Book ,'Objects In Space'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Who can name the 5 Good Emperors?
[shameful admission for an erstwhile classical archaeologist] I never liked the Romans. I find them boring, even the raunchy craxxy ones. The Greeks are like soccer, and the Romans are like American football. [/heresy]
Bloody Caesar
Caesar Salad?
My Roman knowledge was exclusively gained by reading Asterix and Obelix books. There was more than one Caesar?
Who can name the 5 Good Emperors?
Marcus Aurelius! Uh...Hadrian? Hmmmm. Tofuttus? Something with a "T."
Something with a "T."
Tiberius? Tacitus?
Tiberius was actually quite a competent emperor, but his private life didn't bear close examination.
Yeah, Suetonius is a barrel of laughs, but not so much with the information on everyday Roman life.
Tofuttus. . he converted to vegetarianism and founded many organic cooperatives, right?
I never liked the Romans. I find them boring, even the raunchy craxxy ones.
Well most of the ones in HBO's ROME are pretty freaking hot. And tormented. So that helps with the fascination.
Bwing out Bwian!
Well most of the ones in HBO's ROME are pretty freaking hot. And tormented. So that helps with the fascination.
Yes, this. Plus, with all the Brit actors in it, everytime we watch an episode, Pete's accent gets stronger.
Trajan, people, Trajan. Who was Spanish, and thus the first non-Italian emperor.
(Tacitus was an historian, he wrote Germania, which should be subtitled, "How people from other places are weird, and Germany is dark and gloomy and barbarous, and arent' we lucky to have the Italian Riviera?")