Favonius Cornelius

Yes, and I have already bribed or threatened them. It's fixed.

I'm sure the Romans used sundials for their entire history. And their use went beyond them as well.

Don't forget William Shatner, he's immortal too.

Don't know much about imitation legions, but I know Darius made imitation phalanxes to attempt to counter Alexander. Actually, Caesar recruited his Legio Alaudae, would that count?

Would be pretty expensive I'd imagine. All that iron, which needs to be secured well to massive stone walls, then you have to get authentic ships...

Could someone give me the low-down on what this book is about? I'll never read it, I can think about a few hundred books ahead of it, but I would like to know the basic premise.

In a rare unexpected opinion from Favonius, he sides with the church, because this building is far too important to take lightly or poorly. I am sick of Turk racisim over it's rich archaeological content.

Wow another option too, thanks Lucius! House Cornelius House of Cornelius House Cornelii Domus Cornelii Villa Corneliana Domus Corneliana

Ever watch the old Star Trek Episode 'Who Mourns for Adonais?' It'll make you want to take up Greek polytheism. I could understand that interpretation.

Thanks for the advice everyone! Indeed! Roma Victor has a number of different kinds of guild groups: Cult, Legion, Auxiliary legion, and House. RedBedlam being an English company which is producing this game, I guess it's not surprising.

How does that saying go... Better to be a lieutenant of Satan than a slave of God? All religions contradict themselves, and to believe in their flawed logic is to embrace insanity.

But couldn't you just assume the 'of?' I could give another example by saying Johnson Family, which is the same as saying House Cornelius or the Cornelius House? The Cornelius family. When you use an English word and a latin word togeather anyway, can you not choose the declension?

As some of you may know, I am a big fan of the Roma Victor game, and in preparation for the eventual release of the game I have formed a guild of friends as have others. My guild I call 'House Cornelius.' Another guild has the name 'House Valerii.' They seem to insist that it is the more proper way of spelling the name, with the ii rather than the ius. I figure we are both right. There is only one Cornelius in the House and he is the patron thus House Cornelius, however there are many Valerii in House Valerii. It is the difference of saying the House of Johnson or the House of Johnsons correct? Is there any strick sense where one or the other would be grammatically incorrect?

I disagree. I think Christianity turned out to be valuable in the end.

I do not presume we know or don't know, and therefore arrive at still not knowing. It is true based on logical deduction that we cannot know. If one cannot accept that fact, then they operate outside logic or do not understand the process of coming to that ultimate final deduction.

Same, it is arrogant to presume humans know ^*&* about reality.

The Lapps to the north? It's always the guy over the next hill.

I think the biggest contributer is not on your list: a failure to have a system of succession to the throne. All empires have issues with this, but Rome seems to have a specially difficult time with civil war.

I'm not sure what the proof is. Although it can be guessed that the Goths of the 5th century were able to lay siege to smaller cities with lesser defensive works perhaps, just after Adrianople they marched on Constantinople and on seeing the city walls promptly turned around realizing they didn't couldn't lay siege to it and later in the early 5th century in Northern Italy they couldn't take Milan in a siege Alaric's "sack" of Rome, during his fourth "siege", was because the Salarian Gate was opened for him by an inside job of one sort or another. It should be noted that by this time it wasn't even the seat of the emperor, Ravenna was. Rome was undermanned so much so that during one of the earlier sieges by Alaric 6,000 Roman soldiers had tried to fight their way into the city to help man the defensive works. This is all well after Caesar's time at least, when the Celts were still a power of some degree. Even so, the Goths or any barbarian in these later days for that matter, could potentially hire mercenaries from civilized lands to do the siegecraft for them.

It is possible to be backwards and yet do something really well.

The Greeks wanted what seemed to be in their long history what was their birthright: freedom. Ever since Alexander and his father Philip I united Greece under the Macedonians, the individual cities had always pined for independence. After Macedonia threw in their support for Carthrage in the Second Punic War, Macedonia suddenly gained a powerful new enemy in Rome. The Greek cities saw this and used it to try and throw off the shackles of Macedonian power. It might have worked too if it were not for Greek arrogance causing the Romans to feel the eventual need to remain in the area.

Where does one find ancient fonts?

Can anyone explain to me why Greek did not in some way form the languages of the east from the edge of India to Aegyptrus to Asia Minor? At least in the area of the Roman Empire, Greek existed just as long as Latin, yet it seems that the language did not leave it's stamp on the local tongue.

Very cool Philhellene thanks! Do they constantly add more to it?

Tried that with Iraq, comes with its own bag-o-worms.