P.Clodius

Not unions per se but guilds, the precursor to unions I guess. Guilds were banned at one point during the late republic by Sulla I think. They were reintroduced during the tribuneship of my namesake and used as organized political muscle that were later countered by Milo's gladiators that led to the "Mob Rule" period.

I'm surprized nobody picked the immortal "Biggus Dickus"!

That IS nice. Unfortunately I have never see it before.

Actually Cicero attended a meeting "organized" by Servillia with all the major parricides in attendence and was scolded by her for continually commenting on "..on a job only half done", i.e. Antony was still alive too.

Awesome, good post. Livy rules!

Anyone watch lastnight? Brutus' character is really coming into play, great portrayal. Loved the triumph.

"Actually, they were usually clubbed to death by their own tent mates as I understand it" It was called "Fustuarium" I believe.

Cato would be REALLY pissed off to find Caesar is still an unstoppable force over 2000 years ofter his death!

His name was Xanthipus

Germanicus you're alive! How was your trip?

Welcome Darkwan. No one cares where you're from here, to quote Socrates. "I'm a citizen of the world" For "I'm" read "we're".

I agree, this was one of the main factors. "One of" being the operative phrase.

Conjecture on the outcome. Vorenus fights for the optomates, Pullo for Caesar. They meet in battle, one kills the other. Any thoughts?

Nope, its practcally camouflaged. Welcome all the same Cyrus. If you're a latin student I think there are some posts here you can help clarify.

I think he means that Scipio was a great strategist/tactician but suffered in the political arena. This is true to a certain extent. Scipio was, as was Caesar a great communicator. He understood and utilized the average romans superstitious nature and used religeon to give the impression he was/his actions were devine or were derrived from the gods. Implying that he spoke directly with the gods. Scipio's time and Caesar's were far apart. Caesar cajoled, bribed and threw aside mos maiorum to acheive his political goals at Rome. Scipio stayed within the bounds of the law. Caesar broke the law to arrive where he did. In a way, Scipio's treatment was a precursor/buildup to the Grachii. Caesar would certainly have read about and learned from Scipio's treatment.

There is the famous one included in one of the primary sources depicting Caesar's triumph. Don't recall if its Suetonius, Tacitus, or Plutarch. Lyrics only, alas no music!

That's right, most computer systems are set to GMT or UTC as it is called these days. So for Eastern time that would be -5 hours. 13H00 EST would be 18H00 GMT.

I doubt the large part of Hannibal's army adopted the legion tactics except for the few "ex"-roman allies that did go over to his side. When speaking of Hannibal's maneuverability it is generally assumed ( by me certainly) to be reffering to Hannibal's superioity in cavalry. The Numidians being the best cavalry available anywhere at the time. If you examine the confrontation between the carthaginians and romans at Illipa where cavalry didn't play a great role, the flexibilty of the legionary system clearly checkmates the carthaginians.

Without Rome we'd probably be living in a taliban/neanderthal type society. I believe I already posted on the subject as there was a thread with a similar title from around 6 mths ago.

No I'd say you were right. PM will be the judge of this issue I think, unless someone can recruit their local priest to UNRV! ;-)

Not that I recall. I do remember one anecdote about his wife some years later who complained about the unruly crowds and stated something along the lines that she'd wished her husband had gotten rid of more romans than he had.

Oh man I hope you're right. I wish they'd cover the 2nd Punic War, that'd be awesome...!

Its interesting how that plays out in the long run. Quintus, always in his brothers shadow wishes to follow/join the Caesarian camp but chooses to follow his brother instead. Cicero being Pater Familias, the head of the family makes the descision for the whole family and everyone is obliged to follow and dutifully does so. An indication that family loyalty was prized above almost all things.

That was at Gergovia wasn't it?