are from and whether people consider you to be deserving. As you said the "our Grandfathers fought for our flag and our country, not so you can come and pollute the country" arguement is going in spark a lot of people off. In America that ones going to get a lot, especialy becuase all the most valiant people from WWII are dieing off, and that might leave some in a bad mood...
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well, there is no doubt that they lived outside the forts and followed the armies. Perhaps the camp prefect would get bored and decide to let the soldiers enjoy themselves
or simply they had slaves around. Who knows, I don't. -
Now if I could get one "formorly known as father-killer...(sextus Rocius commited patricide)
No he didn't, he was found not guilty. He was a victim of Crysoganus' conspiracies.
Ah, I've always had my doubts anyways. I know he wasn't found guilty though, Cicero made a valiant defence and saved the man's life. I've always used it as a joke and I would still like to get it made formorly known as father-killer becuase he was thought to be guilty for a while. It was a big trial at the time. Ah well.
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Indeed, thats well more than I can imagine. Perhaps we could guess, I'll say some where in the thousands. Estimates?