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Yeah, in the Russian part of the Internet this kinda stuff is also getting increasingly popular with challenges and puzzles like the below one. Is there anything wrong with the picture I've attached to the post? Why (explain)? ? One has to be very selective to trust any sources these days 🙂
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Surely, the guy, who got the whole month named after him while he was still alive, would be able to play a little bit as Bill Murray did in this memorable scene 🙂
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwY_tQdKCk
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Is it true that Norfolk had the biggest area of enclosures out of all English counties? or does this hold true only for the 16th century? -
I am in the process of reading Sansom's last novel Tombland from the Shardlake series, the events of the novel take place in Norwich too 🙂 Couldn't find the novel in the original English, but the Russian translation's turned out to be pretty good.
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One more line of argument that came to my mind. Did you ever wonder why all statues devoted to Augustus show him young and almost divine? When Augustus died he was aged 75. That's because Augustus ordered to do so. That's how powerful and republican he was in shaping the future for his own imperial image, the future where no other image of him would be possible. It's almost like Kim Jong-il or Fidel back then.
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It seems that out of all Roman emperors the thread will be mostly devoted to Augustus. The reason why many Roman historians, including the ones you cited, were rather positive in their writings about Augustus is because they were writing and they were published at the time when the political tradition of emperors power still existed, and Augustus was regarded as the one who started it. Undermining the whole idea of emperors pretensions to power would be suicidal for any writer. That's why in the quotes Dio, Suetonius and Augustus himself (in his own Res Gestae) emphasized the importance that the new establishment played in preventing the political turmoil of the earlier decades (esp. compared with the bloody time of Sulla when how many? 20-30% of senators? were ruthlessly murdered) Unlike Sulla Caesar (the one who started the tradition of "crossing the Rubicon") established his power by increasing the number of his loyal supporters among the senators, thereby increasing the overall number of senators, which didn't help him to avoid the assassination in Rome. Augustus did what even Caesar didn't dare to complete: he permanently garrisoned the whole of army of his bodyguards in the very city. That's how much republican he was. It is quite easy to avoid accusations of meddling in someone's death if one uses others to do the dirty work while distancing himself from the whole performance, and Augustus could be a good actor too... I always had a high opinion of British critical thinking because you would even publicly mock your own politicians on the TV, which may be unheard in some other countries. So why not to use your mind here again and assume that the crowd could be bribed and acted in someone's interests in order to achieve a political goal?
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He never had to. We've gotta sift the wheat from the chaff, as you say in English. One thing is to be able to do something, the other is to have actually done it. The theory of "stationary bandit" I referred to was proposed by well known American political scientist Mancur Olson. You must have heard of the theory, I am sure, so no need to google. I don't understand why you stubbornly keep insisting on Augustus deeply rooted republican views. They were nothing but the false modesty. It's like when you catch a fly, instead of killing it you tear its wings and watch it helplessly crawling because you don't want to be a murderer, so you pretend to be a good shepherd, may even start feeding the insect. That's how it worked between Augustus and the Senate. Just let's not forget what Sulla did to many senators when he had to. So both Augustus and the senators must have had fresh memories of the fate that their predecessors had to face.
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Emperors were not the highest political status a person could achieve in ancient Rome. Starting from the end of the 2nd century AD Romans would sometimes have 2 and even 3 emperors at the same time. Amongst them the highest political status would only have the person who also held the religious Pontifex Maximus' office. But eventually that had been changed too following the murder of emperor Maximinus Thrax. Both of his 2 successors, Pupienus and Balbinus, were raised to Pontifex at the same time. It is for this very reason that Augustus also occasionally held the office of censor, which allowed him to filter out any disloyal names and by shortlisting only the senators he trusted he could ensure that there would be no opportunity for someone to raise an unpleasant issue which would gain the majority support and necessitate Augustus to use his veto power in order to prevent some undesirable political outcomes ☺️ In fact, at the time of Augustus the agenda for most senatorial meetings would be often decided with only a few senatorial participants in Augustus' house on the Palatine. Imagine a powerful bundit who lives in the centre of Rome in his newly built castle-like luxury house. The same guy also placed the Praetorian guard within the boundary of Rome, which was the first occasion when such troops were legally and permanently garrisoned in Rome. The house of senatorial meetings, Curia Julia, is situated not that far from his house, so should any trouble arise (such as, for instance, an emergency meeting held by senators in order to depose the bundit) the guy would be quick to respond by sending his loyal troops to break the meeting. Would anyone dare to even think of overthrowing the guy when his troops are sitted just next door? That's how "republic" under Augustus functioned.
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Yeah, I wonder if there would have been any development of the human civilization without wars at all. All scientific break-throughs and technical innovations seem to be the result of them, although this is cynical to say.. I suppose it should be more wide-scale than it is for the moment though
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I suppose so, but if you want to believe in high diplomatic mission of the promiscuous Prince Andrew or corrupt Juan Carlos it's up to you 😁
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I never claimed to be a specialist in this. To me the whole subject seems superfluous. Just in case you didn't know, Russia is not the priority target of the green policy Europe tries to implement. The US (and China) will be more seriously affected, due to volume of the economy. That's the very reason why the US withdrew from the Kyoto protocol and changed their position on joining the Paris agreement. Unfortunately, my visits to this part of the Internet become less frequent as time goes on 😊 I wish it was the opposite. I hope you'll bring some change to make it a more valuable resource for visits. What democracy are you talking about? Europe has the highest concentration of monarchies across the world (with the exception of Arab peninsula perhaps). Sponsoring a bunch of families of parasites gives a slightly distorted perspective on the democracy, don't you think?
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I see now. So the world needs Europe because European values include food of good quality and because people of Europe are carbon-conscious. That makes Europe look very valuable indeed 🙂 Btw there was a Russian scientist, a member of Russian academy of sciences (it's like the Roayl society in the UK), who argued with the fact that carbon dioxide may lead to the temperature increase and climate change (the very reason Europe has followed the discourse of the green economy). The guy's name is Sorokhtin, here is the link to his book (quite enjoyable reading, I have to say) https://books.google.ru/books/about/Evolution_of_Earth_and_its_Climate.html?id=QHbeAq8YeXoC&redir_esc=y I guess it was the high appreciation of the European solidarity and common market what made your homeland vote for Brexit after all 😁
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Hi all, It's been a while since my last visit to this honorable website, and I see very little has changed here :) The same topics are discussed over and over again with subtle differences. I know Europe is often regarded as the cradle of the modern civilization, where the history of the ancient Rome and Christianity take a very special role. With over 500 mln of population Europe is now no comparision to what it used to mean to the rest of the world in the 19th century. But it keeps spending its very limited resources on re-studying its worthless past which adds nothing to its future. What a waste of time and resouces, someone would say. But what else can it offer? what else does it produce, except for tons of waste paper? Any American would argue that in teens of years Europe has produced not a single unicorn IT company to make a new difference. What other things can we praise it for? I don't want to sound like an ignorant barbarian. Although I was born in the Asian part of Russia, one can still find some "gracia" (as they say in Spanish) of the European education, if you scratch really hard :) I thought this thread would be most appropriate for this part of the forum, given rather limited choice.
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Btw I remember I came across this interesting article not long ago https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/karahan-tepe-winter-solstice-0016212 A couple more articles about ancient solar temples as we move from Turkey to Stonehenge in the UK https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/stonehenge-solar-calendar-0016484 https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/stonehenge-solar-calendar-0016574
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The ancestor of the founders of Rome, Aeneas, escaped from Troy when it was destroyed by the Sea people around 13-12 century BC. The main god of Troy was Apollo, a solar deity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_deities?wprov=sfla1 So Romulus and his twin brother Remus must have had some prior knowledge of the Sun cult. The temple of Apollo Sosianus proves that the cult had presence in Rome in the early republican period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ancient_Roman_temples?wprov=sfla1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7tDWA9PfGg
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Democratizing disaster relief via Amazon accounts?
Novosedoff replied to caesar novus's topic in Hora Postilla Thermae
I'd kindly ask you to keep it professional here and not to turn the forum into a political dispute club with multiple threads revolving around what's unfolding in Ukraine 🙂 We gotta remember that Europe has not always been "a peaceful home place for many nations", the security alert was especially high in the Cold war era when CIA, KGB and Europe's security agencies massively explored social contradictions and injustice to sponsor multiple extremist movements, such as the Red brigades etc. Sometimes the front faces and slogans they chose were misleading and even contrary to their real aims and actions. Humanitarian and economic aid to civilians is highly appreciated. But the military uniform and especially armaments may raise concerns with further retaliation actions, which will inevitably make European and American civilians exposed to new kinds of threat. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk
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Well, I didn't say that no man in his right mind would worship a goddess (many would still pray a dead Jew: people are more nuts than we think) The point is that if you add up all the temples dedicated only to female gods you'll end up with 27 = 11 + 6 + 4 + 3 + 3. While 27 out of 41 is about 65%, which is apprx. the same what we observe today in Russian churches as women participation rate.
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I quite like Indian tunes sometimes. When I lived near Afghanistan, local folks and Russian girls watched a lot of Indian cinema there. Their movies are always romantic and very musical, with dances and songs. Although I can't imagine myself watching Indian movies, Indian music seems very "digestive" sometimes.
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Yeah, I just recall the correspondence I had with someone 1-2 years ago (was it you? or perhaps someone else, because you ain't a religious freak). The correspondence was about Pontius Pilate and what happened to him after his resignation from the job in Judeah. Someone tried to convince me that Pilate was retaliated for his deeds
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Hi, I think the attached table from a Rodney Stark's book may help to explain. I don't know where you reside, but in Russia 60-70% of the church congregation are respresented by women. Romans seemingly were no exception.
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