Viggen

Amazon big enough? Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 ...about Vegetius, we actually have a page about him http://www.unrv.com/culture/vegetius.php there is the link to amazon for the book cheers viggen

well i havent read it, but here is the link to amazon for some info about the book Weapons of the Romans by Michel Feugere, David G. Smith (Translator) cheers viggen

dont get me started about our host, just that much it was much more serious then just being down... in any case no use fuming about this, we are in the process of moving however we are bound by US law to wait 60 days after renewal so we just have to hang in there for a few more months... cheers viggen

thanks Ursus for another fantastic contribution, now published as an article on the main site... cheers viggen

as well as find a picture of the girl and get it on the comp, ...just keep privacy in mind... cheers viggen

Otherwise though, I'm relatively alone. I have no one in the world that I can share my thoughts with, some one that will listen without rebuttal, but some one I can also have a debate with. Hey, we are listening cheers viggen

I am roman catholic and pretty comfortable with it, I am happy to believe in what i believe but on the other hand leave those that believe in other things alone, because I am not a missionary, well ok i am on a mission, but to get me to elysium in the end cheers viggen

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art today offered to return 20 artifacts in its collection to Italy, which says the ancient art was looted. The disputed items include a 2,500-year-old vase painted by the Greek artist Euphronios, a 15-piece set of Hellenistic silver and four ancient pots. full article at Bloomberg

February has not all that many new books on offer, but nevertheless some interesting stuff... Roman Historiography by Andreas Mehl Augustus: Caesar's Web - Power And Propaganda In Augustan Rome by Matthew D. H. Clark History of the Later Roman Empire, Ad 284-622 by Stephen Mitchell Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity by Jas' Elsner, Ian Rutherford Women in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones Roman Provincial Coinage VII: Gordian I to Gordian Iii. 1.province of Asia by Ivana Markov

thanks to FLavius Valerius Constantinus the Glossary pages A, B and C have now much improved cheers viggen

Me?, you mean Judith Herrin who is professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London who wrote this for the Athen News... cheers viggen

The archaeological site at the Megiddo Police hill is identified as the Jewish village Kfar Othnai, mentioned in written sources. The camp of the Roman Legion VI Ferrata and a city named Maximianopolis, mentioned in historical sources, were erected next to it. The Roman Period site represents a rare cultural grouping of Village-Camp-City in a limited geographical space, which is located near the biblical Tel Megiddo that is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. full press release at Atiquities.org

thanks Ursus for this excellent review! It is now published and online... cheers viggen

free press is a good thing indeed ! cheers viggen

on top is a link called featured reviews http://www.unrv.com/book-review/review.php cheers viggen

did you check ursus review on this book? http://www.unrv.com/book-review/gods-of-ancient-rome.php maybe this helps... cheers viggen

I found some german sites dealing with the history of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), apparently near todays Dubrovnik there was a roman colony called Epidaurum and on todays (peninsula) Dubrovnik (Ragusa) there was a settlement called Rausium. In the 7th century AD slawic and awars destroyed Epidaurum and the remaining inhabitants fled to Rausium. They called it then Epidaurum, id est Ragusium (first mentioned in 614 AD by an unknown geographer in Ravenna. This settlement was surrounded by many oaktrees hence the slavic origin of Dubrovnik as in slawic Dub stands for Oak. (another source claims that the towns name comes from the slawic dubrava which means grove. From 614 to 1205 Epidaurum, id est Ragusium was under the authority of Byzanz. More and more slawic influence chaged the name of the town from Epidaurum id est Ragusium to Dubrovnik (first mention in 1189) cheers viggen p.s. here is a site about dubrovniks history (although nothing on very early history) http://www.hr/darko/etf/et111.html

why does everyone call me viggin hmmm, the religion argument did not apply to england..., and would you say that the roman bureaucrats dissapeared quicker and more complete then in gaul? The british isles had an influx of germanics and well they switched, gaul had that too, but didnt... regards viggen

I was so free to split and rename this thread... cheers viggen

After the collapse of the West (and even before) Gaul was invaded/conquered by Germanic tribes over and over again, eventually all settled more or less down with the Franks, (which were germanic), now my question is, why do the french speak the french of today (romance) and not a germanic language? cheers viggen

please dont post the whole article, because this has serious copyright implications... also, please do not post yahoo news links, they become obsolete after a couple of weeks and i can keep on cleaning the site from the dead links here is a (non yahoo) link to the story... CBS.com thanks and cheers viggen

It served first as a notebook for ancient painters and then as part of a mummy's wrapping. Now, a first century B.C. parchment believed to contain the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era will be on display next month in the northern city of Turin. The parchment's story begins around the mid-first century B.C., when a copyist in Alexandria, Egypt, began working on a blank parchment to copy the second of 11 books by Greek geographer Artemidorus of Ephesus. full article at WtopNews

nope i will put them online very quickly so others can see what has been added already (avoiding duplicate submissions) the first patch (thanks FLavius Valerius Constantinus) has been submitted and is now online already! http://www.unrv.com/glossary/glossary-A.php cheers viggen

well it would speed up things considerably cheers viggen

yup, oh and i think any letter will do, i do see it might be too time consuming otherwise.. cheers viggen