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14084
I love answering this question. I had to do it to get into Uni. I got hooked on Classics at Prep School, when I had a very enthusiastic headmaster who would...
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Mar 1, 2004
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14085
Be careful. It may be that Cambodian had and have less say in the matter than the victims of the Holocaust (which are not only Jews as you may think, but also...
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Mar 1, 2004
12:07 pm
14086
I am currently reading Gitta Sereney's (sp) "Speer - His struggle with truth" If anyone has ever doubted the evil of Hitler and his scum, this is a book to...
Bruce Gordon
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Mar 1, 2004
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14087
for me it was an all too short visit to Heculaneum and the frustration fo finding Pompeii closed the only time we could visit it. My memory is hazy of tose two...
Richard
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Mar 1, 2004
12:34 pm
14088
The story of Cincinnatus is quite bizarre from our modern point of view but you have to remember he lived in a period even more remote than the Rome most of us...
Richard
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Mar 1, 2004
12:42 pm
14089
The art form I love and understand most is music. It will not suprise those of you who know me that I have quite an interest I the history of music. So I can...
Richard
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Mar 1, 2004
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14090
I took two years of Latin when I was 12-13; that didn't get me interested, sad to say, although I can still recite a few lines from story #1 in the textbook. I...
Rebecca
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Mar 1, 2004
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14091
Well I still seem to be here. The discussions on Hitler etc. are very interesting. I do not believe in objective good or evil. If you were a slave in Rome you...
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Mar 1, 2004
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14094
Hello everyone, ... the ... Christians, ... Snip for space ... As our moderator Richard suggests I'll equate this topic to Rome. Certainly, throughout history...
Quintus Lanius Paulin...
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Mar 1, 2004
1:40 pm
14095
Salve I have seen the XX Legio and they are all fit as far I can tell. I am of the size of a well fed Roman Senator and could "play" that part well. I also...
Stephen Gallagher
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Mar 1, 2004
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14096
John, you are unaware of History. During the Roman Empire's days and earlier during the Greek Era a slave could be free and have all the rights in society but...
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Mar 1, 2004
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14097
Has anybody ever heard of Géza Alföldy (prof. of Heidelberg Univ. in Germany)? Has anybody ever heard of Géza Alföldy (prof. of Heidelberg Univ. in...
Gaieus
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Mar 1, 2004
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14098
... Fair question Larry, not at all tactless. I have found that in general the level of physical activity restricts membership. Or the activity for a...
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Mar 1, 2004
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14099
Ghengis and his hordes may come close. But when they massacred a population it was for strategic reasons, not because they did not like their parentage. The...
Bruce Gordon
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Mar 1, 2004
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14100
Rebecca, Always a pleasure to read your narratives. Ahhh, to be able to write like you. Jay Rebecca <author@...> wrote: I took two years of Latin...
Jay Latona
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Mar 1, 2004
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14101
Greetings, Yes ... he's quite well known as a social historian of ancient Rome. Why? regards, dm ...
David Meadows
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Mar 1, 2004
2:43 pm
14102
Inger, I think the right about slaves in the Roman empire is somewhere between John s and your opinion. Slaves could not reach high ranks in the Roman army (in...
Gaieus
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Mar 1, 2004
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14103
Salve Ioannes, From this point of view you are not right. What made the life of slaves in Rome bad was not the emperors! Indeed, from Augustus up to the mid...
Gaieus
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Mar 1, 2004
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14104
Right! In those days there weren't "rich" Roman families (in the sense we know them from the 2nd-1st century BC) but - more or less - wealthy farmers. Also,...
Gaieus
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Mar 1, 2004
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14105
David, From Tuesday to Thursday he's giving lectures at my PhD course here, in Pécs University (Hungary - after all, he's Hungarian)). He comes every year. ...
Gaieus
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Mar 1, 2004
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14106
Greetings, Alfoldy's *Social History of Rome* is pretty much a staple in North American university and college courses. Alfoldy is probably also a bit more...
David Meadows
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Mar 1, 2004
3:32 pm
14107
I would ask that this subject be closed as I know it is upsetting a number of people. It is a futile pusuit deciding who the most evil of a selection of...
Richard
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Mar 1, 2004
4:13 pm
14108
Gauieus, you are wrong in this case. For my manuscript the Gothic Mosaic, which I haven't had published because the editor wanted me to take a way my page-note...
Inger E Johansson
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Mar 1, 2004
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14109
Maximus Thrax became slave in an early age due to a specific situation which hardly ever is mentioned. But yes he was a slave but his father were no slave only...
Inger E Johansson
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Mar 1, 2004
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14110
We're beginning to see it now. ... From: Gaieus [mailto:gaieus_pannonius@...] Sent: Monday, 01 March 2004 1:10 To: imperialrome2@... ...
Christopher L. Wood
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Mar 1, 2004
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14111
Inger- do you have any sources on slaves holding rank in the military- I would be very interested to read them. I know that in the Late Empire, there are...
Frank Miranda
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Mar 1, 2004
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14112
"> Don't compare Roman Emperors with Hitler. ... The reason I joined this group was because it focused on Ancient Rome, an interest of mine since high school...
Mary AsaWoman
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Mar 1, 2004
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14113
I had hoped that we were on the tail-end of this topic Mary AsaWoman <marys2cats@...> wrote:"> Don't compare Roman Emperors with Hitler. ... The...
Jay Latona
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Mar 1, 2004
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14114
Ding-Dong, I never said it didn't happen. Again, don't give me orders. I am not going to click my heels and say "Jawohl Herr Obersturmbahnführer!" You Nordic...
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Mar 1, 2004
6:32 pm
14115
Chill out Herr Obersturmbahnführer. If you want to comment to me, take it off list. ... -- DECIMvS MERCATIvS VARIANvS a.k.a.: Marsh Wise LEGIO IX HISPANA COH...
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