pompeius magnus

OH NO! not another soccer thread, when will you silly Europeans and former colonies, not including the my great and well run nation( a little sarcasism in the last part), realize that soccer is not a sport and start playing real football American football. Go Hawkeyes and Packers. I feel I have just opened up Pandoras Box. Good day all

Black Friday, thats a new one to me, makes a lot of sense though as I used to work in retail and that day is like hell has taken over for one day. Thanksgiving means a whole week off of school, which is great but makes no sense cause we come back all relaxed, have two weeks of classes and then finals.

OH I know people are not bashing the brillant numbering system of the Romans. Its quite logical once you get the main rules of it done. Such as how the genitive case is used in conjunction with the number system. Heres an example: duorum virorum- two out of the men. Its really quite a creative system with that example being applied to all the Roman numbers it works really well. Heres another one: XIV- ten and one from five or 14.

Be careful on your thoughts towards the importance of slavery, or how big an issue it was to the Romans. Roman and Greek society were very different in this respect. Slavery was never much of an issue to the Romans, often times, especially in the early to mid republic the farm hands were all those not classified as patricians.

Campbell just out of curiosity, where in Scotland did your ancestors hail from. I am a fellow Scot by bloodline and am from the McKay clan of northwestern Scotland.

While Illinois-Chicago is a good school for ancient history, if you want the best education on ancient history the place to be in the University of Michigan. They have many ancient historians there as professors and have the only phd in Greek and Roman history in the country. Im afraid it is expensive and also hard to get into.

A lot of the Phalanx success depended on terrain, if it was in an open field the advantage went to the Phalanx, even though the legions were able to move around more easily. If it was in a wooded area the phalanx was useless which was what happened in several battles during the second macedonian war. I myself am a firm believer in the Legions, but the way the cavalry was used would be a major varaible in the outcome. The Legion was better equipped to turn and face an attack from the back.

As great as he was in the military field when it came to the political arena, Scipio was clueless.

The best advice I have for you Zeke is to use the ancient sources but to take them with a grain of salt and as in any primary source you need to be skeptical and try to break them down and think about who wrote it, who the intended reader was, why they wrote. A lot of these questions will help you determine chatacteristics of the primary source such as how biased it was, or how much of it you can believe as being credible. My fav. ancient historians being Livy and Thucydides tended to be biased and the speeches they used in the text were often the political beliefs of the historian put into the text as being said by say Fabius Maximus or in the Thucydides example Pericles. Hopefully this helps you.

Being the native American that I am I will have to give Magnus to Eisenhower for his execution of the European Theatre of WWII and also doing his best to keep Patton from killing Montgomery. As far as other people deserving of Magnus would be Einstein, Mother Theresa for humanitarianism.

My favorite ancient historian would be Livy although some dont consider him a historian he took incomplete information and made one of the most dramatic and well written ancient texts. Modern historian would be a toss up between TJ Cornell with his amazing book Ancient Rome of which I did a review for on this web site, and also Steven Pressfield for his masterfull job in the Gates of Fire.

I also do Latin Translation seeing its my major in my blog entitled the Rostra.

Id be inclined to say yes, as the Romans did love their wine and food, especially at festivals. This can be seen also in the naming of a room as a Vomitorium, with the Roman festival cuisine though vomiting would not have been too hard to do as they dined on seafood.

that quote sounds familar but i cant put my finger on who said can you supply it for me please.

The Romans showed everyone how oration should be done and thus gave to us Cicero. Also Roman Literature such as the writing of Ovid, Virgil, Catullus, and my personal favorite Martius.

Let him be forgiven by words.

You can say both, but to a Roman the first one would be bad latin. The second one has the correct word order with est being a third person verb going before the infinitive which should come last in the phrase.

I believe it would go Even without law knowlege is punishment.

This is very tricky. I think there may be some missing words as you have adjectives modifying adjectives so it grammatically does not make sense but a rough translation would be Never are younger people alone than with alone people. It sounds off but thats the best I can do with it right now.

I think that the general crusades were its biggest loss, and the great schism had a great effect on the feelings towards the Greeks in the East from the Latin West.

Did not later Christian doctrine towards end of Roman West, maybe off on date as this is not my area of expertise, condone religious wars I want to say through the writings of Augustine as long as they were for a Christian cause. So the Crusades were verified as such.

Ursus Im not trying to be critical but your first quote listed way above translated as Carthage must, or is to be, destroyed claimed to have been said by Cato the Elder is not a Roman Quote but a Rennassaince one from a German scholar that has been mistaken for one for a long time.

It is true according to my rough theory that Christianity was a primary cause of the fall of Roman West, but Jesus is not to blame, If you can put the blame on anybody it is these men: Constantine: by being baptised on his death bed he became the first Roman emperor to accept Christianity Theodoscius: his doctrines made Christianity legal and the official religion of the Roman empire And, not related to Christianity in this way, the emperor Valens whos carelessness was a major reason adrianople went the way it did and that led to the invasion of Rome several years later.