Klingan

That almost sounds like you have: Evolution: Some evidence, not bullet proof. Good argument from a logical point of view. Requires a small amount of faith. Creation: No evidence at all. Leaking like a sieve. Two different creations in the same holy book, terrible much not logical. Requires faith faith and more faith.

Well this is it I guess. I've been in line for a room at Lund (the town where I study) for some time now and finally I'm first in line. I can now get to live at the place I want to. So far so good. Now it's the time for anxiety and doubt. Should I move? Should I stay at home where I live for free but have to take the buss for almost 2 hours to get to Uni? How will I keep in touch with my friends since over 10 years? Will i be able to meet my girlfriend as much as I would like too? Will I be able to afford the room or will I end up with lots of loans with an unusable education? Will I fit in? I've always had a hard time getting to know people, I can't imagine anythign more difficult then learning the names and getting to know 20 new guys and girls in a dorm. Will I be able to focus on my studies? Will i even survive in 18 square meters? I'm used to living on the countryside with no one around as far as the eye can see. Will my act survive without me, he can hardly stand when I'm gone for two days. I really really hate this kind of decisions. Really really really....

P. Clodius Pulcher, tribunus plebis 58 BC. While patricians were likely adopted by plebs on occasion throughout Roman history, this is the only time it actually led to a patrician serving as tribune (and was actually done for that purpose). Ah yes, Pulcher how could I forget. Thanks for filling me in

Some Patricians choose do be adopted by a Plebeians and by this become plebs them selfs, allowing them to become tribunes. I have an example of this somewhere I just cannot reckon where.

If Greek is acceptable, there's always Titans quest, a Diablo style hack 'n slash game. You could also try God of war at the xbox I believe. Those do not however live up to what you want, but then again I'm sad to say so, I don't beleive we'll hardly ever see a game like what you describe.

The clear (even if most were traditions not laws) rules of the republic didn't save it, why would a law of succession order save the empire?

Grats LW! May i mention that I am allowed to by liquid at the store since yesterday here in Sweden? (I have been allowed to buy any drinks at bars since I was 18 thou)

I don't mean to knock people who are going to uni to do their thing, mate. It's just not for me. Big ups to you for getting in there and doing it; I wish you well in your studies. I'm sorry it was very much not meant to point at you I just wanted to update my former "will study Latin" status into "studying Latin" My apologies.

Thanks you lady and gentleman I will now proceed by drinking dangerous amounts of a liquid called Fiske Fj

Depends on what you are working with. I've been doing all kinds of work out of my home from time to time since I was 13 or something. I mean get a tax-paying job with an employer No mater where we work or how young we are, we are expected to have a contract from an employer and pay tax when we make over 15.000 kr per year or something (2000$ ish)

Thanks I will take a very close look at this!

Was at 4 am here. Grrr

Water section Wow, where can I find details on this? Depends on what you are working with. I've been doing all kinds of work out of my home from time to time since I was 13 or something.

My Latin is currently rapidly improving as I'm taking a course at uni!

Well to make a long story short - As many of you may know I study at the classical history university of Lund to one day become a scholar myself. Lately I have increased my amount of courses taken well beyond the safety point, trying to learn Latin, experimental archeology and write my Magister's essay (equals one year before a Masters making a Magister 4 year I believe) at the same time. To be honest, it has been very hard to motivate myself recently to work this hard, but I have no found the perfect cure! I've decided to make a study of Pompeii's water system this summer and I need money to get there. So how to get money as a student? - I found a job at a storage facility for spare agriculture equipment parts. The job lasts for 5 days, 10 teams of two, 10 hours per day average, going through it all bolt by bolt. Needless to say I'm having nightmares about bolts by now (day 3). However except for the money there is one very good reason why every kid would be forced to do this for one week each semester. They would work a lot harder during the other weeks in school. Trust me, the Swedish government have tried to raise the level of education for decades, resulting in lower and lower standards and more and more students quitting Uni. It just won't work. This however, is truly an efficient way, to help the people of a country become better educated! Next week I'm back to Uni and I tell ya, I will not rest until I am done...

You should have brought your cat to the theater

I always find myself surprised by this sort of errors. Sure, lots of slaves, the slave economy theory has been a thought to kill even within scholars, but Cicero Julius? They could at least use Wikipedia.... What part of historical correctness makes games bad?

Yes, I watched Cloverfield on the big screen with a couple of mates. It's a lot better than Godzilla (the lead actor looks like he actually wants the role, the monster is convincing) but that's not saying much. The mysterious marketing campaign was the best thing about the movie. OK if you like monster films, I guess. Well watching a dozen of the old Japanese Godzilla movies would probably make up for me enjoying monster films I will give it a chance when it comes by.

The creation was formed to make us believe that we were evolved to test our faith. Only those faithful enough to receive Gods grace. No I'm not a Creationist, but I've been faced with this argument. As I don't believe it has s*** all to do with the truth it does point out one important thing: We do not know. I normally place myself among the evolutionists, but I consider that there might be something starting the whole chain of reactions. Therefor I guess I tend to draw against Intelligent design. I have also seen a calculation on how large the statistical chance that life could exist without God is. It's unbelievably low. However it's a worthless argument since the universe is infinite and those places without life would obviously not complain on their own no-existence.

I've been looking for it over the net too Sullafelix, I'm going to the library as soon as possible to get it! Imagine that! Looking at most baths, for instance the Stabian baths in Pompeii seem to be poorly lighted, at least from outside openings. I suppose very little took place there after daylight hours, but in a villa that situation would be open for personal choice. A skylight might provide enough light on a night with a full moon. The Stabian bath did have a skylight in the vault of the Caldarum, and from the mention ("sky-light") I took that to mean a glazed opening. Its use included the ability to open it and it would have acted as a "temperature regulation valve" when the room became too hot. Klingan, thanks for mentioning the Stabian Baths. I found a copy of POMPEII ~ A Guide to the Ancient City by Salvatore Nappo on my bookshelf. It has some beautiful artistic reconstructions of the baths. Do you have that? Either way I have a question to ask about the location of the secondary fireplaces you mentioned. I have a floor plan and a legend of the baths I can send, to ask some questions off forum. Faustus I don't, but I will take a look for it as soon as I come by the University library, probably Monday or Tuesday. For the fire place I cannot quite exactly remember and it will take some time before I can confirm it to 100% certainty. I have only found it in one source, but it's very sensible and I can very much imagine the good it would do to the overall system. 1 Entrance men, 2 Entrance women, 3 palaestra, 4 foot bath pool, 5 pool, 6 apodytherium (men), 7 frigidarium (men), 8 tepidarium (men), 9 caldarium (men), 10 caldarium (women), 11 tepidarium (women), 12 apodytehrium (women), 13 latrin. The fire place would be behind the (east side) man's caldarium or tepidarium. I am going to Pompeii this summer myself to take a look at the system.

Those two movies are quite funny. Have anyone seen Cloverfield yet? I'm not 100% sure on the title, from the trailers it's looking like another Godzilla rip-off.

Great post Faustus! My apologies for delaying the answer, I

To add an unorthodox point of view, the Romans them self. This is meant to be seen through foreign trade where metals constantly were exported. No enemies harmed Rome more then the constant inflation during the Empire.

Wow, this is a beautiful model! Out of curiosity do you know on what basis this model is made? Archaeological, logically interpretation literary sources, strict literary sources, paintings?

There was another thread too, they were merged around Jul 28 2007 when I started the thread with the now existing title. I have since the found some rather interesting facts concerning lead in general. With the risk of repeating old facts: - During the empire around 80.000 tons lead were produced each year. This is beacuse it's a bi product when mining for silver. As you refine the silver ore less then 1% is silver, the rest lead. As an example it's been calculated that the large Athenian silver mine from 483 BC produced 20 tons silver per year during the 5th century compared to 8000 tons of lead. - The previous fact unavoidable led to the over use of lead in antiquity, since they had far more then what they could use. - It should be noted that at least a part of the population were aware of the injuries effects of lead: There are more authors writing about it too, I cannot remember who now as it's almost midnight. The point is however that even as at least some part of the population knew about the problem it did not stop them from using it. We may therefor assume that the (If there were any) poisoning wasn't very serious unless you worked with lead all day long.