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 Blumenthal's recreation of this in his TV programe? It was when done properly really quite nice according to his dinner guests....
