Auris Arrectibus
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Here's hoping for a quick win:
The Cave of the Cybelle?
Yep, that's right.
Another example of a very poor conservation of Italy's heritage.
The site of Cumae, the akropolis is above, is a mess and polluted.
The girl in front is my daughter of 9 years old and she was fascinated
about the story of the Sybille of Cumae and the encounter with Aeneas.
The steamy underworld should be nearby as we visited the Solfatara
crater. The fact that our way of writing the ("latin") alfabet could have
started here was also inspiring.
Ah well, easy maybe, but not less important. In a few years it cold have
collapsed.
Over to you Ghost!
Jeroen H DeLange,
Amsterdam
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Spectari salutem dat
So, guess this one!
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Hi Bryaxis,
I guess it could be Abritus, near the nowadays industrial centre of the city of Razgrad.
The event that took place in this area was the battle of Forum Terebronii in July or August 251 AD, inwhich the Goth Cniva defeated and killed emperor Decius (and his son).
It was destroyed by the Avars at the end of the 6th century.
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Good attempt Auris, but unfortunately it is not the palace, you're looking too far in the barbarian times, at the time of Omurtag the city we're looking for had been destroyed for a bit more than two centuries...
Amai!
Dan moet-ik ut twee eeuwen eerder gaan zoeken!
Ben dis-donc!
Je dois chercher deux si
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Hi Bryaxis,
Did some diggin' in Bulgarian history.
I guess it's the palace of Omurtag ....
And the event you mentioned could be the translation of the bible by Wulfila at Nicopolis ad Istrum.
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Another try for url of the "posted image": http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompeya,_el_Vesuvio_y_su_alcance.jpg
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I agree with the two posts above, Oplontis is a must see! And a word of advice to that. A lot of people want to visit Stabia, which I did 2011. It is a (number of) site(s) but you have really seen everything it has to offer just by visiting Oplontis. Not to mention that it is exceedingly difficult to get to Stabia so you'll probably end up just looking for it a whole day.
You're right Klingan, it was really a wild safari-trip to get to Villa Arianna and Villa San Marco. From our campsite in Sorrento (pretty nice view at the Vesuvio) it should have been about 15 minutes to get there,
but I found myself driving around in circles at 40
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Quote right - it is the Arles Cryptoporticus (well done Bryaxis Hecatee). It is an unusually large space below the forum. Structurally it was almost certainly built to give a level surface to the forum on otherwise sloping ground, and so may have been at least partly above ground when first built (mainly depending on what else was built around it, I suppose). No-one knows to what purpose it was put.
If you're in Arles, search it out - it's a huge, eery space that you can wander in for quite some time. Plenty of little offshoots and so on you could easily miss. To find it, locate the Place de la Republic, and the Cleopatra's needle that once graced one end of the nearby Roman Circus. Walk north and enter the Mairie/Hotel de Ville. The entrance to the Cryptoporticus is a fairly anonymous looking desk immediately on the left. It closes at lunchtime.
Over to Bryaxis Hecatee for the next thrilling instalment.
Damn, too late!
Last May I was in Arles for a week (right above it, in Hotel du Forum).
'Took me two days to find the entrance of the Cryptoportiques, and even the owner of the bookshop, just at the opposite of the Mairie, couldn't tell me.
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Pompeii was a mess, this summer. Streets were closed and facades of houses badly shored.
To walk around in the city was only to experience the idea of everly day life in a roman city.
Herculaneum was a relieve! And less touristic in the summertime. No thanks to Italian bureaucracy.
But, if you really want to visit a well preserved huge house, I recommend the villas at Oplontis
(http://oplontisproject.org/) nearby Pompeii. What a marvellous job! Also with help from abroad.
When you visit the Naples area, I suggest to visit the three of them in this order. Next thing to
do is to visit the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
And afterwards, take a pizza and read Robert Harris "Pompeii", while nipping your limoncello('s).
I like the Italians a lot, but preserving their roman heritage, they obviously need a lot of help.
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Looks grey to me ....
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This is more what you expected: Dna Tribes (study completed in 2010).
Jeroen de Lange, Amsterdam
(brown-hair, brown eyes, dark-skin, with an documented family-genealogies dating back to 1566 in the North of Holland,
could there be a gypsy or southern europe, e.g. during spanish occupation, offspring in our family that was silently
accepted as their own?..... could not explain otherwise why I look "mediterranean" )
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If it's not French, it could only be the The Roman Theatre in Volterra (located at Vallebuona), which was built in the late first century BC, and fell into disuse in the 3rd century, leaving room for baths to be built. These days, it's used for the annual celebration of International Festival of Volterra.
GOC,
Volterra it is!
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Hi all,
Try professor Bryan Sykes for genetic roots: The 7 daughters of Eve
Here's a review of his work: 7 daughters & 27 Step Diaghters of Eve/
Latest book: DNA USA - A genetic portrait of America
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Personally I don't go for tattoos but if you are intending using a Heraldic image associated with your family name then messing about with either the family crest or the associated motto is a really BAD idea.
The next thing you know the College of Heralds will be round demanding you get it corrected or rather since it is to do with Scottish heraldry it will be a representative from The Court of the Lord Lyon.
Hi Mel,
It seems like Latin tattoos have taken the tattoo world by a storm, since Angelina Jolie got one.
But you're right, they can easily go wrong.
A Latin tattoo translater could help one out for just 10 dollars..........
Don't like tattoos either,
Jeroen
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Looks French to me.
Hi Ghost,
No, not French.
The theatre dates back to the first century BCE.
Try another country,
Auris
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Lectori spectatorique salutem dat,
Guess what city this is ......
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I'm at present finishing a novel on Galla Placidia - and I fully agree with all those who feel she (also) deserves a movie. She has been portrayed not once but twice, though, both by Alice Krige and by a French actress in a 1950's film. Marketing her may be a bit more difficult than, say, Cleopatra, but in view of all the topics her life touches on, and given a catchy title - e.g. "The Empress and the barbarians"? - it should not be impossible.
Petrus
Hi,
When is the release of your novel?
And maybe, could you tell us already what the focus of the story is about?
Very interested in the life and times of Galla Placidia, roots all over the mediterranean world outside the Italian peninsula, key figure in the succession of the Western Throne, Queen of the Visigoths for short but in mind for long and Empress in a very turmoiled period of history.
Jeroen de Lange,
Amsterdam
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Hi Mel,
Checked some photo's at the internet: Gheriat el-Garbia?
Jeroen DeLange,
Amsterdam
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Ah,well then: A structure at the Limes Tripolitanus, like the roman Fort of Gholaia?
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Sabratha!
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Leptis Magna?
Not the nicest part, though, if it's right.
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Hi Corax,
Renaissance painters (or close to that period) often depict Olympian gods with their symbols.
So, I suggest to search for "Council of the Gods", "Banquet of the gods" or "Feast of the Gods" and you will find what you are looking for.
For instance the painting by Giovanni Lanfranco(1625). Or the one by Raffaello Sanzio(1518). Or by Monsau.
There must be one to find on the web with enough pixels ......
Or maybe this one: Olympian Gods
Good luck,
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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I want the Roma Victrix Beaker @UNRV http://bit.ly/romavictrix
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Did you manage the trip, Auris? How did it go?
No not yet. I had to postpone the trip until this Friday.
Then I will be for a week and a half in Umbria (Sibillini Mountains) and the Marche (at the coast with my family),
so maybe not enough time to explore the lot: Good excuse to go there another time!
The Flaminian will be there next time aswell......
Jeroen H DeLange,
Amsterdam
Guess the ancient city!
in Vacatio
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Any clues Melvadius?
Looks not a "city" in the Mediterranean to me.
Somewhere at the Continent, north of the Alpes?
Jeroen H de Lange,
Amsterdam