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thanks Klingan, i merged them now...

These days one hears allot of posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in soldiers returning from war. Now i would imagine that 2000 years ago the traumatic experience of one on one battle must have been much greater then it is nowadays. Are there any works on stress and depressions in the ancient warfare world? Or are we now all just whimps and back then people could coupe just much better? Were long serving soldiers considered strange or crazy people with strange behaviour? cheers viggen

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LOL, so we shall now rename UNRV to UNBP (United Nations of Beautiful People)? ...thank goodness i didnt post my pic, or i had to re-rename it UNBPETOG (United Nations of Beautiful People Except That One Guy) ...btw. really cool hunks and goddesses hanging out there on Unrv.com...

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?...9413623#9413623 does that adress your issue, if not i think there you are in good hands... cheers viggen

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...great stuff would it be fair to also include the time period and location? Wouldnt it be for some a rather easy life for most of the time (in perstpective of course) , while other legions at the same time, were in deep trouble constantly engaged in serious battle?

well that isnt even a recent thing, as it happens there is an exhibition in Austria right now called The Legend of Rome. The ancient foundations of the Baroque state http://www.museum-joanneum.at/cms/beitrag/11108591/41658825 just thought i chip that in... cheers viggen

...sure no problemo, sooner or later it is going to happen,

thanks, i also found a coin, (not really pretty but one can see the IV http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/iiii_macedonica.html the intriguing part is they called themselves Legio IIII Macedonica but on the coin is IV so it seems it was both used at the same time? ...another example http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmfrugi.html (first coin on the left top shows XCIV)

thanks everyone, but what about Aurelias and Maladict`s argument? The notation of Roman numerals has varied through the centuries. Originally, it was common to use IIII to represent four, because IV represented the Roman god Jupiter, whose Latin name, IVPPITER, begins with IV. The subtractive notation (which uses IV instead of IIII) has become the standard notation only in modern times. ...did romans not use IV? and wouldnt with christianity becoming state religion, the Jupiter argument no longer be an issue? (@Maladict, yeah , the XXXII example is kinda cool) cheers viggen

When looking at the classic way how numbers are displayed, and comparing them with this piece i found in aguntum (abbreviation of the Roman number 32 (XXXII).), or the 34 here i have two questions, was that common? (anyone have some pics of other examples?) why did they do this? (was it maybe for asthetical reasons to fill the line (because the first example is saving space, the second example is making space) cheers viggen

thanks sylla for your detailed post, i have a question though you said, -Calidius first recruitment was relatively late (24 years old). that would mean he died while serving? if you say 25 years for the first term, how long would have been the second term, or would that be open ended? cheers viggen

nice, Master Aurelia ...i actually lived in Centurion (south of Pretoria) and worked at Linbro Business Park, when i looked out of the office window i could see Alexandria the poorestplace in Joburg, was very depressing, driving there every day by....

....ah didnt know you are brazilian, i noticed a fairly large portuguese community in Joburg (although not sure if those were portuguese or brazilians), (in which language are you studying in Belgium? French? Dutch?)

, apart from being one of the more interesting music videos around, i just happen to like Coldplay and especially this song

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...this article has now its own page Surnames of the Claudii thanks Nephele... cheers viggen

I lived for 6 years in South Africa 1995 to 2001, i must say i had very mixed feelings about the country. On the one hand, the country itself is really beautiful, and i am not only talking of the cape, but especially the KwaZulu Mountains, the Griqualand and my favourite place George and the Garden Route, on the other hand, i just dont see how this bubble is going to continue the way it is going, the middle class lives the live of very wealthy europeans, i mean in europe you need to be VERY RICH to have you own big house, swimming pool, maid, garden boy etc... The two most things that irritated me is first south africans can`t build houses, thats why i never been so cold in my live then in a Gauteng winter, (i can assure you, in austria when minus 20 degrees outside, i can walk inside with my underpants) and second the constant fear of something terrible is going to happen, crime rate was back then at least so high, it was absurd, within two years, i had three times my car stolen, two break in, and my wife was held hostage in a bank robbery, (which was also the point were i called it a day and left)... ...but i still dream of Biltong, the Braiis and the Blue Bulls clapping the Sharks

...last night i had a really strange dream,we were hosting a conference for publisher and authors, but who knows maybe i just glimpsed into the future... UNRV Anual Digital Classics Conference London UNRV ADCC Agenda Overview 09:00am-9:15am Conference Welcome by Chris Heaton 09:15am-10:00am Opening Keynote by Elinor Hirschhorn (Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer Simon & Schuster) Classics in the Digital Age - Challenge and Opportunity 10:00am-11:15am Adrian Goldsworthy - How to write for the mainstream without compromising quality 11:15am-11:45am Coffee and Tea 11:45am-12:30pm Caroline Lawrence - Children and the Classics - Why you shouldnt write for little adults but for Kids 12:30pm-13:15pm Andrew Brown, (Managing Director, Cambridge University Press) - Meeting the needs of authors, readers and publishers 13:15pm-14:45pm Lunch 14:45pm-15:30pm Professor Mary Beard, (Classics editor of the TLS) - Engaging the Reader/How to make your writing come alive 15:30pm-16:15pm Olivia Hetreed, (screenwriter) - From the Book to the Screen - Insights from a screenwriter 16:15am-16:45am Coffee and Tea 16:45pm-17:30pm Steven Kessel, (Senior Vice President Amazon) - Kindle/How to profit from electronic books 17:30pm-18:30pm Live Panel - Discussion with all participating speakers who will answer questions from the audience ...i dream of weird things, right?

no reason to apologise, and also thanks on both; now feel free to discuss the philosophical aproach on methodology and evidence in the Arena, and continue about Valerianus right here cheers viggen

...is this thread still about Valerianus, or about something else, i mean no one will join the discussion if this is going to continue in this way, and thats what we want, a lively discussion from as many bright heads as possible on a given topic, right? cheers viggen

Very famous austrian documentary about Carnuntum, thousands of reenactors from around europe participated, unfortunately only first 10 minutes are free on youtube (its in english) real labour of love

...at least you guys didnt had to listen while watching TV (although to mix german schlager with him is kinda freaky brilliant diabolic in its own special way..) ...and this must be by far the worst with the most views (was a running gag on german websites), turkish germans, trying hard to be cool, (if you could understand it is even more hillarious, how hard they try und how much they suck... (if you make it till the end of the clip, even Freud would say "you have issues")

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...s_Carnuntum.jpg the inscription basically says (if i am not mistaken) he died with 58 after serving 34 years in the Legion (from simple horseman to Optio eventually becoming Centurio) 34 years are a pretty long time, right? anyone knows of archaelogical evidence of longer serving soldiers? So Pannonia is leading with 34 years....