P.Clodius

Mine is M. Claudius Marcellus. 5 times Consul, winner of Spolia Opimia, capturer of Syracuse, the bain of Hannibal's existance in southern Itlay. Sacker of cities, exporter of Greek culture. Who's yours?

Hehehe, didn't even notice that!! No, email won't handle the amount of data. 1 CD = 2 lectures. 1 CD can hold 650MB of data. We're talking gigabytes here fellas!

Hmmm, FTP is File Transfer Protocol. Its an Application layer protocol of the TCPIP protocol suite. You use it to tranfsfer files from one place to another. With an FTP address I can transfer files to a place where you can get them!

OK, well get me an FTP addr and I'll dump em there for ya

Hehehehe, does your PC have speakers?

Do you have a PC, with a soundcard?

Contact me via any one of my IM's and you'll findout

Nope, if you want them gimme an FTP I can dump them on. Contact via any one of my IM's

Sure, why do you ask?

I have recently aquired a series of lectures in MP3 format, each lecture is 30 mins long and there are approximately 55 of them. If you would like these, contact me!

None, they're all enemies of the people and therefore are equal in my contempt of them

...may your stay in hell be eternal and tortuous!!!

I got 69%, probably because I live in NYC and would have to go up against 8 million zombies. Hmmmm, but I do that everyday anyway!!!

The scutum also weighed approximately 20lbs, imagine carrying that on your left arm all day!!

Wouldn't is be great if the US had Tribunes who could veto legislation!! Monthly assemblies on the Mall to get the crowd going, hehehe. I don't think the Senate, House and President are accountable enough. The UK is different and have the Priminister's question time once a week where he can be verbally raped by the opposition for all to see. I'm probably posting this in the wrong area, maybe you could create a "Politics" section?

Spartacus, have you been to one? That I'd love to see!!!

PP, looking at the bibliography. You've read all that? If so I thought I was doing well, and I have quite an extensive library!!! I didn't know M Grant had written so much, you didn't read his Caesar? This one is also good, its about my namesake and highlights the concepts and relationships that occured in the twighlight of the Republican period.

I won't read any fiction for fear of it influencing my knowledge of the real ancient Rome

Any of you guys strolled through Washington DC lately?

Skenderbeg, I'm right with you. Hannibal is overated. He was clever in that he used his opponents strength/tactics against them. But once the romans finaly started to take him and the situation seriously he was stumped at every turn. He didn't have an alternative plan and he was checked everywhere he turned.

And you're forgetting Reaganus and Bushus

For those of you who claim Scipio "may" be a Great general let me assure all of you he he meets the criteria of the Greats two fold. He was adaptable, flexible and he out generaled the Carthaginians in every encounter. Hannibal by contrast was a great general in a tactical sense, but what should have been his finest hour after Cannae was outdone by what could arguably have been Rome's finest hour, that is its defience of him. He consistantly underestimated the Roman resolve. And what did he accomplish 215BC to 202BC, NOTHING!! He failed to adapt, he didn't have an alternative plan!! He was held in check until the Carthaginians were uterly defeated in Spain, was powerless to stop Scipio's invasion of Africa, and allowed himself to be manouvered into an unfavourable position by Scipio, then he himself was uterly defeated. Scipio was by far the better general for all the reasons described. Hannibal is overestimated and Scipio is underestimated.

Durres was called Dyrachium and was Pompei's main supply base. Caesar tried to capture it but was beaten back. He later stated to his men that "If the enemy was led by a winner they'd have won the war today". Does your grandmother live near Pharsalus?

After Scipio took Carthago Nova he instututed a training program to keep his soldiers in shape for the following campaining season. "He devised the following scheme for the Tribunes, for the training of the infantry. He bade them on the first day to do a run of 4 miles in full equipment, on the second day to rub down, clean and generaly make a close examination of their equipment; on the next day to rest and do nothing; and on the following some men to fight with wooden swords sheathed in leather with a button at the end, and others to throw javelins similarly fitted with buttons, on the fifth day to revert to the first day and so on." Polybius.

Well Greek was the defacto international language due to Alexander's conquest so communication issues wouldn't have been that much of an issue. Some modern scholars maintain even relatively poor uneducated people like Jesus would have had some knowledge of Greek.