Ursus

My mother and her side of the family suffer from depression and anxiety. I know something of what you're going through. Mom said going through therapy was the best thing that happened to her, so hang in there.

Happy 20th Birthday to Lost Warrior! Next year she can drink legally!

... to two of our regular members, Honorius and Klingan!

All that I could find: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel Since wikipedia is not always correct, you may wish to search for sources on Roman era Judaism.

Glad you liked it. You know, when I first read it, I had had a bad week at work, couldn't get into the book, and placed it on my shelf where it lay for months. Then I picked it up again in a better mood and devoured it. Just goes to show what one's mood does for enjoying a book.

A lot of educated religious people can and do believe in evolution. Only those beholden to a literal intepretation of a creation myth object.

http://www.unrv.com/book-review/the-roman-empire.php

Can't see a damn thing - snow clouds.

Update: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe...,536402,00.html

A true Julian would have overthrown the emperor and seduced his wife. The blood apparently had run a little thin.

Very interesting. Colin Wells relates an interesting story about this. According to a story told by Dio (whose veracity can be questioned) there was a Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus. This Ursus was considered by the emperor Hadrian to be a successor. While 90 years old, he had the benefit of being married to Hadrian's sister, and his grandson was Hadrian's only living male blood relation. Unfortunately Ursus Servianus ran afoul of Hadrian for some unspecified reason and was put to death. Even had he been chosen he certainly could not have lived long in the office, which lends doubts that Dio's story is even true in the first place! But it's the one mention of an Ursus I have in my collected Romanophilia books.

I'd love to have a theatre all to myself. No screaming kids. No cell phones. No fat asses munching loudly on junk food. Just me and the flick.

Maybe I am being naive, but does one need a detailed primer from an established economic orthodoxy to explain this all? I always took it as a given that the chaos resulting from the collapse of a unified imperial society was sufficient on its own merits to create localized, agrarian society. A localized agrarian society is what most of western Europe had experienced before the Pax Romana - Iron Age peasants living in mud huts and hill forts under the service of some petty chief, whose main occupation was raiding the wealth of the neighboring petty chief. From that perspective, the biggest difference between pre-imperial Europe and post-imperial Europe was simply one of local religion and language being replaced by Catholicism and corrupted Latin.

Trying to seduce gladiators.

I think the thing to do then would be to just make a Roman drinking game. Watch an old Roman movie. Everytime someone says: "Hail Caesar!" take a drink. Everytime a Christian is martyred, take two drinks. Yeah, could be fun.

The dark skinned Nubians to Egypt's south absorbed Egyptian culture. During a period of Egypt's political decline they came to rule Egypt for 75 years. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/...ert-draper-text

I'd like to see a film version of Apuleius' "Golden Ass" - as long as they don't get Eddy Murphy to provide the voice of Lucius the Ass.

Forum Patrician "Caldrail" offers the following review: http://www.unrv.com/book-review/scourge-of-god.php

I'm going out on a limb here and guessing this post was sarcasm. Please! Say its sarcasm. I may have been salivating at Ms. Simpson, but not at her acting.

Yes. Oxen, rams, chicken, pigs. Even occasionally dogs.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/11/druid-grave.html

They're all religions of peace - until you disagree with them. I don't think One True Faiths have to be taught intolerance from an external source, they seem rather inbred with it. And when you have two different One True Faiths rub up against each other, it gets really interesting. (sending to Arena. I don't mean to stifle free discussion, but lately there has been a lot of poltiical and religious threads. Perhaps this stuff is best left off a site dedicated to Roman history, unless it specifically deals with Roman history? Just my humble opinion).

Saw "Dukes of Hazard" last night on cable TV. Jessica Simpson - what a talented actress. Her performance left me salivating for more.