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Ave: Those who wish to supplement their viewing can also pick up: William H. Stahl, Roman Science, Origins, Development and Influence to the Later Middle Ages,...
The BBC have made a dramatised documentary of the dramatic trial of Sextus Roscius who was Cicero's first big defense speach. It will be shown at 21;00 Friday...
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Hello everyone. Not often I contribute but here is something I didn't learn until recently. Everyone remembers Derek Jacobi's portrayal of Claudius in the BBC...
Hi Doris, I remember Patrick Stuart in that roll. He sure looked different with curly hair don't you think? It is amazing where he turns up - I liked his role...
Actually, that was Patrick Stewart, an English actor from Manchester, who played the part of Capt. Jean-Louis Picard in Star Trek and the role of Sejanus in I...
For those of you that have not read Steven Saylor's "Roman Blood", this is the case that Gordianus the Finder investigates in Saylor's first novel about him....
Have you read his newest "The Tyrant" about Dionysius of Syracuse? I have a short abstract about it in Roman Times. - Libitina Mary Harrsch Network &...
I was practicing with my new digital camera today to prepare for my trip to Rome next week and photographed some of the early Chinese and Korean antiquities on...
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... played Sejanus.< ... played the part of Capt. Jean-Louis Picard in Star Trek and the role of Sejanus in I Claudius. Mary+cats< Yes, I knew that Mary-he...
Actually it was a wig. I've heard Stewart went bald around age 18. He was frightfully good as Lenin in whatever that other BBC series was. He is good at his...
I also wanted to remind any teachers in the group that I have granted a Creative Commons license on all of my images so they can be freely used in the...
I see that a recent paper by two Coastal Carolina University scholars blames the Romans for a loss of medical knowledge that occurred in the fifth century,...
I see that the University of Chicago is hosting a conference to explore the classical origins of demons and the cultural development of exorcism practices....
In a message dated 3/3/2005 7:19:04 AM Mountain Standard Time, sally.gold@... writes: Hair? It's astonishing how many men prefer to be bald these days ...
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It will soon be Spring, thank goodness. The vernal equinox is on 20 March. I wonder if Easter is a Spring celebration or if it coincides with an historical...
<< I wonder if Easter is a Spring celebration or if it coincides with an historical event (the resurrection of Jesus)?>> Easter ( in the WEst) is the first...
That was just the overt justification for his putting away of her. Use some common sense when reading history, don't you realise that society was as false and...
Easter was originally a pagan festival called " Eostre", which celebrated new birth in livestock at springtime.(Hence the eggs remains as a symbol of that new...
ARE you emailing them or posting direct. The latter method I suspect would be faster. Failing that find out what the acceptable sacrfice is for Mercury as the...
I post direct. Perhaps msn is trying to discourage Yahoo by slowing it down. I believe sacrifices are illegal these days, like almost everything. ... suspect...
