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During the early hours of this morning, my Grandma passed away peacefully. Thankfully I was taken care of by both my close friends, and a trip to both the pub and subway. Still, this did compensate the fact that the world lost a remarkable woman.

No, I have been assigned to do a project on the subject due in for next term. Sorry, I meant ancient sources, and contemporary inscriptions. Oh, and thank you both for you help.

Does anybody know of any contemporary sources on piracy before 66BC?

If this statement is made tounge-in-cheek, hehe. Yes, I was being facetious, but I do love the smell of pipe smoke.

I think today can be put up there will all the other bad days. As well as suffering from the flu, my safe in my room (containing

If the smoking ban is enforced, many of the bars I go to will, pure and simply, lose their character. I often go to bars crammed with old men smoking pipes because: a) I like the ales; and I love the smell of pipe smoke. The jazz bar that I go to will additionally be affected - how can one enjoy the delights of live jazz without the sight of pretentiously dressed students smoking cheap roll-ups? And what is the point of going to an underground music venue (i.e. punk clubs) without being presented with a vast cloud of smoke? I myself do not smoke (and never intend to for that matter), but smoking just looks right in a lot of places. The whole point of going to a pub is to unintentionally inflict damage onto one's body - alcohol, not tobacco, it more likely to harm anybody in a bar. However, I do agree that smoking in 'child friendly' establishments, as well as in those that serve food, should be discouraged.

Lucius Licinius Lucullus? The 'real' conqueror of Mithridates? He's up there for me too. But as I've said in many threads like this; Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus is the finest in my eyes. He may well have been a good strategist, but he was unable to secure the hearts and minds of his troops; their mutiny against him was an obvious indication of this.

There is evidence to suggest that they re-emerged in the East.

Apparently so.

Don't do it! I had to buy all of these books (and more!), and now I can not afford to go out - the Internet, my friend, is a much cheaper tool.

Tacitus also puts a negative spin on Caesar's British campaigns: 'Julius Caesar, the first Roman to enter Britain with am army did indeed intimidate the natives by a victory and secure a grip on the coast. But he may fairly be said to have drawn attention to the island: it was not his to bequeath.' -Tac. Agricola 13. I think Plutarch gives an account of Caesar's Gallic/German/British campaigns. Does anybody have the text?

It also seems that later writers subsequently used Caesar's work as a source: 'Britain is triangular in shape; and its longest side stretches parallel to Celtica, neither exceeding nor falling short of the length of Celtica; for each of the two lengths is about four thousand three hundred — or four hundred — stadia: the Celtic length that extends from the outlets of the Rhenus as far as those northern ends of the Pyrenees that are near Aquitania, as also the length that extends from Cantium (which is directly opposite the outlets of the Rhenus), the most easterly point of Britain, as far as that westerly end of the island which lies opposite the Aquitanian Pyrenees. This, of course, is the shortest distance from the Pyrenees to the Rhenus, since, as I have already said, the greatest distance is as much as five thousand stadia; yet it is reasonable to suppose that there is a convergence from the parallel position which the river and the mountains occupy with reference to each other,since at the ends where they approach the ocean there is a curve in both of them.' - Strabo Geography IV 5.1 Anyway, back to the topic: are there any other sources on the Gallic War that act as a counterbalance to Caesar's account?

Well I am studying Ancient History at university!

Many of the apparent actualities in Caesar's works are either based on assumptions, or very basic reconnaissance work. For instance, Caesar gives ethnographical accounts

I do not mean to gloat, but where I am, I'm surrounded by Romanophiles, each with their own unique view on History.

Publius Quinctilius Varus.

#1 - The first rule of Fight Club is, you do not talk about Fight Club. #2 - The second rule of Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Fight Club. #3 - If someone says stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. #4 - Two guys to a fight. #5 - One fight at a time. #6 - No shirts, no shoes. #7 - Fights will go on as long as they have to. #8 - If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Finally Science is pulling its wieght!

I caught sight of the graffiti earlier today, and somebody had scribbled below it: Phil Collins' career. 20th Century taking the piss?

Yes, but rather being a reason for its emergence, inclusiveness was more of a reason for the presevation of what Roman imperialism achieved.

I was not really implying that. It merely stated that, due to its possible medieval origins, the statue in question was no longer the symbol of Ancient Rome. But even so, I was a little surprised myself; that wolf crops up in almost every book I own on the Roman world.

Yes, though I am a Romaphile through and through, I am well aware of the fact that student parties are not places to discuss the subject.

Earlier this evening, I saw a rather interesting message spray painted in large letters on a wall. It read the following: 'Archduke Franz Ferdinand found alive. 20th Century a mistake?

Yes, I believe that Roman Imperialism was initially a defensive phenomenon. I do not think that Romanisation/'civilising' was a preset policy. It emerged organically as a result prolonged occupation; cultural dispersal of the ruling elite also happened within other, long-lasting empires (e.g. 'Hellenised’ kingdoms of the East, the British Empire etc.). The Empire itself was not even that inclusive: in the provinces many of the so called 'civitas' established were semi-autonomous and only the settlements' nobility had dealings with Rome; it was only really the colonia that mirrored Rome, and they were already stocked with Roman citizens). Additionally, Rome's apparent 'inclusiveness' arose at a much too slow pace than you imply: stubborn conservative aristocrats dragging their collective heals against Italian enfranchisement resulted in the highly unnecessary Social War; and Roman citizenship was not entitled to all of Rome's subject until the time of Caracalla.

I my opinion, there is another school of thought on the matter. This being the 'Rome's interests must be protected no matter what the human cost' mindset of the Roman senators: if Rome's security or even her remotest interests (e.g. overseas trade) are in the least bit threatened, military or diplomatic intervention must take place. There are indeed many examples of this taking place: the sack of Carthage - the city was seen by some as being too powerful; Rome