Byzantium was founded as a colony of Megara, an Attic city, supposedly by a man named Byzas who gave his name to the city. The original Byzantium was located...
Theres been disputes between France and Britain over the Minquiers, a series of reefs between Jersey and Brittany for over a century. They're not= inhabited...
An interesting comparison between Rome and Byzantium is that both sported ramparts that were attributed to their early leaders, the "Wall of Byzas" being the...
Another parallel is that if Byzantium was founded as an amalgum of small settlements then so very llikely was Rome. Last nightI was reading a comment by Prof...
I am sure that it is as integral part of the human character to celibrate the anniversary of ones birth as to have rituals surrounding death. The Egyptians had...
Welcome to the Imperial Rome group where we discuss just about anything to do with Rome,Byzantium and the cultures that surround them. I hope that you will...
I LIKE that birthday club idea! I remember reading that amongst the things recovered from the Roman forts on Hadrian's wall was a birthday party invitation,...
Yes it was one of the most famous of the Vindolanda tablets. I always wonder if they were as close friends as they sound because it was written in terms of...
Since everyone else seems to have commented on Byzantion's earliest history and then leapt ahead to the Constantinople period (about which I know next to...
If it did happen as described, the theft of the gold of the Cimbrian Celts captured in Tolosa would have to be just about the largest robbery in history as...
What does Cimbrian Celts mean ?? ... From: Mark Passehl To: CiceroSociety@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [CiceroSociety]...
It was a phase I pulled from another web site but I understood it to mean the group of Gaulish tibes of celtic origin collectively called the Cimbrii. ... ...
As someone who works in London and wanders around the central area on a day to day basis I am used to seeing London's neo-classical architecture particuarly...
Avete Imperator potentissime et al. I have been reading about Roman eating habits. It looks as if they ate almost anything. Delicacies included sow's womb,...
The satirical poet Martial was very keen on young slave boys. Nobody appears to have objected to this. Martial's epigrams do not rhyme. I believe that this was...
I was wondering whether the Cimbrii aren't usually understood to be Germans rather than Celts? ... to ... called ... which ... than ... are ... times ... of ...
oops yes they were. But they had druids which suprises ne as I didn't realise since that anyone other than Celts practiced druidism. Also was were Germanic...
Well I am not sure about hanging round toilets but the baths were a major recreational and business venue. Just in the way that in eighteenth century London a...
Richard, I have not heard that the Cimbri had druids, and would be interested in your source for that. I think you will find that the Cimbri have nothing to do...
I found several referances on different sites but I have now traced them back to a single source Brewers Ditcionary of Phrase and Fable. In an attempt to find...
I am reading a book about Martial's epigrams. He was born in about AD 40. He seems to have been fairly popular. He beats his slave cook and molests his child...
A pair of bronze forceps found in the Thames were probably used by worshippers of Cybele to stop themselves from bleeding to death after castrating themselves....
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Richard wrote: I am used to seeing London's neo-classical architecture particuarly churches. I do this to such an extent I don't really think about what they...
Thanks Richard, The Roman campaigns into western Gallia (107-6 BC) and theft of the pillaged Tolosan gold, in the context of the mass migration of the Teutoni,...
Please do and if I may suggest copy over the link to the Maison Carrée it looks so much like so many churches minus their spire of steeple. St Peters Eton...
Having checked a number of sources it wa only the priest of Cybele who were supposed to be castrated. Thet lead theie folowers in orgiastic rite just to add...
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