Viggen

...we are in the province of Noricum!

@GhostofClayton ...you are correct it is also not Virunum, and certainly not Vindobona, and no its also not in or near the Wienerwald (vienna woods) @Melvadius you are correct that this is a reconstructed gallo roman temple i added another photo, and no its not Martberg ...as this was celtic land can be seen on the many celtic coins that have been found in that area...

...no it is not in Teurnia... History; the foundation date of the roman settlement can be dated to around 15BC the best time it enjoyed around Tiberius reign and at the end of the first century AD it was already declining rapidly, interesting tidbit; in the 8th century the area was under langobards influence...

...not in the lower Inn Valley and not in switzerland, to the history, at this place was long before the romans a Hallstatt culture settlement and later on La Tene, the people most likely spoke at celtic times the venetic language, as some venetic alphabet inscriptions are still visible, ...

...hey cool, i won for a change here one to chew on for our experts...

here an interview between a flemish (belgian dutch) reporter and an afrikaaner (Charlize Theron from South Afirca), you can really hear good the strong difference between those two and the netherlands dutch, (i think flemish and afrikaans are closer than dutch) Theron starts to reply in afrikaans after 50 seconds or so... I understand afrikaans quite well as i lived several years in SA, and for me flemish is much easier to understand than the dutch from the Netherlands... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYB9s0Nyzk

...hehe, that was the point, wasn`t it

...looks like Nesactium, have you been in Istria? cheers viggen

ever wondered what english sounds like if you dont speak it...? ...a gem from Adriano Celentano, The American-English sounding lyrics are actually pure gibberish and asked why he wrote that song, "having just recorded an album of songs that meant something, I wanted to do something that meant nothing". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00

Am I justified in feeling that everyone connected with the making of this film should be summarily executed for crimes against humanity? The "Clash of the Titans" remake is Hollywood at its worst. It derives from a cinematic dark age where producers and writers are simply bereft of an original thought and must cannibalize their own work through remakes and reboots. If this weren't enough, the spirit of Greek mythology so essential to the charm of the original is here subverted to unholy ends, and what is left is an empty shell of a movie existing for the sake of special effects.... ...read the full review of Clash of the Titans

...if you know spanish, here the article from El Mundo with much more information http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/04/27/andalucia/1303920961.html

...too good to be true? EXPERTS from Huelva University have discovered 71 unknown manuscripts of Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD). The manuscripts, most of them codices and fragments which were not known to even exist, have been found in different libraries around the world and most of them belong to Ovid

...i cant deny my austro-bavarian roots love that drummer at 1.25 all hell breaks loose...

Happy Birthday, oh prolific Ursus!

Sybaris, Calabria?

...happy birthday!

...i am a huge fan of Marcus Aurelius, here some of my favourites... Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight." "The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it." cheers viggen

Virginians

...interesting article by author Robert Harris.... (from 2006 but i believe still relevant) IN the autumn of 68 B.C. the world

Below are the newest releases for May (and April).... Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 - 1070 Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire Herculaneum: Past and Future The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern The Soul of the Greeks: An Inquiry Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus Eager for Glory: The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania IF ROME HADN'T FALLEN: How the Survival of Rome Might Have Changed World History The Colosseum (Wonders of the World) The Ancient Guide to Modern Life Classical Mythology: Images and Insights SPARTA AT WAR: Strategy, Tactics and Campaigns, 950-362 BC Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome A New History of Early Christianity Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris The Frontiers of the Roman Empire On Greek Religion (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire Hadrian (British Museum Research Publication) Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome Cosmopolis: Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire Hostages and Hostage-Taking in the Roman Empire Morocco Under the Roman Empire The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855 The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition A Companion to Roman Religion Boudicca's Rebellion AD 60-61: The Britons rise up against Rome

The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers has been discovered in north Kent. Archaeologists working on the site of a Roman settlement near the A2 uncovered the girl who died almost 2,000 years ago. "She was killed by a Roman sword stabbing her in the back of the head," said Dr Paul Wilkinson, director of the excavation. "By the position of the entry wound she would have been kneeling at the time..." ...read the full article at the BBC

I made a little tutorial how you can set up so everyones comment needs to be approved by the blog owner, (thanks to new blog spammers) enjoy and defend your blog

Paganism came to an end in Rome during the early fifth century AD. The question is whether Rome's last pagans went out with a bang or a whimper. This book, by one of the foremost scholars of late antiquity, is a closely argued thesis in favour of the 'out with a whimper' school of thought. As a thesis, this book takes little time to accommodate the newcomer to late antiquity. It is assumed that, even if not fully up to speed with the latest research on the late fourth and early fifth century, the reader is reasonably clear about the major events and personalities of the period. Those who are uncertain about the participants or chronology of battles such as Adrianople or the Frigidus are advised to revise this and much else before approaching this book... ...read the full review of The last Pagans of Rome by Alan Cameron