Onasander

I'll ask my girlfriend, she's from that city, and half jewish at that!

Frontinus and Heron of Byzantium are on the net. Any commentary of the Swedish king Gustavius would also have it. Emperor Maurice's Strategikon used to be on the net, but it got yanked. Picture of Leo VI Tactical Constitutions are also floating about, and if you know latin, for the time being, till I can afford a couple real good source books, Vegetius' fourth book is on the net in Latin. If your really desperate more, you can read the writtings of Julius Ceasar and Virtuvius' Architectual manuels. Beyond this, it's Hypothetical stuff for me, like some guy I see quoted sometimes called Psuedo-Hygenius, mostly in leadership/logistic stuff, a few 9-10th century Byzantine AoW texts Dumbarton Oaks has translated but never publishes, and my mythical search for a couple of 6th Century German AoW book written in latin (I think) with really big names that I read about 6 years ago in a library three or four thousand miles away. Ummmm, Oh... ya, there is also my namesake, just type in Onasander on the net.... if you can read Russian, their is a translation of it on the net (I know some of you can).

I'm sure units from far flug geographical locations meating would of been able to tell the differance, that's why I brought it up. Also, during the American civil war, not everyone was dressed in Blue and Grey, the uniforms differed greatly among various companies. Mercanaries fighting with romans would have been quite distictive, and if everything was the same, the quality of the uniform would of been a bit more ragged for the romans (I know they wore cloth under that armor, thier ruck sacks sucked, not to mention all that armor, auhhh.

I may very well be wrong, but didn't they convert because the Jews got kicked out of Byzantium and fled to the region? I read that it was the major reason for the halt of Islam into Russia, allowing Christianity to emerge there..... a kinda religious buffer state.

As well as the Roman-Trojan story....kinda. A little brainstoriming here: Are their any tell-tale socio-historical or archiological signals that allows someone to to judge if an ancient race/culture willing or unwillingly accepts the culture of another. For being conquered within literate societies. the exsistance of monuments or inscriptions would be a dead giveaway. Money, both Greek in Etruscan lands as well as Vice Versa, would be another example. A change in religion but not one in culture, or again, vice versa, keeping the old religion by changing the economy, can be another signal they willingly adopted the hellenizing influence. I really think we are looking in the wrong place for the Etruscan origins, the Etruscans might not be Hellenic Refugees, but rather, seasonal invaders of Greek or Macedonian lands during the Greek dark ages. Thier written language may very well be what was then the court (or religious) language of a few frienge barbarian groups who learned to write centuries before by the Ancient Greeks, and never properly synthitized the letters with thier spoken tongue. I highly doubt they took thier knowledge of writting directly from the greeks. Really, does anyone else find it unusual that a urbanized society could so easily arise in one of the most invasion prone areas of the earth.... while maintaining it's tribal city-state structure and culture? That's my guess, a weak confederacy defensively that occasionally attacked wealth neighboring states when thier ability to strike was weak, taking back home knowldge as well as plunder. The Roman meantality was exactly the same as theirs, cept they had to be much more agressive in it's execution since their was more of Etruscan than Roman in the world, and was able to codify this urgency into thier national character in thier earliest days. The roman knack for architecture as well as warfare would be a perfect example of this; urgency and adaptability.

President Ulysses Grant (America) granddaughter married Prince Michael Cantacuzene. http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/pal2-06.htm (There used to be a website with pictures of Leo VI Art of War "Tatika" on it (it's seems similar to Bellifortis, more picture than text from what I've seen of it), it had a black background to the page. There was a link to his frontpage from there, which was purple, claimed to be a decendant of Michael VIII (Paleologue). It's the only one I can remember with any picture for a picture search, the computer I'm using is all weird, this whole forum looks like a poka-dot negative (I can't even read my signature!). Ya, also, the Byzantine Royals went on to rule parts of Italy and I think even Poland and Prussia. A good many of them are still around today. I'm going to track one down so he can make me the Duke of Hazards. (I used to work with a Sforza (my best friend back home), she thought she was a princess when I first met her! Wonder if she is related to the Byzantine ruling families)?

Damn, they had way to much time on thier hands to think up such things, didn't they have hobbies back then?

My buddy showed it to me the other day, you can see my barracks in Ft. Richardson, but not the old deactivated nike missle silos. Someone, pick a ancient site (from books or manuscripts) in the desert and let's all track down a lost roman settlement!

It's pretty hard to recover from being totally wiped out, though there are still families who claim descent from Byzantine Royal bloodlines even today, a few even have websites!

You are lucky, you get to write about the world today. Soviet Union collapsed, Ice cap is melting, America is romping, let's not forget me.... what more can you ask for?

Gathering together a couple of books on early christian monasticism to do a few new topics in the religion forums, should I focus on the structure of the religious settlements, the architecture, the interplay between christian sects and pagans, or the way they lived by? Should my focus for discussions revolve around men like Anthony, Arsenio, and Origien, or the communities themselves? How to approach this area in depth and force while keeping people interested? Such an area of high diversity that can easily rival the military threads on this site, but if done wrong, which would be really easy to do, can quickly kill all intrest in similar discussions cause it's not nearly as flashy, and might come off a little zealous. This wouldn't work well since half the people on this site are pagans, and despite working with INSKON and Taoist in discussions before, I'm a bit worried people might view this negatively as a attempt to evangilicize. Strange, I rarely see anyone posting more than a passing referance to the old Roman cults and religions. Not even a essay on Epicurianism! Nobody goes indepth, and I myself am afriad with my great ignorance of many works left unread to make broad statements on theology, but it is of intrest to me. Mabey to others as well.

A troubled individual wishing only to be unknown for his past involvement in failing in trying to save the emperor from a upsurper, then learning, as Jean Claude Van Damn does in most every movie, that the repemption of my soul will come only through vengence via lots and lots of kicking.

The most important find was the rim and handle of a classic Italian wine amphora, which came from Naples and belonged to the late first century B.C. The amphora, which was used to transport wine and olive oil, had been identified from a number of Roman sites in India, including Arikamedu and Alagankulam in Tamil Nadu. http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/03/28/stories...32800080200.htm

Ummmm, after much thought and reflection, I would have to say the Siege of Mehmed II was the most disasterous for the Byzantines.... think about it.

Okay, I'll start by hitting roman topics that arn't covered very much in the forums to lay the foundations for diversity in discussions in the future, like on Architecture, the actual theory of Poliocretics and Art of War (as opposed to histories of campaigns and this or that general), and a few obsure books on Philosophy. I think the first one will be on the Penguin Classics translation of Vitae Patrum, Book 5 "The Desert Fathers". I've already read it, just gotta sit down and write it now.

What about the region? African legions would differ undergarment wise in comparison to troops in Pyreenes, just as American troops from Alaska wear noticably different shirts under their BDU Jacket during the winter over troops stationed in Georgia.

State didn't wanna take responsibility for the widows, I'm guessing.

Modeling?

yeah, I used the vacation while up in Fairbanks in September.... you can't do that with a plant.

This site is the equivalent of a plant to me, I can't have one cause it would die from lack of care when I'm away on training missions. I just check in everyday that I can and see how it is doing. If I join a region, will I have to roleplay? I don't wanna roleplay or be invaded,even though I have space weapons, nukes, and a army reared for war since infancy as well as a large, intelligent, satisfied population and could easily squash anything you guys have if I wanted to. I'll join, but won't get to involved in the region.

Harmon King, from Holiday's Cove, Virginia(Weirton, West Virginia, my town back home), lead the attack on the Mingo village near modern Toronto, Ohio. I beleive Chief Logan was adventually killed by havinf his stomach cut with a piece of his intestine hanging out, then it was nailed to a tree and he was forced to run laps around it till he bled to death with his bowels ripped out. The town of Holiday Cove by all indications was built near a old mingo village (the Red Rider football stadium/steel mill now covers it) and possesed at most four forts, used during Indian sieges... one of wich was stone and used as a house or storehouse.... I can't remember which. The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio has a room dedicated to Chief Logan at Fort Steuben, the fort lasted for 9 months as the first outpost of the US Government across the Ohio used in mapping out the seven ranges. I was priviledged enough to be allowed to dig there as a kid when the professor would have his summer classes.

Charlemagne? I think they respect him more than the west respects Charlemagne, Charlemagne isn't on any icons.

Could married men become legionaries?

How adept were Romans with handling birds in the military and in hunting?

I'm not expected to pay taxes now, am I?