FLavius Valerius Constantinus

Link to Full Article NEW YORK When Italian cultural officials faced off in Rome last month with Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they were gambling that they could make headway on a cause that had stymied them for three decades: getting the Met to give up a krater, or vase, by the fifth-century artist Euphronios, which they say was looted from an Etruscan tomb north of Rome. On the face of things, it hardly seemed likely that the Met would suddenly consider returning an object that had been a prized mainstay of its Greek and Roman galleries for so many years. But the Italians had seized on a new strategy: an offer to replace that work - and others they hope to get back from the museum - with loans of equal or similar value. The museum might even be able to hold on to some of the disputed objects as long-term loans, they suggested.

Noo...Superman! Huh, what do you mean by them dying?

Wish you could use technology. Well I think you can refer to technology. You can do an aerial flyby to take pictures to see what perks the land has or use some sort of technology that allows you to see what lies beneath the ground like sonar or some other sort of stuff that geologists might use. Sounds weird, I know.

Barbarian auxiliaries weren't the main problem. It was that there were NO troops guarding the frontiers because they were needed to fight off foreign-sponsored usurpers. I agree, an example of how worse that it can get was when the Huns decided to invaded Rome again for the second time after being beatened at Chalons. The problem with the troops was so bad that Aetius this time could not recruit enough men for an army to fight the Huns. Because of that, who came to save Rome herself. It was Pope Leo the Great who convinced Atila somehow that attacking Rome, God would punish him severely. In Sententia Mea so if Christianity didn't happen, well the Huns would have conquered Rome earlier without Pope Leo.

They were simply Roman officers who had been discharged but had been invited by a consul or general to re-enlist and so they did voluntarily with many benefits. Oh by the way, his name is Vorenus and the Evocati is the term.

In my opinion, I wouldn't say it was inferior technology, more like different fighting styles. The Romans were heavy infantry while the Parthians regarded riding and archery on horseback more important. All it comes down to really is tactics and terrain. Technology doesn't matter much here since the Romans and Parthians are somewhat on the same level, no one is inferior. The only big mistake here was Crassus arrogance and haste for glory that he ignored the advice of the Armenian King that he should use Armenia as a base which would give the Romans a big advantage in choosing where to fight. Also, lest the Romans used a retreat as a tactic, Armenia would be a good backdrop place.

Oh, I always thought he was a slave but not Thracian. Can you give me the sources for the view Spartacus was Roman citizen, I'm quite interested now.

*cough* Ada Wong, femme fatale's are awesome. I like Leon Kennedy. I like Superman when he's "evil."

I remember a really old thread on this before, but for some reason, I can't find it anymore. Oh wells, I might as well introduce myself again. I found UNRV while searching for Julius Caesar like many people. Didn't notice there was a forum at all. I assumed that the "Forum" was actually articles about the actual Forum Romanum. Six months later, I figured about the online forum, but took me another 6 months to join because I was so lazy. When I first looked at the forum, I first noticed the Han China vs. Rome debate. I particularly blame the Discovery and History Channel on luring me into the study of the Roman Empire. They had so many great documentaries on when I was young, and so I was impressed and thus followed the propaganda(that's what I call it. ) Then when I first hit high school, I was given the choice of learning either classical Greek or Latin(because it was a Jesuit school). Latin won out even though I'm going to take Greek next year anyways and the Latin at the same time. So therefore Latin class( and World History class) forced me to learn about the Roman Empire, sometimes by having to read it in Latin too. Somehow, I retained lots of knowledge and resulted into being turned into a Latin geek as I call myself. I also joined the Latin team by the way, we do Certamens which are so fun( Certamen is the w ord for contest in which we are in schools teams and we compete against others to decide who's the best at latin grammar,myths, and the Roman Empire. Its like the Scholastic Bowl.) In my opinion, if this forum was a latin team in some sort of competition, we would be invincible. DOn't you think because we've got so many knowledgable people.

I suppose I confused you with my thoughts. To clarify, I thought Jacquin Phoenix did a great job of portaying Commodus, but I thought that he was acting more like Caligula(well the script made it more that way), i.d. the attempt at a pure bloodline by incest with his lovely sister. Instead of more like a Commodus portrayal, the script and the actor brought out the Caligula insanity instead. Hope I clarify things, bc there was only one time when I confused Commodus and Caligula, I mixed up their deaths.