FLavius Valerius Constantinus

Why thank you, I thought you'd never would ask. Now, I shall search for a book to read and review. Might take me a month, being a student is kinda hard sometimes.

OOPS, I always confuse Carracalla and Commodus for some reason. I'm very poor in knowledge when it comes to how each emperor died.

True, as it is with all books about the Classics. If you're gonna read REAL BOOKS about Rome, you're gonna need lots of knowledge about Roman culture. Luckily I do, and so when I read those books, its easy to figure out in context.

Oh, I really love how Cicero uses profanity, romours, and lots of slandering his speeches. What a great lawyer he was. Obviously, I dedicate my user name to Imperator Constantinus.

Actually, a lot of historians think the thumbs down were actually to suppose to mean the thumb pointing towards the throat, meaning kill the man. It actually can be anything. For example a closed thumb or fist. Taken from Vroma At this point the crowd would indicate with gestures whether they wished the defeated gladiator to be killed or spared. The popular belief (illustrated in this modern drawing) is that

I can translate latin too, it translates into: He(she or it) was not sufficing from( to; if it is in the dative, meaning indirect object) the ox He was not sufficing to( or from) the ox. (I think you would have to understand this statement figuratively, not literally ANother way of translating: He was not standing up to the ox.( sorry if you take offence, but thats what it says) I think the problem is that I don't think you got all the words. Those three words seem to be in a weird word order and the sentence seems pretty weird for a family crest, so I don't think you've read everything on the crest.

I wonder how you would make a living (give an estimate) as an archeologist. Also if you were one, how would life be? Does it require lots of traveling.

I would want to be the Cato the stone-cold hard@** son of a (female dog) centurion who made life a living hell for new Roman recruits before the Dacian War. Sorry for the profanity, but ever since I watched the History Channel's Special Segment, Rome Week, they made Cato the Centurion(who was a real guy) seem like a modern day drill sergeant in the Marines which is probably a true description of centurions back then. Also, I like to states the a squad of recruits were trained the same way in almost every aspect of modern day squads.

I just want to mention that article talks about a mosaic with Greek words in reference to Jesus Christ. Also a mosaic of a fish. ALso another interesting fact was " a Roman soldier help pay for the mosaics."

Thanks guys for the great info. Oh, also he was stangled by some Greek wrestler I can seem to remember his name.

Hmmm, I love how the Bible is historically accurate sometimes.

Vespasian 82% Trajan 79% Marcus Aurelius 68% Antoninus Pius 64% Augustus 57% Vitellius 54% Claudius 54% Nerva 43% Tiberius 36% Domitian 36% Hadrian 36% Nero 25% Commodus 14% Caligula 11%

Yesterday, the history channel had a special representation on the Crusades and one special emperor was Alexius. Alexius, with the Byzantine Empire dwindling, made or more begged Pope Urban II for aid. Turns out, Alexius was only asking for 500 of the Western's best knights, but rather he got 60,000 total Crusaders at the gates of Constantinople that could storm his city and take it over easily. So how would Alexius solve this problem. Luckily Alexius was in control of food shipments and so blackmailed the Crusade's leaders into loyol obedience with him. He ordered them to reconquer Byzantine land taken by the Turks and so the Crusaders did. Sure Alexius was smart, but what he forgot was when the Crusaders conquered the cities, how would he control them when they had their own resources from the cities conquered. It was a good move, but in the long term a really bad one. I also want to note that Crusades was so full of political dealings and much betrayals and extreme massacres.. Everything was done for wealth and more land and religious zealot was only a false forefront.

I'm a patrician(87%). This is a really retard test.

I wish the article actually told me everything about the Papas life.

Are those words from your recipe book again? And anyways, does anyone know roughly how many times decimation has been used?

Absolutely Stunning,seriously it got me thinking, but I already have read Roman Medicine by John Scarborough though. When I day dream about Rome, I think of Roman legions fight barbarian hordes and reigning supreme.

JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists on Saturday said they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries, and include references to Jesus and images of fish, an ancient Christian symbol. "This is a very ancient structure, maybe the oldest in our area," said Yotam Tepper, the head archaeologist on the dig. full Article at Discovery

I know this forum is really dedicated when posting their long remarks about topics. But yet, I can't seem to tell which direction is the argument going which is why I like polls.

IF Belisarius had become an Ostrogothic leader, I believe he would actually rather become the Western emperor if he made dealings with the Pope, then history as we would know it would make such a loser out of Justinian. Belisarius I project would have become a lasting Christian figurehead for the Western Empire and for all we know, would be so recognized like Julius Caesar is today in our culture. I just believe Belisasrius could have done so much if he had not been backstabbed by that despicable........(so much to find fault with her) witch Theodora.

All I find is a weird picture of Bellona dressed the Patriotic American. I wonder if Ben Franklin had a hand in this

LOL , you should report them to your ISP(the lazy bastards, comcasat has much better mail but with the defect of still spam getting through somehoww)

Sure he conquered them, but history is history, you can't change it. The Bubonic Plague struck, and if Justinian was educated as he was, he would have diverted a lot of time to find solutions to stopping the plague which I don't see much reference to. Anyways, no matter what, the Franks and other Barbarian tribes will alway be that arrogant and rebel and if defeated only to rebel again with another Barbaric tribe leading.

Most Alexanderphiles which there are on this forum would say yes. I personally believe that either Caesar's Romans or Byzantiums Romans would beat the crap out of Alexander. The Legion was meant and perfected to beat a Phalanx. How do you think Rome conquered all of Greece and especially Athens and Sparta.