I'm a member of the History Book Club. I received these two books today ... The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome:Amazon:Books Address: ...
I will admit to somewhat neglecting the group I set up, partly being exhausted and irritated by a small minority of members and partly due to runnning out of...
<<When depicting Hygieia and Salus, Roman snakes have strong wriggly tails, Greek snakes have limp tails.>> Interesting! I wonder why? Salus and her Snake on...
<<I can understand it it as a flavouring for rice but it amazes me some of the foods the Roman's used garum on, deserts for instance.>> Speaking of rice - were...
[ancienthistory.about.com] Macedonians, Slavs, and Greeks The question of whether Alexander the Great was a Greek still stirs up controversy today. Mary Beard...
David Rohl's special TV program 'Pharaohs & Kings: A Biblical Quest' was FINALLY remastered & re-released last September, and there are only 5 copies left! You...
Didn't Alexander also claim descent from Achilles ? Perhaps on mother's side ? I've forgotten. Frank Morlock, The Man in The Iron Mask and other plays...
Caligula renamed September in honor of his father. But Germanicus was born in May and died in October. I wonder why Caligula chose September? Later Domitian...
Looking at the recent post on 428 A.D.,( which I just finished and is a quick, insightful, fun read), I wondered if anyone had read A.D.381 by Charles Freeman?...
Oct, thanks A simple view for now. But if I were a Roman, I wd wonder how dare you defy/contradict the cult of my gods (lares etc) when we Romans have been so...
Did you see the UK chef Hesten Blumenthal39;s recreation of this in his TV programe? It was when done properly really quite nice according to his dinner guests....