P.Clodius

I'm surprised no one has raised the question of Cato's different dress in the series compared to other characters.

In reality, Octavian Journeyed to Spain during Caesar's campaign against the pompeians. He was ship wrecked, then led his group through enemy held territory to Caesar, despite recovering from illness. Caesar was impressed. Octavian was about 16 years old at the time.

There are few inaccuracies. The show was by far the most well researched on Rome to date. There are some differences, probably due to production/time restraints etc. Some key characters are missing, some key events are missing too. But as PP stated, perhaps you could put together something to focus on that we could help with.

HAHAHAHA, that's awesome. The history of booze is the history of mankind...;-)

Site was down again. I know I don't need to point this out. If you need a hand finding a decent hosting service let me know.

Roman imperialism started long before any of the civil wars. The civil wars were a consequence of imperialism. I think you may be getting Imperialism confused with the Imperial period. While they are derrived from the same word, they have two completely different meanings.

The romans were taught from an early age about the military. The cursus honorum required some miltary service.

Excellent post, well said.

I was christened Anglican so I guess in theory I'm a christian. I however, think God has a name, and that is Charles Darwin...!

He is, IMO, the largest of life characters. His place in history is well deserved. He is as unstoppable in history as he was in life.

I disagree. The Triumvirates were symptoms of a corrupt oligarchy, an extreme solution to an even more extreme problem.

That my friend looks grounds for debate unto itself.

I think I get where you're going. In plain english, the Oligarchy was screwed without the Plebs.

Explain what you mean by "economic agents" please.

I agree with the evolved faction. Think of english, do you think you could coverse fluently with Chaucer? I doubt it. Languages evolve end of story. English currently has about 500k words and gets updated annually. In 500 years do you think they'll be able to read these forums?

He's a non-english speaker though. There's problem of communication, you'd have to get a priest as translator. Even then, Caesar would think he's communicating with a bunch of chimps!

..all of the above, plus the arval records, and a live roman.

While prosecuting a man accused of poisoning his dad with a laced piece of cake. After Cicero's blistering examination the accused stands and shouts, "I'd like to give you a piece of my mind." Response, "I'd rather have that than a piece of your cake!" hahaha

Concordia people, concordia...!

If you're refering to the "Army that drank rivers dry." that has been estimated by modern scholars as around 100-120K.

Here's what wikipedia says about that. "According to legend, Caesar was born by Caesarian section and is its namesake, though this is unlikely because at the time it was only performed on dead women, and his mother lived long after he was born. This legend is more likely a modern invention, as the origin of the Caesarian section is in the Latin word for to cut, caedo, -ere, caesus sum."

Conversely, what would you miss the most? Me, cigarettes.

This was (if you're refering to 390BC) before Rome had walls. The Gauls failed to take the Citadel where the youngbloods were hold up.

Here's what I found so far, secondary source wise. Unfortunately, no citations. The Cimbri and the Teutones were not only more numerous, but had a discipline and order, an equipment, leadership and general sense of organization, which speak of a much higher social level than had been reached by the poor and backward frontier tribes of Germans along the Rhine. And it is fairly certain that the scanty social acheivments of the latter were a very misleading index to the degree of civilization reached by the Baltic peoples to whom the Cimbri and Teutones belonged. G.P. Baker, Sulla I'll keep digging for more, I know I have it in my apartment someplace...!

Like I say, either Plutarch or some secondary source, can't remember. I'll see if I can find it.