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    ...and the winner are...

    By Viggen, in News,

    Congratulations!

     

    Three patricii (longstanding contributing members) have won each one copy of Philip Matyszak`s Expedition to Disaster.

     

    Sonic, Melvadius and Bryaxis Hecatee should receive their copy via Amazon within the next couple of days. :)

     

     

     

    If you would also like to receive a free book once in a while, participation in our forum, long-term involvement in fora discussion and a proven record of following forum guidelines will do the trick! :) A reminder about our social ranks can be found here --> Social Rank on UNRV

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    Book Review by Philip Matyszak -
     
    Almost everyone these days has a calendar close to hand, either displayed on the wall or digitally on an electronic device. We seldom think of a calendar as anything other than a means of reckoning the date, but as this book points out, calendars are much more than this.
     
    Sacha Stern takes us back to a time when the date was pretty much a matter of opinion, and the days of the months varied from city to city - as indeed did the names and lengths of the actual months. Sometimes the number of months was insufficient to fill the actual year, so that the calendar fell out of synchronization with the seasons, and at other times the year was extended at the whim of a ruling politician....
     
    ....continue to the review of Calendars in Antiquity by Sacha Stern
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    New: Reputation System

    By Viggen, in News,

    Great news; With our move to a brand new host we are now finally able to switch on the reputation system in our discussion forum. This allows members to like content and it works in the same manner as a "like" system often seen on social networking sites. This "like" system is a visual way for identifying good content and makes it more personal by leaving your name in the "like" list rather than it being an anonymous donation.
     
     
     
    Depending on your status on the forum you can give up to 10 likes a day (Patrician, or as little as 1 when you are a new member)
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    The concept of being able to pray to the Saints for intercession is one that is central to the religious beliefs of modern Christianity, especially with regards to the Catholic Church. Such an idea is now taken for granted by many Western Christians, as is the belief amongst many modern historians that the practice was established prior to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the transformation of the Eastern Empire into the entity now known as the Byzantine Empire....
     
    ....continue to the review of Debating the Saints’ Cult in the Age of Gregory the Great by Matthew Dal Santo
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    Would you like to star in Ben Kanes next novel, Eagles at War, which is about the massacre of three Roman legions in the German forests in 9 AD?
     
    A £10 donation to the charitable Romani Walk buys you one chance to win the chance to become a minor character in Eagles at War. If you donate £20, you get two chances and so on. (The Romani Walk is about me and two other authors walking 170 km / 110 miles in Italy in full Roman military kit, for charity. Medecins sans Frontieres and Combat Stress are the two charities)
     
    ...more on be a character in Ben Kanes next book
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    Forum back online

    By Viggen, in News,

    After a dreadful long year all issues with the host/site/database have been sorted out. All posts have been recovered. The site itself will be soon converted to a wordpress format and hopefuly all legal issues that i cannot reveal at this stage will be sorted out soon too...
     
    ....welcome back to the Forum
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    Constantine the Great - Warlord of Rome by Elizabeth James describes sweeping political changes, fierce battles for control of the empire, deep religious schisms. There's no doubting his place in history. Of the countless millions of human beings that have lived since our species wondered if there was a better place to live than Africa, maybe only a handful have ever been called 'The Great'. It's possible today to see his colossus, a broken statue of immense proportion casting him in the guise of the great god Jupiter, something I find an amusing anomaly considering his association with the rise of Christianity. There really ought to be a Hollywood epic about this man, but of course such a motion picture would tell its own story and not do him justice...
     
    ...read the full review of Constantine the Great: Warlord of Rome by Elizabeth James
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    Klingan is a long time member of UNRV and has posted several reviews at the site. He is also a Ph.D. candidate at Uppsala university where he writes about ancient Greek water supply system and water storage." We asked some questions...
     
    ...to the Interview with Klingan
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