P.Clodius
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Yayyyy lets celebrate!
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And here in Ohio, that would be BRUTUS! Riiigghhhtt!!!
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I still can't believe you were born today...well not today, but this day 35 yrs ago Anyway, have a good one!
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...belay that, I'm half an hour early. Doh!!!
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...have come, but not yet gone. Who's gonna get banned?
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Define "Great". There are many, Africanus, Cicero, Marcellus (The Sword), Nero (Metaurus), Augustus, ...etc However, there is only one man the average person in the street could probably name. For good reason too!
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Indeed, all the cultures exchanged ideas, kept some, discarded others. Look at Gilgamesh and Noah, etc...
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Sounds excellent...and if I might add, applicable to our times, n'est pas?
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A prequel would be nice, but, I don't think a movie could do our favorite period justice. There's simply too much meat to fit on the sandwich. Maybe they could focus on the events surrounding the Catilinarian Conspiracy--it provides a nice foreboding of conflicts to come, with all the major players still on hand (Caesar, Servilia, Pompey, Cicero, Cato, etc). I kinda think my namesake would provide veritable feast of scandal, lust, violence and hypocrisies to appease any 21st century audience!
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I agree almost entirely (for once, hehehe) with MPC except for the above statement. The people did have legislative power but ONLY after a long struggle, (Struggle of the Orders). And there was a ruling class in the early Republic from which the Patricians descended. Can anyone provide examples of Plebeian senators in the Early Republic, (something I haven't looked into)?
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37 huh..It's all down hill from here buddy!
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You could start HERE then HERE
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I'm looking to start a new career in advertising, publishing, or such. I'm building a portfolio to showoff my PS skills and ended up using artwork from our favorite subject, the ancients...HAHAHA Feel free to peruse. HERE
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House of Augustus Opened to the Public
P.Clodius replied to Ludovicus's topic in Archaeological News: Rome
There are many factors probably...One would be conditions, climate, etc. Also there is the standing of the personality himself. Augustus was revered, other emperors weren't. I seem to remember reading someplace that ancient empire wide tourists would make a pilgrimage to Augustus' place of birth. -
Here's mine....Share yours...
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All referring to Hadrian of course....On the subject of Bacchus, he must have been most revered at Cato's domus..!
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Delusions of grandeur huh? Could it be that you're a well grounded individual with a desire just to get things done and dispense with tomfoolery!!
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Philhellenes in the Roman Republic
P.Clodius replied to Gladius Hispaniensis's topic in Romana Humanitas
There is evidence of the opposite. Cato the Younger was a philhellene. Far from ejecting philosophers from Rome, Cato the Younger had philosophers by his side in Rome, when travelling abroad, and even at Utica. His last night was spent discussing the Stoic paradoxa. Indeed, he is perhaps the most famous of the stoics. -
Think of the model posing for such in the middle of January, even John Holmes would probably experience shrinkage!
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A prequel would be nice, but, I don't think a movie could do our favorite period justice. There's simply too much meat to fit on the sandwich.
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On just about any news channel, Veto, I deny.
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No sheeit!!! It ain't what he called them its the number.
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While re-reading Claudius the God I got to the part where he is describing his triumph, in which he says he had 24 "Yeomen" with axes and rods! Anyone know if this was standard for the emperors? I know 24 was the number in republican times for a dictator, but with an emperor having Imperium Maius would this be symbolized with 24 lictors?
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True enough. But his holding onto power was due more to political machinations at Rome than skill on his part. All the scholars, (atleast the ones I've read) are universal is saying he got off very lightly. There were few generals as capable as Sulla in ancient rome and his desire to end the conflict and not prosecute it to its inevitable conclusion, to deal with the Marians must have made Mithridates breath a sigh of relief.
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Cicero himself gives us a clue, though far from concrete, but perhaps he saw in the trial himself as a future target. Pro C. Rabiro perduellionis reo "...But the true design of this prosecution is, that that great aid which the majesty of the state and our dominion enjoys, and which has been handed down to us from our ancestors, may be banished from the republic; that the authority of the senate, and the absolute power of the consul, and the unanimity of all good men, may henceforth be of no avail against any mischief or ruin designed to the state..."