Gaius Paulinus Maximus

As it happens they are promoting this series of books in Waterstones bookshops (UK) at the moment, I've recently bought the first book in the series for my daughter, she's only five, I've been reading her a chapter every night at bedtime and she's loving it and as it happens so am I . Augusta, although these books are enjoyable and quite informative about that period in history I think they will be a bit to young for your son, they are slightly along the 'famous five' lines but with an ancient twist, four young children solving mysteries with the help of their courageous loyal dog! I don't think that would help too much with your sons A-level

At least you're in the same country at the meet-up! But, I shall be thinking of you all during your running-around, knees-bent behavior! I'm within about twenty miles of the meet up! But unfortunately I can't go due to the wife celebrating her birthday on the same week end. So close but yet so far! When all the guys will be getting drunk and discussing all things Roman, I'll be getting dragged around the shops!

Your right Gaius Paulinus Maximus, I don't think made my question clear. I was thinking more of for the stabilization of Rome, not merely conquering and adding more terroritory. I chose Caligula simply because he seemed to be the first one to really abuse his power. He realized no one could stop him, so he didn't restrain himself. I totally agree with the Commodus approach though, and though I've never heard of Elagabulus, now that I looked him up, the seems to be equally awful. I was simply curious of everyone's opinion, and learning more about the emperors(such as Elagabulus, and his Vestal Virgin Wife). When it comes down to learning about the Emperors of Rome you won't find a better site than Here, It gives you the history of every Emperor ever to sit in the hot seat

Stop it you guys! I'm starting to get really jealous now!

It depends what you mean by best? Best in terms of conquering and expanding the empire or best in stabilizing and making the most of the empire. For conquering and expanding I'd have to go for Trajan, and for stabilizing I'd go for Antoninus Pius After all they were two of the so called five good emperors.

Life in Europe during the Dark Ages was very hard. Very few people could read or write and nobody expected conditions to improve. The only hope for most people during the Middle Ages was their strong belief in Christianity. The ruling system had collapsed and taken with it stable government, schools, libraries, a uniform currency, and a common language. Bartering had replaced money as the major purchasing system. Cities and towns had been destroyed and transportation between them had become extremely difficult if not impossible. On a brighter note (no pun intended) the Dark Ages were anything but dark in other parts of the world. The Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa studied and improved on the works of the ancient Greeks while civilization flourished in sub-Saharan Africa, China, India, and the Americas. Which brings up another question, why wasn't Europe able to cope with on come of the dark ages as well as the other continents, maybe because we were more so heavily dependant on the Roman way of life than those farther afield?

I seemed to have missed this show, but from the clips it looks like it might be worth watching, I liked the way that Hannibal was narrating over the action, all cool, calm and collected instead of the usual screams and shouts and clash of weapons, it was different, I'll keep a look out for any repeats.

Thank you for the Update Augusta! There is a good chance that it might be aired around that time. How long has it been since series one was first brodcast in the UK? One year or two years? Either way it's been long. I sincerely hope that series 2 will be worth watching. I've been avoiding threads and news about it, although I have come across some bits and pieces here and there - and from what I've heard, it deviates from the historical record a lot more than the first series. Hmm... If it does do this, then I hope that they at least make it entertaining enough for me to ignore the errors. I've also been avoiding the many threads that keep popping up on the forum, although I've been very tempted to take a peek to see exactly what's going on but from what I've picked up along the way it sounds like the season 2 hasn't been up to the standard that we've been expecting, I think it may have become more like a novel than being historicaly correct, which is a shame, but I suppose we'll just have to make up our own minds.

I had a day out in Ilkley with my girls.

As most of you already know, my beautiful , gorgeous, sexy wife :wub: got me the best present ever.....A trip to Rome for my 30th birthday, well to say I was chuffed to bits would be a serious understatement, I've actually been to Rome before but that was on a football trip to watch Leeds Utd v AS Roma in the Champions League, yes that's right, Leeds were once a good team! But anyway as it was a football trip the only sights I got to see were the inside's of the bars and tavern's. Anyway this time I wanted to see everything, well as much as we could cram into two full days. We had a good flight time so we were in our hotel for about 10:30 which by the way was absolutely fantastic, it was called Hotel Fortyseven and was located on the Via Petroselli just adjacent to the Tiber island and within spitting distance of the Forum and Colosseum. I would recommend this hotel to anyone, it is a bit pricey but in my opinion well worth the money. Day 1 We set off armed with a street map of Rome and a good guide book, We'd decided not to go straight to the forum, Colosseum and Palatine area's first and save that for the day after so we could get an early start at it, so we set off in the opposite direction and headed toward the Pantheon. On the way there we came across Piazza Navona which for those who don't know was once the grandstand of the stadium of Domitian and is now a piazza with shops, caf

Authorization mismatch!!!!!! What the hell does that mean?? I've been trying to post on the forum since Monday but everytime I've tried I always got the same bloody error message...."Authorization mismatch".... I couldn't post, make an entry into my blog or gallery, couldn't PM, couldn't make changes to my control panel, basically all I could do was read the board. I finally got intouch with PP through a personal email who then put me in touch with Moon who worked his magic and got me back on track so a big big thank you to PP and Moonlapse for sorting this annoying problem out. It's been a frustrating few days, reading all the new threads but not been able to contribute but hopefully that will be the end of it...........I hope

Happy birthday Virgil Have a good one mate :drunk: :stretcher:

Funny you should say that MPC because that is exactly where I am staying, the hotel looks amazing, like you say is ideally situated for all the major attractions, if it's good enough for MPC then it's good enough for GPM . Oh and don't worry the extra packs of batteries are already packed

The tux has been well and truly packed away

Thanks very much everyone for the birthday wishes especially yours Nephele........ now that would be some birthday treat!!.... just one thing, if i throw the dancing girls a gold coin or two , will I get extra's And yes, Augusta 22 legs that knew how to kick a ball would come in very handy.... times running out As for my celebrations, they'll start properly on Thursday morning when I depart for..........Rome, my darling wife :wub: has booked a surprise break in Roma and I can't bloody well wait! EDIT. oh and thanks Ram on behalf of GO

As my birthday treat my good lady wife :wub: has organized a surprise trip for us to Rome I was just wondering if anybody has any tips or advice on places to visit ( aside from the obvious), places to eat and drink, transport, best times of day to visit the sites, what to do, what not to do, etc etc etc. I've been to Rome once before but that was on a football trip to see my beloved Leeds play Roma in the champions league......ohhhh happy days, so because of that I didn't get anytime to see the sights properly. We fly out on Thursday morning so any help and advice would be greatly appreciated THANKS.

On my understanding a full strength legion in Republican times consisted of 4,200 men, each legion was split into ten cohorts each containing 420 men, in each cohort there was one maniple of 60 triari, one of 120 princips, one of 120 hastari and one of 120 velites. In the Imperial era the nuber was raised to 6,000 men with 480 men per cohort, apart from the first cohort which had 960 men.

An excellent essay Severus, I found it very informative, the tribunate played a major part in the ups and downs of the republic and I for one will look forward to your list of worthy and not so worthy tribunes.

Congrats to all the winners and to everyone who entered. I've just read the Augusta's entry and was very very impressed, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the entries I take my hat off to each and everyone of you. :notworthy:

smartarse Good game, I'm just waiting for one to come along that I've got a chance with, I've search all over the net for the pictures so far but I've had no luck finding them

I don't think the blame lays with Sulla, after he'd finished with his Dictatorship he gave the ruling of Rome back to the senate, albeit a senate that he had picked and new laws that he had instigated, but the senate still had control of Rome for another fifty(ish) years. In my opinion the death of the senate was during Octavian/Augustus rise to power.

I can't believe that I forgot about this topic myself, the question you asked is the one of the reasons why I started the thread originally, and thanks to PNS and NN's list's and Cecil's mathematicall genius, we now know. It's quite ironic that the ancestors of the later Emperors would have done battle, been conquered and submitted to Roman rule, only for their children's children etc to become rulers of the the very Empire that caused the downfall in the first place.

I am truly shocked!!! :punk:

Strength through unity -τελέσματα αναζήτησης για Not sure whether this is correct, maybe you'd be better off asking this question on an ancient Greek website, this site is after all dedicated to ancient Rome. Good luck with your search