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For Carthage: http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6422 For Rome, lots of stuff. "The War with Hannibal" by Livy and "Rise of the Roman Empire" by Polybius, both published by Penguin, give you the ancient world's two great historians on the era.
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Life and Times in the The Roman-British Villa
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Life and Times in the The Roman-British Villa
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The History Channel produces DVDs of various quality. They are having a New Years sale on select items. Their ancient history productions usually aren't too bad. Check out the "shop" section at http://www.history.com/
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071228/wl_nm/...kPLwVq6GCpFeQoB Will the Mexican government try to copyright Pyramids like the Egyptians?
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If Romen women undergoing menses were monsters, I wonder what Spartan women on menses were like ....
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The Vestals were an honored part of State religion, not a Mystery cult. There was little secret about what they did. Unfortunately, the rites of Bona Dea were secretive, so I am afraid I can't find much more info. What we do know is an interesting bit in the history of the late Republic that GO alluded to: http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/mores/religion/bonadea.htm
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I'm not quite the expert on early Christianity, but my understanding is that Christianity was an essentially Jewish phenomenon until the Flavian destruction of the Temple; with the destruction of the temple the earliest sect of Christianity largely died out, and therefore Hellenized Jews were forced to look to Gentiles for coverts, making it a new religion in the process. It was therefore very unlikely that Pilate would have been a Christian, as Christianity in his time was nothing more than a heretical sect of Judaism rather than a new religion in its own right to which Gentiles would have converted.
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Yeah, Bona Dea: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/b/bona_dea.html
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Athens inherited a rich empire after a great war, and yet still remained a radical democracy until the impostion of tyranny by a foreign power. I can't buy the idea that imperial wealth alone leads to so-called tyranny from within. There was something in the particular political and social mechanisms of the late Republic that made normal give-and-take of politics impossible, leading to the crisis that could only result in civil war. That "something" has been hashed out repeatedly on these forums...
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7160057.stm
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Is your interest academic or personal ...? I don't usually demand sources from people, but I agree with Nephele: where did the person on the other forum get their info? If it is a primary source I want to read it. If it is HBO: Rome with Attia's well-hung slave from the first season, then we can dismiss it
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Everything in the list above I would consider either harmless (what people ate or how they had sex) or else beneficient (more consumer goods, increased social freedom for women, more religious options). As far as idleness .... the other side of the coin is that after the civil wars, Italy experienced an economic boom. Surely someone had to be working ...? What is austere morality to one is boorish provincialism to another. One could say Rome finally grew up from its rustic Latin roots to become a cosmopolitan empire.
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During Saturnalia, Amazon was offering nearly 50% off, so I caved in and bought it. I had to see how the series ended. I generally agree with the negative reviews expressed throughout the "Rome" sub-folder.
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They are still debating what Mithraism meant and who Mithras was in cultic terms.
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Here is the article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1411715,00.html They were Danubian not Sarmatian, sorry.
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The Iron Age tribes surrounding Rome sometimes employed women as warriors (on a limited basis). I think last year there was an archaeology article stating they found evidence that a few women were serving as Sarmatian auxilliaries (or some other allied people).
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http://romanhistorybooksandmore.freeservers.com/
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I know that young Celtic nobles did hire themselves out as mercenaries to Alexander's Hellenistic successors.
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Next time I'm at the bookstore I actually will look out for this. I'm not such a snob I would turn down a decent comic adaptation of mythology.
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I believe I saw "Barabbas" a long time ago. Was just another bad 60's movie, but it wasn't horribly soulless like the productions discussed above.
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http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=7767 Is this a good thing? The classics going mainstream once again? Or should we be scared at what a comic book might do to our hallowed myths? All I can say for now is that the cover art looks pretty spiffy.