... Yes, Noah, the British Kings do claim their ancestry from Brut, brother of Aeneas,in the Aeneid by Virgil; who lost his way after Troy and ended up...
20287
Mette
cornelia_coc...
Feb 1, 2005 9:26 am
in another volume of "Assemblage - the Sheffield graduate journal of archaeology". Review of Pompey the Great by Pat Southern ...
20288
Mette
cornelia_coc...
Feb 1, 2005 9:28 am
surfing for other interesting, but later material I fell over this online magazine "Assemblage - the Sheffield graduate journal of archaeology". And one of the...
20289
Mette
cornelia_coc...
Feb 1, 2005 9:34 am
Other reviews in Assemblage that might be of interest to many of us: The Heirs of King Verica. Culture and Politics in Roman Britain by Martin Henig....
20290
Mette
cornelia_coc...
Feb 1, 2005 10:01 am
and I have probably overlooked some. Go and have a look at the fun page too. "Commensalism and common sense: a new approach to archaeological ceramics" by John...
20291
mingbop@...
sherbetstraws
Feb 1, 2005 10:12 am
ohhh I love this...the sense of time marching on and on and on ! it's so exciting....
20292
mingbop@...
sherbetstraws
Feb 1, 2005 10:27 am
...I don't understand--I know this is OT-- how the nazis raved on about aryans then ??? I thought they valued blond scandinavian looks, how does this connect...
20293
khakiberetman
Feb 1, 2005 10:31 am
In fact, we can move the question to another angle: just how hellenized would the Massaliot elite still be in the time of Marcus Aurelius? Certainly, by...
20294
david meadows
rogueclassicist
Feb 1, 2005 10:37 am
~ This Day in Ancient History ~ Classical Words of the Day ~ Akropolis World News ~ Go Tell the Spartans ~ Whither Father Foster? ~ Nuntii Latini ~ Translating...
20295
khakiberetman
Feb 1, 2005 10:48 am
An entertaining question, Noah, because actually the Merovingians claimed not to descend from Jesus but... the Trojans! This is complete legend of course, but...
20296
Richard
gauiscaecilius
Feb 1, 2005 12:19 pm
I am of the opinion that most of the higher echelons of Massiliate society spoke Latin, Greek and Gallic equally and depending on who they were dealing with....
20297
Richard
gauiscaecilius
Feb 1, 2005 12:22 pm
A very succinct summary of evolution. It would be intersting to have seen what Lucrtius would have done in that Roman form the epitome using the "Origin of...
20298
Nick
bazarov01
Feb 1, 2005 1:16 pm
Hi All, I recently became a new menber to this group, so I'm just saying "hi". Nick...
20299
mingbop@...
sherbetstraws
Feb 1, 2005 1:55 pm
HI NICK ...just dont talk about religion !! please ! Unless it's a roman one ! mary in scotland...
20300
johnmcneill_162000
johnmcneill_...
Feb 1, 2005 3:58 pm
Perhaps Caucasians like me are descended from the Aryans as the Nazis thought. However, if they came from Iran I doubt if they were blond and blue eyed. ... ...
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Michael Mccarthy
sokar90805
Feb 1, 2005 4:00 pm
Some of the educated may have spoken Latin but I would suspect that the bulk spoke a patois of Gallic and Latin that evolved into French....
20302
johnmcneill_162000
johnmcneill_...
Feb 1, 2005 4:01 pm
You don't live on the islands do you? I believe that the McNeill clan lived on the island of Barra. The book 'Whisky Galore' was based on this island I...
20303
me-in-@...
caesariensis
Feb 1, 2005 4:06 pm
They may have acted collectively because they lived collectively. Even in modern Italy, family ties outweigh everything else. This is part of the Mafia the ...
20304
Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Feb 1, 2005 4:12 pm
Actually, when studying about the people encountered by Alexander the Great, I read that there were, indeed, blonde and blue-eyed people in northern Persia. -...
20305
me-in-@...
caesariensis
Feb 1, 2005 4:13 pm
The very distinctive tall blonde physique of Scandinavians and overall Teutonic inability to pronounce Indo-European correctly suggests Hitler may have been ...
20306
mingbop@...
sherbetstraws
Feb 1, 2005 4:29 pm
john i dont live in the islands but i holiday and weekend there. yes barra is full of macneils and the film wis magic was it not!...
20307
khakiberetman
Feb 1, 2005 7:06 pm
An important element to take note of, in the early and middle period of the medieval age the Provence region was that with the most brilliant cultural and...
20308
Mary AsaWoman
asawoman
Feb 1, 2005 7:39 pm
I must say that I have seen blue-eyed blonde Iranians, not very many, but enough to make me notice, when Iran has been featured on the 6 o'clock news. In fact,...
20309
Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Feb 1, 2005 7:57 pm
I've found a website that helps you create a free instant online survey that you can then cut and paste into any web page! (http://www.groovysurveys.com/) So,...
20310
Gary Freze
ballistaimed...
Feb 1, 2005 8:55 pm
Hi Mary, Ironically, I was married to a blond haired blued eyed Iranian woman for almost 9 years who is a devout Zoroastrian, although...
20311
nancy in chicago
nljfs
Feb 2, 2005 1:16 am
Nazis -- Hitler was looking for a perfect "non-adulterated" race. Therefore, that's where he went with the Aryans. From the deep past of Europe and India....
20312
nheck8226@...
noah_heck
Feb 2, 2005 2:29 am
Did anybody not claim to be descended from the Trojans? And why the Trojans? Why not Carthaginians, or Thebans, or Hittites or some other destroyed empire? ...
20313
vaughan jackson
vaughanjackson
Feb 2, 2005 2:50 am
... Vaughan says: That is certainly true of early Rome, right up until the Empire. But for an alternative point of view on individual human rights, see Tony...
20314
vaughan jackson
vaughanjackson
Feb 2, 2005 2:57 am
Hi Nick, You can talk about whatever you like, including religion. Religion and paying respect to god/ gods was an important part of Roman cultural life. As...
20315
Michael Mccarthy
sokar90805
Feb 2, 2005 6:20 am
<<Did anybody not claim to be descended from the Trojans? And why the Trojans? Why not Carthaginians, or Thebans, or Hittites or some other destroyed...
