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  1. Ursus
    Most likely Nero played the lyre, if he did anything.
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    Please ask him what his status is. We haven't seen him since before Christmas.
  4. Ursus
    Kudos to the Pope. Some traditions should be preserved.
  5. Ursus
    Happy birthday to Faustus (and to Tobias, if he is still around).
  6. Ursus
    Volcanic ash is ejected into the path of an oncoming electrical storm: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/envi...icle3883087.ece Beautiful...
  7. Ursus
    *bows head in shame* Look .. I tried telling her to keep it down when we heard Horton skulking about outside, but she was just so into her work...
  8. Ursus
    It's either going to be really good, or else really suck. I don't see much of a middle ground here.
  9. Ursus
    Let's not use all caps in the title, Faustus. I edited the title. Otherwise, please continue the thread.
  10. Ursus
    http://www.unrv.com/book-review/attila-the-hun.php
  11. Ursus
    That she was...
  12. Ursus
    Same here. In a few months there should be some cheap used copies on Amazon.com.
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    Wow

    Ursus commented on Lost_Warrior's blog entry in Lost_Warrior's Blog

    Ok, so what is with you and dancing banana??
  14. Ursus
    Not a hardcore sci-fi fan, but Friday night's "Dr. Who" was set during the eruption of Vesuvius. It was entertaining. [edit: merged two different threads]
  15. Ursus
    Thanks. I had beers and a steak dinner. And the waitress was cute.
  16. Ursus
    Most of these were the same books at last month ...? I still want the Antony and Cleopatra book.
  17. Ursus
    Yeah, between the Dionysian and Pythagorean allegories I thought it was relevant enough to post here. :-)
  18. Ursus
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...notes042308.DTL
  19. Ursus
    Well, this is indeed interesting. As for me, I always thought it was the Byzantines who preserved the classical heritage. The Islamic destruction of Byzantium sent not a few Byzantine scholars to Italy, thus facilitating the Rennaisance.
  20. Ursus
    Over the weekend I reread Luttwak's Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire. That's a little too involved for me to do a review, but the political scientist in me enjoyed it.
  21. Ursus
    The invention of beer.
  22. Ursus
    I rather liked the 10 minute gladiator scene in the penultimate episode of Rome's first season. I thought it was more exciting and better acted than two hours of "Gladiator."
  23. Ursus
    I found one mention of a Julius Ursus, an eldery Senator considered briefly to follow Hadrian, but was later executed for unspecified reasons.
  24. Ursus
    Maty has a good section on the Julians in his book Sons of Caesar. 1) Julius Proculus, mentiond by Nephele, who claimed to have spoken with the spirit of Romulus 2) The family was among the leading clans that emigrated from Alba Longa to Rome 3) Appear as Consuls in the fifth century, one of whom dedicated a temple to Apollo 4) one mentioned as a decemvir 5) A Julius Caesar mentioned as a praetorian Governor of Sicily during the Second Punic War 6) during second century BCE, a number found as praetors 7) His uncle became a Consul and later Censor in the Social War, and his own father was a praetor
  25. Ursus
    I reviewed one his books on the Hellenistic era. I thought it was quite excellent. It discussed the limits of Hellenization, something many historians overlooked.
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