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Hello Dr. Keaveney and thank you for answering our questions! The earliest period of Rome always intrigued me, especially that the Romans managed the complete assimilation of the Etruscans to Italic Rome in the Roman Republic. Now there comes my questions, how important is the study of the Etruscans to better understand the Beginning of the Roman Republic and what (if any) progress has been made in the research of the complex relationship between those two civilations?

My Type is INTJ Introverted 11% Intuitive 88% Thinking 50% Judging 22% ...what ever that means... cheers viggen

We are happy to announce that Dr. Arthur Keaveney has agreed to answer questions from our forum members. Every forum member can ask one question only (to make you consider what you would like discussed carefully), no follow up replies to keep the thread clean and to make it easier for the Professor to go through the questions. We also would like to point out to stick to your question to the area of his expertise, which is the period of the roman republic. After a week or two (depending how many questions we have) Dr. Keaveney will answer those which he thinks are the most interesting or applicable... Dr Arthur Keaveney is senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the Univeristy of Kent. He is teaching and researching in ancient history, Greek & Roman, particularly the Roman republic and Achaemenid Persia. Publications include Rome and the Unification of Italy, Lucullus; A Life and Sulla; The Last Republican [EDIT] Follow-up questions and relative discussion should take place in a new topic in the appropriate forum.

thanks Virgil for the tip, and Panthagatus, i was more thinking of fresh water fishing... cheers viggen

(this is probably more for my commonwealth friends) This was the greatest ODI (One Day International) ever played. Australia made a mammoth 435 and South Africa was able to chase it down with just one wicket remaining. Ponting for Aussies and Gibbs for S. Africa played mind blowing innings. Over 850 runs were scored in a day with most number of sixes ever hit. Bowlers had a terrible time with Mick lewis going for 116 of just 10 overs, the most expensive spell in ODI. Watch it and enjoy! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...0845704&q=gibbs (over an hour footage) I remember the (imo) previous best ODI ever, also between SA and Australia that SA lost by one wicket, (i think it was in the last WC semi-final) this is just awesome how those two teams compete... cheers viggen

Glenn Close... I dont think so lol folow up is Nicole Kidman Mia Hamm Ashley Judd

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Just wondering, was there a single language or dialects, or did various celtic areas speak completely different language, meaning they couldnt understand each other at all? For example if in Caesars times, a Celtiberian, a celt from Helvetia, one from Noricum, one from Gaul, one from Galatia and one from Britain would have met.(was there actually a chance that this could have happend?) How would they have communicated, a unifying dialect? each his own dialect that they could understand? or perhaps just latin or greek? Do we actually know anything to come to an answer? cheers viggen

Pretty nice, thought i have to share this http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/ancien...ies/default.htm

The number of years that modern humans are thought to have overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe is shrinking fast, and some scientists now say that figure could drop to zero. via Live Science

Bulgarian archaeologists discovered near the town of Rousse a stone with an engraved Latin inscription, once part of a defence wall. The inscription comprises of six lines. It informs of the erection of a major temple or public building. The name of the legate in Lower Misia and the 'Severiana' cohort are also mentioned. via Sofia Echo

Ecija, a small town in southern Spain, has paved over a treasure trove of Roman history to put in a parking lot. The Sunday Times of London said the last vestiges of the lost city known as Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi have been destroyed to build an underground municipal car park. via Upi.com

as the title says, just came in via the austrian press, the google translation is not really good but dont see any english coverage... (hackbrett means cutting board/block and Nashornsch

There is an exhibition (and i might visit it) in my area (Museum Klagenfurt) about the history of fishing.. (some infos via Google Translate including an amazingly well preserved logboat from the 6th century that was discovered in a lake in then province of Noricum (although probalby then under Theoderichs rule already)... A high resolution image of the boat that was found 6 years ago in a fresh water lake about 30 miles from my hometown you can see here http://www.landesmuseum-ktn.at/Resources/Einbaum.jpg ...anyway, what do we know about fishing in roman times? cheers viggen

China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs. But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught. more at Toronto Star

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I am sure it should be possible to add another font to the existing ones... The only one that can answer this for sure is Moonlapse though... cheers viggen

Justin was by his choosing a career-soldier. He knew little of politics and was not the wisest statesman when he became Emperor. However, through accepting the counsel of trusted advisors and applying a soldier

Ah, interesting, here is the direct link Rome: The Complete First Season, the Brits however get it even earlier HBO Rome Series

Italian archeologists have reportedly discovered the remains of a huge Roman villa near Florence -- the first ever in the popular tourist area. 'Villas like these were fully fledged factories for the production of wine, olive oil, meat, corn and other products,' said archaeologist Fausto Berti, who led the dig at Montelupo Fiorentino.'We`ve found big animal pens, warehouses and even a workshop for making ceramic vases. The owners were self-sufficient,' he told the Italian news service ANSA. full article at M&C

When the French look back, they generally trace the stirrings of national glory to Francois I in the mid-16th century or perhaps to Louis XIV 150 years later. Last week, they were reminded of a far earlier Paris, one that was still called Lutetia. On a Left Bank hillside, which carries the name of Sainte-Genevi

An international archaeology team has discovered a royal tomb hidden inside a Maya pyramid in Guatemala. After clearing debris left by looters, project co-director Hector Escobedo of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, uncovered the collapsed royal tomb last week at the Maya center of Waka, along with a student, Juan Carlos Melendez. full article at USA Today

A radical explanation for a conundrum about extra-terrestrial life, and what it means for the future of humanity! Around 1900, most inventions concerned physical reality: cars, airplanes, Zeppelins, electric lights, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, bras, zippers. In 2005, most inventions concern virtual entertainment the top 10 patent-recipients were IBM, Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Matsushita, Samsung, Micron Technology, Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and Fujitsu not Boeing, Toyota or Victoria's Secret. We have already shifted from a reality economy to a virtual economy, from physics to psychology as the value-driver and resource-allocator. We are already disappearing up our own brainstems. Our neurons over-stimulate each other, promiscuously, as our sperm and eggs decay, unused. Freud's pleasure principle triumphs over the reality principle. Today we narrow-cast human-interest stories to each other, rather than broadcasting messages of universal peace and progress to other star systems. Maybe the bright aliens did the same. I suspect that a certain period of fitness-faking narcissism is inevitable after any intelligent life evolves. This is the Great Temptation for any technological species to shape their subjective reality to provide the cues of survival and reproductive success without the substance. Most bright alien species probably go extinct gradually, allocating more time and resources to their pleasures, and less to their children. They eventually die out when the game behind all games the Game of Life says "Game Over; you are out of lives and you forgot to reproduce." fascinating read...

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