I read that Metellus Pius and Pompey the Great received a joint triumph for the Sertorian War. I wonder what the logistics were? Did they ride in the same...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Jul 11, 2012 4:57 pm
X-rays reveal secrets of roman coins. Like magic . . ....
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Jul 13, 2012 9:41 pm
And I forgot to get him a card . . . About Ancient History: Great Caesar's Ghost - It's His Birthday, Again From N.S. Gill, your Guide to Ancient History ...
I was hoping that Claudius' elephant would have been portrayed in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games but alas that's not to be....
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Jul 31, 2012 3:42 am
Ancient wrecks found off Athens coast Independent Online News [South Africa], July 27 2012 Archaeologists have discovered six ancient wrecks off the Athens...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 1, 2012 4:14 am
Ancient bones found in archaeological dig at village school The East Anglian Daily Times [UK], July 28, 2012 ARCHAEOLOGISTS working in west Suffolk have...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 1, 2012 4:28 pm
The Emperors Claudius, Pertinax, Justinian...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 3, 2012 3:29 am
House of the Telephus Relief: raising the roof on Roman real estate The Guardian [UK], 23 July 2012 For almost two millennia, the piles of wood lay undisturbed...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 3, 2012 5:17 pm
The kind of stuff they wrote about in "The Grass Crown" . . . Rome 1st Century B.C. Chronology The first century B.C. in Rome corresponds with the last decades...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 3, 2012 5:21 pm
[about.com] Roman Bikini A recent news article on bras and corsets in what I look at as the modern era (since Shakespeare) has elicited some interest in this...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 3, 2012 10:42 pm
I'm a member of the History Book Club and this book is among the current selections. Rome: An Empire's Story:Amazon:Books Address: ...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 9, 2012 5:11 pm
I hate when that happens . . . ... [Then there's always the Yellowstone caldera] I hate when that happens . . . > > ‘Super volcano’ could kill millions...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 12, 2012 12:41 am
I know Metellus was given the name Pius because of devotion to his father. And the Emperor Antoninus Pius got it because of his care for his father-in-law. ...
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Volker Bach
carlton_bach
Aug 12, 2012 4:50 am
The Kleiner Pauly says for much the same reason: his effort to rehabilitate his father. He was very concerned about the memory of Pompey even...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 12, 2012 6:16 pm
Thank-you for your input on why Pompey's younger son Sextus was called "Pius". Maybe Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius Neptuni Filius could be considerd the last...
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Volker Bach
carlton_bach
Aug 12, 2012 9:20 pm
... For a given value of "republican", I guess. Sulla might have tolerated someone like Pompey the Great, whom Sextus admired and tried to rehabilitate, but I...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 13, 2012 12:47 am
Rather than Lepidus maybe Octavian and Antony ought to have chosen Sextus for the Triumvirate?...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 19, 2012 5:29 pm
43 B.C. - Octavian, also known as Augustus Caesar, convinces Senate to elect him Consul. (Don't forget to tell your friends)...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Aug 27, 2012 2:49 am
'Village' which may pre-date Romans discovered at Ipplepen Herald Express [UK], August 23, 2012 ARCHAEOLOGISTS digging for evidence of Romans in South Devon...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Aug 30, 2012 2:41 am
This link says that the Pompeian password was "Apollo". But I was just reading Appian who says that it was "Hercules Invictus". Can someone tell me which was...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Sep 1, 2012 4:13 pm
The Emperor Domitian renamed the month of September "Germanicus" and October "Domitianus". In English as Julius morphed into July and Augustus into August I'm ...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Sep 4, 2012 3:57 am
Gn Pompeius Magnus has recently become one of my heroes. Pliny compares him to Alexander, Hercules and Liber (Bacchus) Cicero compares him to Scipio...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Sep 4, 2012 4:29 am
31 August besides being the birthday of Caligula is also the birthday of Commodus. Commodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Wikipedia Mobile Address: ...
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Sep 5, 2012 12:33 am
It's in Plutarch's "Pompey" part 13 that tells of Sulla giving Pompey the title of "Magnus"....
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David / Amicus
alexiuscomnenus
Sep 5, 2012 4:23 am
When Pompey the Great dedicated his theater complex he exhibited an Indian rhinoceros. The unicorn legend ultimately derives from stories about the Indian ...
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Robert Blau
rb2717
Sep 7, 2012 4:53 am
Review: 'Rome: An Empire's Story' Many of those interested in the history of Rome and late antiquity will love Rome: An Empire's Story, by Greg Woolf, a...
