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.
Can I just say that I second/third/whatever the "I love this board" on the above discussion? Hee. It makes me want to go be knowledgeable about Roman emporers, a subject I had no interest in 20 minutes ago!
There's a great series running currently in Slate on book hunting in Britain. (Make sure you go back and read the Mon. and Tues. entries as well.)
Today the author visits Chatsworth, and the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (aka, the last of the Mitford sisters).
It's plummy and quirky and British and will make you all drool with the book lust.
We move on to the library, the grandest of several in the house, with its gilded ceiling, velvet curtains, and huge cases filled with the jewels of English literature and history. Noble pulls down some of the incunabula, early printed books from the 15th century. A couple of dozen Caxtons and the four Shakespeare folios went to the Huntington Library in California to pay death duties after the eighth duke died in 1908. But what's left is really not bad—the four elephant folios of Audubon's Birds of America, an Aldine of Petrarch made for a Medici princess, and 25 Groliers, which are the most beautiful and famous bindings from the 16th century. Jane Austen firsts are displayed in the famous sculpture room.
