'Bring On The Night'
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."
The Greeks are like soccer, and the Romans are like American football.
Bwah! Yes, though I'd have said that the Greeks are a bit more like rugby, while the Romans were cricket test-match. YClassicalSportsMetaphorsMV.
Septimus Severus! The only black emperor! If anyone was going to be the shizznit, it'd be him, I think.
Was't Septimus Severus the name of the suicidal soldier in Mrs. Dalloway?
I would feel a lot smarter about invoking Woolf if I had any idea whether I'm right or not.
Septimus Harding was a character in Trollope's Barsetshire novels.
Just to tie in with the earlier conversation in the movie thread.
Septimus is also the romantic hero of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
Can anybody name 12 Caesars in order?
My guess off the top of my head was Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vitellius, Galba, Otho, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. I didn't quite get the year of the four emperors in the right order, though.
Who can name the 5 Good Emperors?
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius. Leaving aside Marcus Aurelius' co-ruler Lucius Verus.
I love it! I'm having Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, Roman emperor, baked beans, Roman emperor and Roman emperor!
Trajan, people, Trajan. Who was Spanish, and thus the first non-Italian emperor.
Correction: his family was still Italian, originally from Umbria. They'd just settled in Spain. The first non-Italian emperor, IIRC, was Phillip the Arab, though Elagabalus had had a Syrian mother. But I could be wrong.
You know, I am surprised this list of emperors did not include a single penguin. Billytea, I hardly know you.
You know, I am surprised this list of emperors did not include a single penguin. Billytea, I hardly know you.
What, I can't have layers? In the words of Bucky Katt, "I've got nipples, you know. They don't work, but I've got 'em."
Trajan's the shizznit!
I love this board.
With a mad passionate kind of love.
Sadly reading Vergil's Aeneid in high school forever stigmatized learning about Roman History for me. Though if there had been visual aids of the James Purefoy showing the Full Monty variety back then, I might have overcome the stigma...
Science Fiction Weekly interview with George R.R. Martin.
Apparently, A Feast for Crows is the topselling Science Fiction/Fantasy book on Amazon - or was on November 4th. I went to the library and cleared up my fines in anticipation of it - I'm 4th on the waiting list for the book.