Viggen

Lindsay Powell conducted for us the following interview with Mathew Dennison author of the recently reviewed book, Livia, Empress of Rome: A Biography

...I also wish you a happy birthday!

Would this perchance be an allusion to the execution of Sejanus' nine year old daughter? ...on a personal level thats the most revolting thing, if you dont know what we are talking about, Tacitus explains it... It was next decided to punish the remaining children of Sejanus, though the fury of the populace was subsiding, and people generally had been appeased by the previous executions. Accordingly they were carried off to prison, the boy, aware of his impending doom, and the little girl, who was so unconscious that she continually asked what was her offence, and whither she was being dragged, saying that she would do so no more, and a childish chastisement was enough for her correction. The archivists of the time record that because there was no legal precedent for the execution of a virgin, the hangman had intercourse with her beside the noose with the rope still on her neck. Then they were strangled and their bodies, mere children as they were, were flung down the Gemoniae. ...on a grand scale, the genocide of the Dacians by Trajan....

I just watched it now, and i must say i liked it allot, everyone should see it, raised some interesting questions...

...not often do you get so many replies at Facebook, 21 and counting so must be a touchy subject and thought i repost it here... ..."If there is anyone who qualifies as the founding father of western civilisation, it is Augustus," writes Anthony Everitt", do you agree? ..via Guardian

...i doubt he (the Romans) actually knew back than when someone was a Celt and when someone was a Germanic, or rather they didnt even care, I believe Caesar (Romans) simplified the division along the Rhine between both ethnic groups motivated by politics... but i go offtopic here...

Liechtenstein?

belated happy day!

A scientist will tell you that there is always change. A philosopher will say that nothing ever changes. North Africa feels as if it has both properties at the same time, a region apart from the continent it belongs to, almost like an island, a unique environment that persists in arid stasis and hosts mighty conflicts upon the sand. As I write the region is struggling with civil unrest that borders on open warfare. Two generations ago, the Rats and the Fox fought across the desert in the sweeping battles of World War Two. Before that, the colonial wars and the romance of the Foreign Legion. The domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Spanish revival. The Arab conquests. The barbarian migrations. And finally, at last, we come to the era of Roman domination... ...read the full review of Roman Conquest: North Africa

Thanks for the recomendations Corax, I'll definately look into those. The novels I've been reading are a series of books called the Forgotten Legion chronicles by Ben Kane. It's set in the late Republic around the time of Caesar, Pompey, Crassus etc. Mithras doesn't appear till the second book but then the religion plays quite prominent role in the storyline. http://www.amazon.co...gion+chronicles I did a review for UNRV on the first book in the series a while ago. ...we are going to do reviews of both follow up books (Silver Legion and Road to Rome) in the near future...

...@ Hus you are welcome @Bryaxis, well french doesnt sound very cool to german ears either, kinda way too feminine and soft, and dutch well that sounds like a german with throat problems, but i guess every language has its pro`s and cons hehe cheers viggen

...the german version you can watch for free on the ZDF site http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/#/beitrag/video/718370/Kampf-um-Germanien---Teil-1 Part 1 http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/#/beitrag/video/723802/Kampf-um-Germanien---Teil-2 Part 2 I might add the germans dont have as far as i know the stupid country restrictions that the british and americans have and should be viewable world wide.. cheers and enjoy viggen

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Happy birthday to another pisces!

...I thank all my subjects..... cheers viggen

Below are the newest releases for March.... Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death The Caesars[Paperback] The Cavalry of the Roman Republic [Paperback] A Companion to the Punic Wars (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) [Hardcover] The Colosseum (Wonders of the World) [Paperback] The Roads of Roman Italy [Paperback] Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric [Hardcover] The Romanization of Central Spain (Routledge Classical Monographs) [Paperback] Roman Edessa [Paperback] Pompeii - Art, Industry and Infrastructure [Paperback] The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC - AD 300 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation) [Paperback] Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperor's Horseguard [Paperback] Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic [Hardcover] Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome [Hardcover] Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation [Paperback] Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West (Blackwell Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition) [Hardcover] The Fall of the Roman Household [Paperback] Christianity: How a Despised Sect from a Minoritiy Religion Came to Dominate the Roman Empire [Hardcover] Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years [Paperback] State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm [Paperback] ...and here a non Roman book that caught my attention while looking for Roman books... The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution [Hardcover]

Who can forget Livia, the scheming villainess of BBC TV/PBS Masterpiece Theater

In the Ancient Warfare Magazine Vol.1 Edition 1, they have an article by Graham Sumner on "Pontius Pilate`s Bodyguard, The Roman Army in Judea AD 6 - 66 As Judaea was considered a minor Province it was ruled by Romans of equestrian, rather than senatorial, rank and garrisoned by auxiliary as opposed to legionary troops. The correct title of the new governors of Judaea was praefectus, as confimed by an inscription discovered in Caesarea. The prefects of Judaea inherited their troops from their Herodian predecessors. In all probability some of Herods sodiers were simply incorporated into the Roman army... It is beleved the garrison of Judaea was initially one cavalry unit, the Ala I Sebastenorum and at least five cohorts of infantry, one of them possibly Cohors I Sebastenorum. The evidence for units from other regions comes from a surprising source, the New Testament. In the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 10, St. Peter "about the year AD 40 converted Cornelius a centurion from the "Italian cohort". Some scholars have doubted whether a prefect could have under his command a unit of Roman citizens from Italy. However, it is knownw that Cohors ICivium Romanorum Ingenuorum, was amongst the troops commanded by a prefect in the province of Raetia, so it may be that the New Testament does infact record a citiizen unit in Judaea. also mentioned in the bible is Cohors Augusta the unit that took Paul to Rome for trial before the Emperor.... in any case a fascinating article, just like so many others in Ancient Warfare Magazine....

..if you make it to Trier then you should also go to Mainz, its really a good museum. There exhibitions cover starting from the stone age to medieval times, have an ancient seafaring museum and are also one of the most important research facilities for our topic http://web.rgzm.de/35.html?&L=1 It is about 2 hours by train from Trier,for more roman stuff in mainz here are two website (in german but just auto translate) http://www.roemisches-mainz.de/ and Theatrum Mogontiacensium http://www.theatrum-mainz.de/

...can anyone find on old thread where the characters are not shown correctly, i think we managed to fix it now... cheers viggen p.s. except this one

Typo or hate?

...the thing is, this is the most researched piece of textil in the history of mankind, and for every expert that says this you can draw another expert that says something else, its a fascinating item indeed, for example: Due to the heterogeneity of the data and the evidence of a strong linear trend the twelve measurements of the age of the TS cannot be considered as repeated measurements of a single unknown quantity. The statement of Damon, Donahue, Gore, and eighteen others (1989) that