Onasander

I remember reading a 9th century pdf a couple years back dealing with equestrian formations, and it claimed to of been decended from roman tactics.... does anyone know what I'm talking about, cause I can't seem to find it on the net anymore, not surprising, since it was a surprise for me to of found it way back then (it's rare to find such a technical text dating from the 9th century in western europe)!

The Prefessor that runs deremilitari.org is into medieval weaponry, he might not know much about the arrowheads, but he'll have a much more extensive network of people who would know. The have a forum on that site (though it's hardly ever used), drop a line. Be sure not just to ask for the info you wanted, but also links to more specialized groups in fletching and metallurgy.

Got it half way done. I picked on old penguin classic book, actually two in one, the Jugunthine War & Conspiracy of Catiline, I finished the rough draft for the Jugunthine war, not only did I review the book but also wrote a brief essay on it's importance and the events that take place; as to Catiline.... we'll, I just got writers block cause I really deep down inside care not for that story, and resultingly have been dragging on writting it... just much more attacted to the Juguntine war. I'll try to have it ready before Christmas, along with an Essay/Review on Petronius' Satyricon (but only on the pre-condition that I don't get banned for that one, given the subject matter!). I'm planning to use them as sources in my upcomming American Government class during Christmas break, so might as well write a quick review of them.

I don't know what it is, but she claims it is a salad, but I don't see any lettuce, or vegetable matter for that matter. It's purple and it quivers, and she expects me to eat it tonight!

I have post staff duty tommorow, I'll try to write one or two reviews. I don't want a book sent to me unless it's a E-Book, I got too many books as it is and already ran out of room a while ago. Can I also submit a review on a portion of a book, like Mahan's introduction to his book "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783", it deals extensively with the Punic wars, but the rest of the book does not.

One of the early Byzantine Emperors, same as a Roman emperor, but with superior reflection on the west collapse. If I could meet anyone though in Roman history, it would have to be Boethius, the Caesars would bore me silly.

Anyone read "The Book Nobody Read"? I havn't finished reading it, but the author went and tracked down each of the surviving first and second editions of De Revoluntionabus and looked for annotations to see what great minds in history actually read the books and it's influence in history... it's a surprisingly interesting read.

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bioanthropologist, that's a branch of Anthropology I've never heard of before.

What kind of ceremony would you have for the return of a shrunken head? Images of the movie Dodgeball come to mind. Anyone ever read the Jack London short story The Red One? http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writing...One/redone.html

Vikings were two thousand years behind the Chinese thanks to T'ai Kung and his work in rising the Chou Dynasty to pre-emminance. http://www.sinorama.com.tw/en/8605/605006e1.html

I'm not going to argue about communism, it's marxism (forced communism) I got problems with. Afraid it's not a question of ancient human nature. Take modern China, even during the era of greater rebublican control in the early twentieth century, they could not eradicate the long tradition of warlords controling all aspects of power cept for the De Jure. The PRC has recently changed it's military territories from 11 to 7, each with it's own Specialized Rapid Reaction forces (Airborne/ Air assualt) and unique special forces special designed for operation in that territory. The territories are designed for a certain external threat, such as Vietnam (China invaded in 1988), the Phillipines and Taiwan, India, Russia etc. Now, this is a beautifully designed idea for a long stabilized nation like America or Brazile, but in a country that less than 60 years ago consolidated it's territory and has such a massive differance between races and topologyas well as a long tradition of regional military and political autonomy, this will likely prove disastorous during future government upheavals that states regularly have. On paper, the Tetrachy sucks. It's not even as good as the Chinese system, cause the chinese system leaves the greater territorial defences of the whole intact upon the collapse of the Federal government (each region is designed for high-tech, local wars against an external threat... in other words, each warlord could fight the non-chinese nation it's bordered to without the need of resources or manpower external to his territory. Rome couldn't hold it's ground like that, sense the competing Ceasars had no long tradition of comming to thier competitors aid (Chinese political strategy is very Machevalli in nature, do to the long nature of thier civil wars. whereas Roman civil wars were finished comparitevely quick and had much few players involved at any one time). If a ceasar goes down and thier power is upsurped, no one in Rome would readily deal with illigetimate or barbarian players for the throne, until they found they had no choice to, but then it would be to late. In other words, the Tetrarcy is of a Fuedal design, like China's, but without the long Feudal tradition and necissary strategies as well as counterbalances at play. The question of succesion was only lightly taken care of and not throughly thought out for the succesful continuation of power.

Created after world war 2, but like so many later analysis and terminologies to describe the past, just as valid. I feel it's time that the west should start letting down it's guard and allow eastern analysis of western history in, Kishido is definately in my opinion on the cutting edge. A book on the repair of volkswagons is not the same as a general history of volkswagons, now is it? When discussing a range of technical questions that relates to the manuals or mechanical arts, you wouldn't go jumping head first into the history books, now would you. You know the two topics are seperate, as the writtings of Vegetius or Onasander are of a different character than that of Livy. In the west, what term do we have to explain the differences between the writtings of histories.... which are still highly valued to me, and the works aimed at the castes and professions of the soldier, or politician, or doctor, philosopher to discriminate the master texts and thier rich traditions, some of which still flourish to this day. Kishido exposed that the west parralles the east in this, something many I know do not believe. As to some of my comments being left field, I wouldn't have to play it so much if the rest of the team would break it's huddle in the right. I can be as conservative as the next guy, but I'm not afraid to put out the odd idea like mabey the romans had forts north or hadrians wall or the Etruscan and Palagian idea.... do I actually believe these things.... no, just something I thought up oneday and threw out to see if anyone else thought of it, or ever wondered. Am I going to put my whole repetation on the line someday saying these questions of mine are true.... heck no. But with Kishido, I might just keep on putting it out till it catches on in the west... it's adding nothing new to the western traditions but the name.

You need to read the book Kishido. Infact, I recommend that this military forum be split into two; one for military history under a roman name, and another dedicated to the roman varient of Kishido, preserving the Japanese name. Kishido, the Western Way of the Warrior, deals highly with Codes, morality, the Art of War, and the philosophies and other knowledge needed historically by the western warrior by focusing on the great ancient practices and historical master texts. It was devoloped shortly after WW2 in England by a Japanese monk who was charged with teaching college students, many of whom were to later lead in imperial leadership positions, martial arts. Relizing the impossibilities of teaching philosophically responsible combatives by simultaniously teaching the physical aspects of combat along side of strange Eastern philosophies, religion, morality, and ideology, he instead took the great mastertexts of the ancient western world from the Greek and Roman times as well as later Frankish and medieval and taught on a variety of interrelated topics, Creeds, Morality, AoW, ancient legal codes, medicine, philosophy. etc. in the hopes the sons of the British Empire would be more receptive to this knowledge, given they've heard and studied the very same texts since childhood. It deeply bothers me that I must talk about issues of Kishido in the same forum as Roman History (don't get me wrong, I love History). I just think the two should remain seperate. It's the same to me as putting Religion and Politics, though mabey in some way related, in the same forum.

I would have a hard time being intimidated by someone dressed like that. The airborne troops from India do the physical discipline thing too, I'm not real sure of it's effectiveness, cause all I saw was a whole lot of swating, confusion, and screwing up of the drill movements- though I'll have to say they were much more disciplined than the US troops and could out PT us.

I hope the priests of this cult didn't practice human sacrifices, imagine the embarrassment of being sacrificed to the god of the sewers!

I read it in a Translation of a French historian, he talked about the cult of Victoria, the origins of trophies and the Fetials, as if they could outright reject a peace treaty and force the war back into play if they wanted to.

Oh, I don't think I ever wrote there... http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2&st=195

Hi, I'm Onasander and I'm 22. I live in a glass cage of emotion.

From now on, the hidden Administrative forums on this site should be written in Greek.

What were the origin of the republic of Venice and Ragusa? I only know of the Ragusans during Ottoman domination and the piazza, and really don't know much about Venice other than Attila caused them to flee to the atoll. Did they have continious Roman/romano-successor state governments from ancient times to the near recent era?

You know, the Celts used soap, the Romans didn't. They also got more excercise than many Romans(all that migrating), I hear they would even fine people for being fat.

I don't think the Romans viewed thier walls as the extent of thier territory, but rather as a internal defence, and I'm placing this on a hunch from my own frontier sense having live and studied tactics in West Virginia and seeing the real frontier of Alaska. The walls in England seemed highly inadequate for anything cept keeping the sheep in, think it was more psychological than anything else, and cost the taxpayers nothing, since there would be a couple of legions just standing around not doing much other than eating. The real defence of the boarders must of taken place north of the wall, and the lack of urbanization would be understandable since the communities would of be more open to attack. If I'm correct, many of the Roman forts should still be out there undisturbed in underpopulated areas of England, under the fields or heck, under castles even. The diagrams of European walls I have seen seem much more ferocious though, my hunch doesn't extend as strongly to them.

The image in my mind...

Ouch, Louisiana in 51st place..... that's gotta hurt.