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Yes, I have also been looking into this new dose of Rome. It seems a little bit strange that they are showing the life of Nero before the life of Caesar. Maybe this will be for dramatic effect; the eccentricities of Nero would probably do a better job of captivating the masses than GJC ever could. Does anybody know of any more notable Romans in the series?

LW incredibly , I found this defunct site with a murex article. http://www.jolique.com/dyes_colorants/purple_passion.htm Yes, very interesting indeed. I do however have a point out a minor point in regards to the article. The article mentions one legend, which credits Helen of Troy as the dye discoverer, who came across it when her dog bit into a sea shell and was coloured purple as a result. Though there is another legend attached to the dye's discovery. According to the 2nd Century sophist, Julius Pollux, is was in fact Heracles' dog which stumbled across the dye.

But still... I don't see how that could be an authentic classroom of the post WWII era in America. I find it very hard to believe any teacher would encourage that type a salute considering the socio-political environment of the time. I'd be willing to bet it was from some B-movie. Regardless, I'm with Cato; it makes me quite uncomfortable. So was I right in saying that the first photo shown on this forum was in fact from the 1950s?

With the expasion of the Empire, rather than being an ethnic race, the Romans became a political one. I think that if you were of Roman citizenship during the Byzantine period, standing for a Roman ideal was viewed as being much more important your ethnic background.

I have found another reference that relates to Roman song: The 5th Century Poet Apollinaris Sidonius tells us via poetry that singers and musicians were often trained at schools: 'From her town between the two seas let Corinth send harping-girls who have learned stage singing and dancing at the warm training-school, and whose musical fingers replacing the pick shall ply the strings that wake to life at their touch, while their tongues sound in harmony.' Hope that was of some use.

Sulla had Felix as one of his cognomina, and he was pretty angry!

It would make sense. Alexander was not the product of Phillip's current marriage. If Phillip were to have another son, Alexander would have lost his place as heir apparent.

Thank you. I think I will go for the former name; he seems to be a more honourable character in comparison to a showy Greek. I had a feeling that Felix would crop up as my Roman cognomina, because my name is fact Felix!

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The topic below may be of use to this discussion. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4000

Did anybody else read this Sunday Times article, in which Jeremy Clarkson expresses his 'indispensable' view on Archaeology. My favourite quote from it being: 'Archeology, as we all know, is simply a tool that enables very stupid people to get into university. Fuse it with media studies and you end up with Tony Robinson.' It's all right though; I have channelled my disgust for him via a letter to his desk: Dear Jeremy, I hope my descendants excavate your grave and spit in it. How can I trust the opinion of a man who cannot even spell the name of the subject he hates so much? Regards Some mentalist

Some Ancient Britons were in fact part of the island's indigenous 'Iron age' tribes, and were of a unique ethnic stock; they just assigned themselves to the Celtic language and, to a certain extent, were influenced by Celtic culture. However, you cannot simply refer to all the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain as being of the of the same ethnic origin. As with any period of the island's history, Britain at this point was a seat of migration. Yes, Iron Age Britain did have aboriginal inhabitant, but many of her tribes

Over the past four days or so I have been suffering from man flu

I made it up to make my article seem tidier. I actually used a variety of websites which discussed Hollywood's inaccuracies.

I think, as established earlier, the author of the site in question has been leading us on. How could the Spartans military practices have survived for that long under the yolk of Roman rule? Maybe the military practices survived as a novelty for tourists visiting the city? I do not know. I cannot seem to find any references to Spartans serving as auxillia; for that reason, I must announce my resignation from this wild goose chase.

Click here for a list of the inscriptions found along Hadrian's wall. If you trawl through them, you may be surprised at just how (dare I say the most condescending statement ever!) 'multi-cultured' they were on the wall. I cannot seem to find it, but I seem to remember there being a very well preserved tombstone of a North Africa auxiliary. The tombstone does appear to promote the idea of multiculturalism among the British frontier because, as well as being written in Latin, Aramaic test is also given so that his Syrian sweetheart can also read it. So a North African, unofficially married to a Syrian woman, both living in Britain; and people thought foreigners in the UK was a new thing. I think this may be the tombstone.

If you would like to have a look at it, click on the link below. You may need to zoom-in in order to decipher it. Oh, and keep in mind that I had a horribly restrictive word count; I could not write as much as I hoped to.

I don't want to get off topic so I'll just post this. If Egypt is part of Africa, then it should be considered part of the East. If it is considered part of the East, then don't refer to it as an African nation. It is one or the other, but to have an African nation and calling it part of the East is by no means logical. If people consider Carthage part of the West, what makes Egypt any different? Simple, its geographical location.

Apologies for writing such falsehoods, but, keep in mind that when I wrote the above statement I genuinely believed it to be true: being too lazy to consult my library

Yes, a coin depicting King Menander I of Bactria (155-130 BC) has been found near Portsmouth--it is thought to have been mislaid around 100 AD--but that does not necessarily mean the Indo-Greeks had trade links with Britain.

From what is left of it on the Palentine, do we actually know the colour scheme of Augustus

Click here and scroll down to the bottom. In the article there is no mention of an author, nor is a bibliography submitted; it is highly likely that the part about Spartan auxillia is a product of the writer's imagination. So we may in fact have been sent on a wild goose chase. Either way, I am still going to scan some more sources.

For my Film Studies coursework I wrote a hypothetical magazine article on whether or not the question historical accuracy actually matters in Hollywood 'Epics'.

I have just read your blog on pigmentation hierarchies: Does this mean that Cinnabar Red was in fact a paint that could have easily been attained by the lower-middle classes? Because when I visited Pompeii about three years ago, I noticed that it was only the grandiose houses that have a dark read interior. The dark black you describe was also popular in the dwellings of the rich because it was a shade that camouflaged the blemishes caused by the smoke emitted from braziers that heated the house.

The site that informed me of these Spartan auxillia units clearly stated that Spartans were enrolled as auxillia by the emperor Lucius Verus for service against the Parthians, and at this point Roman citizenship did not go as far as Greece. Besides, even if Spartans were serving Rome's army after the enfranchisement of the Empire, the majority of military recruits, be they citizen or not, seemed to be joining the auxiliary force. Therefore, Spartans in the legions would have been an unlikely concept. I have not completely given up on finding textual evidence for Spartan auxillia serving Rome, there may be a chance Pausanias mentions it in his Guide to Greece.