Does anyone know if there will be any kind of public re-enactment in LA between July 27 and August 3? I happen to be in LA during that period, and it seems to...
And a link to Lejre Experimental Center http://www.english.lejrecenter.dk/ Experience Denmark's past in beautiful surroundings. Here nature and cultural...
When Hannibal invaded Italy he counted on support of disgruntled Roman allies or subjects to swell his ranks, among those, Etruscans. However, you can point...
Incidentally, many of Charlemagne's scribes were Anglo-Saxons trained in Britain's great monasteries, chief of which was the abbot Alcuin of York! ... mention...
Indeed one of the chief influences on the Code Napoleon (compiled in the early 1800s) was Roman law. Napoleon even advertised this highly in pamphlets and...
It has been the Emperor Antoninus (138-161),(chosen as the successor of Hadrianus because of his experience as a jurist and administrator), who has introduced...
Welcome to the Imperial rome group where we discuss just about anything that has a link to Rome and the cultures that surround her. I hope that you will want...
It is an interesting study in society and power how Rome when weak was willing to compromise but as her power grew tolerance declined. When Rome didn't have to...
Good point, Mr Gaius! One could almost envisage a study of Roman history as "how to cope with greatness"! Too many victories result in over-confidence. That...
In a message dated 7/1/2003 2:53:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, mettek@... ... Ave, Mette! Although I will be out of town that weekend, you can likely hook...
OK, the following elements were missing: Sulla's red hair Crassus Cicero Clodia Pulchra (who should be in every movie about ancient Rome) BTW, I didn't think...
Well, not only was Richard Harris too old but the politics and personality of Sulla was all wrong as well. Sulla's "reforms" were intended to restore power to...
Thank you very much. I think I will bring my peplos/stola anyway. I actually happens to be in LA for two weekends, but I have actually booked the 27th as I...
I've been looking for a definate description of the Saxons of the Dark Ages physical appearance. Surely the stereotype of the big blonde warrior isn't true....
Mary, yes i also noted those things you mentioned. Well hollywood has to have poetic license for good entertainment. At least someone attempted the project ...
The Jutes invaded Kent and originated from Jutland i.e. the mainland part of Denmark. The Saxons would be from Saxony in modern day Germany. I don't know about...
I think the cause of the laments is the lack on knowledge about Etruria. A lot of it would be removed by the discovery of a Latin- Etrusan dictionary! ... ...
In a message dated 6/27/2003 5:14:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... It simply turned into the Catholic church...and American Catholics have been trying to get...
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... Absolutely, the presence of many derived vernaculars on the Continent was causing some erosion of classical forms in the Latin language, must in the same...
... Such is Hollywood. Even the weaponry is out of place in their Westerns, the epitamy of North American culture. Anyway, if these shows, though partially...
The problem with Hollywood mistranslating, misinterpreting, missing just about everything, etc., in a historical movie applies not only to the Romans, but to...
Offa was in contact with Arabs as well because he designed a coinage around theirs. Whether this was trade or raid, direct or indirect or whether there was any...
the Saxons weren't straight from Saxony. That is a province far in the old DDR. They appear to have been surprisingly ignorant of Roman ways and the accent in...
Part the second. ie The bit I forgot. The Angles come from the Angle (ie hook, as in Angling) of Denmark. That was a peninsula somewhere on the north-west...
