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The picture if beautiful, I really hope someone have it in high resolution.

This seems very optimistic. As always when chasing the bible. (Anyone remembering the Jesus grave found thread we had somewhere here?

I just thought that I would post a link to an album I put up here lately from Lunds museum of ancient art. As the collection was moved and split a few months back, I went there the day before and took a lot of photos as a reference material. If you are interested in sculptures you'll find the album here. Notice that most of the material are copies. They are of very high quality however and full size, all very impressing.

I rarely dislike documentary's and I liked this one to a certain grade, but they did pull off some lines that are of importance. First of all, their logic is faulty, or at least seems faulty to me. They put it up as if a gladiator normally trained for one year. Sure that sounds fair enough. Then they told us that normally they didn't fight more then three fights per year. This seems quite odd to me, that is really a great deal of expense for little show. And then in the end they told us that after 3 years a gladiator could win his freedom. Now this is where it's all getting very strange. That would make the normal career for a gladiator 9 fights. That's very very little for the expense. Besides that, gladiators weren't free men. It seems very improbable to be that there ever would be anything like a rule (norm) saying that any gladiator would be (forced) freed by their owner. They could also have pushed on the economical aspect of killing a gladiator. Beside that, if you noticed some scenes seems to fit in oddly that's because they come from another documentary, BBC's Colosseum, Romes Arena of Death. On my opinion that is one of the best documentary's ever made. Very much recommended!

Thanks for posting this video MPC. The only thing I found disappointing (and I realize that it would impossible to have in this kind of reenactment) was the very short speeches. They should at least have included that they could talk for hours and hours. On the point of proscription, my professor frequently on the subject tells us that one son told Sulla of his fathers whereabouts and received money for this as any one else would. I cannot reckon where the fact come from however. Edit: By the way, that sword the messenger carried, wasn't that a little odd?

By some reason the first quote that comes to me is "Ide et amor." I cannot really explain why, but it has somehow been stuck on my mind lately. On the funny side we have a few lines from Suetonius concerning Caesar: "...he had a dream of raping his own mother, the soothsayers greatly encouraged him by their interpretation of it: namely that, he was destined to conquer the earth, out Universal Mother." THATS what I call the bright side of things, I would be really scared by such a dream.

Happy birthday! I hope you that had a really good day! (My apologies for being kinda lateish, I really wish I could spend more time on those boards )

Firefox is a great browser in my opinion, I have been using it for a long time now. I can't even imagine going back to IE at the moment. Hopefully 3.0 won't be a disappointment.

The use of Latin probably doesn't help any.. but I do prefer the atmosphere. The use of Latin was indeed troublesome to be when I came here first. Maybe a sticky concerning where to find what would help?

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"In sentencing Cradock, he warned him not to do it again." Yes but of course, Mr Judge, I will try to stay away from getting raped by a wombat again, I promise!

I take it that we are discussing the public giving away of a horse to an equite? I have always been under the impression that the giving away was more of a symbolic possibility then it was really used. People who were equites had no problems affording a horse.

This seems really good (Even as I wonder how the "Gay Bar" fit in). It could probably be very useful for people unfamiliar with Rome

Thanks you Faustus. Those should be typos, but it was great that you noticed them; I have now changed them in my .doc document that I use for my grammar studies. As for the imperative they seem to follow the normal pattern, and that would also explain why I do not have any notes on those. Thanks a lot!

Happy birthday GPM! However I do not have any dancing girls for you an exotic monster from the lands of ice and snow! Have a good time slaying it! (Or feeding the Geminae to it!)

We do not have too much discussions, but we tend to start them by our self after the first year.

Roman urban water technology. I have a vague idea on how to implement it today. We'll know if it'll work in ten years

This is a story about the Bible and truth. More precisely, it's about biblical antiquities and how they can be seen to prove that the stories told in the Bible really happened. Five-and-a-half years ago the world of biblical archaeology was rocked to its foundations, and all because of a box. It was a stone box - called an "ossuary" - that had been discovered in Israel. Ossuaries were used to hold the bones of the dead some 2,000 years ago, in the time of Jesus. And this ossuary was said hold the bones of Jesus' brother, James. As correspondent Bob Simon reports, the discovery created more excitement among Christian scholars than anything since the Shroud of Turin. And like the shroud, no sooner was it unveiled that charges of forgery surfaced. In fact, a trial has been underway in Jerusalem for almost three years. Read more here.

Well this is somewhat embarrassing, but I lost my paper on Futurum simplex after the last lecture while running to the bus. I've made out what I could from my notes, but I can't find out if it's correct, so I thought I'd post it here if anyone have a moment over to help me. I couldn't find anything on how infinitive and imperatives are made unfortunately. It's the 1st through 4th conjugation and I have used vocare, videre, regere, capite & audire: Voca-b-o Voca-bi-s Voca-bi-t Voca-bi-mus Voca-bi-tis Voca-bu-nt Vide-b-o Vide-bi-s Vide-bi-t Vide-bi-mus Vidi-bi-tis Vide-bu-nt Reg-a-m Reg-e-s Reg-e-t Reg-e-mus Reg-e-tis Reg-e-nt Capi-a-m Capi-e-s Capi-e-t Capi-e-mus Capi-e-tis Capo-e-nt Audi-a-m Audi-e-s Audi-e-t Audi-e-mus Audi-e-tis Audi-e-nt

household objects were used by our distant ancestors to honour their dead according to an expert from Chester University. Combs, tweezers and razors were among the distinctive artefacts used by the Anglo-Saxons. According to new research conducted by an international expert at the University of Chester, the popular perception that the early Anglo-Saxons would mark death with grandiose gestures is untrue. Senior Lecturer in Archaeology Dr Howard Williams has conducted research suggesting that it was more modest items which were particularly important to those in the fifth and sixth centuries. Dr Williams, who has an international reputation as an expert in mortuary archaeology, presented his findings at the British Museum to representatives of the museum, University College London, and other professional archaeologists. Read more here.

I'm working myself up the road with classical studies. Know that it is not easy to succeed. I'm at my 4th semester at Uni and I'm finishing my candidate exam (3 years normal time) as soon as all courses are finished that I'm on right now. I've also written my magistrate essay (One more year for the exam) Here's what I've taken so far: Culture and society of antiquity: A (One semester) Culture and society of antiquity: B (One semester) Culture and society of antiquity: Candidates essay (One semester, urban water systems. Published as Xerxes. Unfortunately it's in Swedish.) Culture and society of antiquity: Magistrate essay (Half a semester, the technology behind a roman bath. Published as Xerxes (Swedish)) Archeology, introduction (One semester) Experimental archeology (One semester, ongoing, working with a comparison of Vitruvius castellum and the one from Pompeii concerning how the water flows) The Etruscans (ongoing) I plan on taking a course partly in Athens next semester on ancient Greek water supplies. I will also study Latin B and possibly a short course about ancient Egypt. Later I plan on continuing by taking one or two courses in Greek and possibly in German even as I must say I really don't want too.

She was of a, in origin, Macedonian family, the Ptolemaic's. They arrived as rulers of Egypt after Alexander the greats death 323 BC. He had no heir and his generals basically had a free for all, therefor the empire was split into a number of succession kingdoms. Ptolemaeus Egyptian one was one of the success full ones.

Grinders of bone? I would really like to see one of those. I would imagine them to wear off very quickly. On the topic of grinding in general, I have seen calculations that in a society based on a bread diet about every 10th person need to work in full time with grinding.

Haha good choice of day;) Happy birthday!

A friend of mine had found another article on this and claimed that they calculated that around 47,5 million people could be buried in the structure. I really do hope that the bottom coffins can handle the stress or someone will have to clean up 47.500.000 dead people and A LOT of mortar.