Klingan

Well there are roman cities preserved well enough to give us street names if they had them carved into the building. (Pompeii, Herculaneu, Ostia, timgad etc). Informal names then are a completely different story.

The size of roman towns is somewhat smaller than today, and since people generally had little else to do but gossip about other peoples business, anyone seeking an adress had only to ask around - someone would know where they lived, and a few directions from a landmark within the town would suffice. Rome was of course much larger but the same principle applies, and since that city contained 'ghettoes' of varying nationalities, its a fair bet there were sub-communities that keptt track of goings-on. Given the level of junk mail they received was nothing like today, I doubt the romans had much problem with street names, since major roads were sometimes named and used as landmarks in themselves. I would very much consider Pompeii a minor city in the empire and yet, no mater how much time they ever had for gossip, I would not recommend trying to ask your way to someones house in a city of between 6.000-20.000, unless the person was very prominent. If they had a problem with street names then? Probably not since we do not find very many names, but I think we should find other reasons then only gossip behind it.

You might want to take a look at The Archaeology of the Roman Economy by Kevin Greene, he use quite a lot of pages discussing roman ships (mostly merchant vessels).

Happy birthday!

The 2nd century AD gotta be a typo. I hope nobody's that lost in history. On the dating, it's very hard tell, as the statue is clearly damaged from being underwater for so long but I would say early Hellenistic considering the look on the face and the hairstyle. The Torso actually strike me as older, but that might very well be to the erosion.

I cannot come up with any other, but the quote certainly has a good point. It might be compared with the funerals parades where the ancestors were marching with the deceased, surly that must also have inspired people when seeing the family great achievements, to live up to their family name.

Very sad news indeed. I will most certainly miss him.

Or because they were a investment that was expected to last for a long time to pay off.

I would say no. In the end a roman slave was a slave and nothing else. They were property. All societies that allow slaves have different ways to handle them. Persian slaves were highly trusted, but we all know that many of them had to become eunuchs to earn that trust. In Athens they had a slave police force.

I see that you are now celebrating your second UNRV birthday. Congratulations Nephele! May you have a great day and an even better year ahead of you!

The term "slave society" have been very much debated lately. It is actually very unclear how much profit they gain in ancient roman times on having slaves instead of free labour. Remember that just as a free man a slave need roof over his head, food and medical care. As this they generate a very small surplus. Also a slave was an investment, very far from any use and throw away commodity. We actually know that it was recommended to use free labour for dangerous tasks from time to time to make sure that your own slaves wouldn't be hurt or immobilized.

Well I would be happy to help you if you would specify a little more. The three things you mentioned are very different from each other and if I would start naming such events, there would be no end.

It sounds interesting. I will take a look and see if I can find it in the university library and if so, I would more then gladly write a review, if you will accept that my English is far from perfect.

From what I've understood had most roman city streets no official names. As an example have we found no streets names in neither Pompeii nor Herculaneum. All the names tourists find there today are modern. I guess though that most major streets must have had names in the minds of the citizens back in the days. Maybe they stuck and in the end were as good as official ones that we put up on our streets today. I must admit thou that I find it very interesting that almost all of the streets named in your link Nephale comes from CIL hinting to us that the names were more then just temporary descriptions.

Awesome! this is great!

Ofcourse I will also add a new album

Yep I was I will be leaving in November, but I've not received all the details yet. I'm so looking forward to this

Well, I just received my final mails on what courses I was accepted into. Besides trying to kill myself taking 225%, being accepted to everything I wanted to, there is one more thing that I was very happy about and that I would like to share. I tried getting into a course called Vatten - resurshantering och probleml

Few planetary scientists or astronomers are concerned with the discovery of life on Mars, although it would be a high thrill and tell us much about the adaptability of life to harsh environments, but are more concerned with with the sustainability of life being transplanted there. It would actually be better for us if no life were discovered which we might have an effect on in our future activities on the surface of Mars. A very accurate but seldom noted point! Ps. I must admit that the point on Frontinus made me laugh a little Asc

Well I thought this was worth posting Water found at Mars, BBC.

Salve, A. I think you're talking about Klingan. Sorry that I have missed this for a period of time. I have been very busy, I will try to make a longer post tomorrow Klingan

Here's an example from Campania, probably Pompeii or Herculaneum. I found it in the Museo Natzionalle.

Very good news indeed

Congratulations!

The attached dolphin is an interesting feature. Compare it to the very famous Augusts statue where a cupid is riding a dolphin at his feet pointing to his godly ancestry to Venus through the Julian family.