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hi a couple of days ago I had a bizarre discussion about St-Martin (I know :) ). You know, the one who cut his cloak in two to give it to a beggar. My friend told me that possibly, it wasn't a sign of charity given the fact that his cloak didn't belong to him, but to the roman army. Now I wonder...

count me in, vermits onze video de geest heeft gegeven heb ik augustus niet kunnen opnemen, en ook la meglio gioventu zie ik wel zitten. En vermits ik de vorige -ondertussen legendarische- filmavond bij lupus gemist heb haal ik graag mijn schade in.

Ariadne

Salve I have a question about Roman dining rooms. I believe that a normal triclinium has three couches (lecti), and on each lectus there was room for three people. Roman women were invited to banquets, so I suppose that many couples ate dinner there. How were the places divided. Did husband and w...

I can open the page now, it must have been something with my internet connection, keep on blogging!

ariadne

hi orcus

i tried the link but got a message that the url couldn't be found

ariadne

Gratias Draco, it seems that the TP of antiquity is going to be a project of the two of us.... Daily life 9. What is the Latin name for a bedroom? Cubiculum 10. Which author wrote the most famous roman cookbook? Apicius 11. What happened to the bulla, a kind of amulet on the 16th birthday ...

10 questions on history, about Cicero! 31. What was the name of the brother of Cicero? Quintus Tullius Cicero 32. In which year was Cicero consul? 63 BC 33. Was the oration about Milo in his defence or attacking him? Defence 34. Was Cicero a supporter of Caesar or of Pompeius? Pompeius 35. What ...

Here are a few questions made by Joris, who is still refusing to be a member of SVR, but was so kind of writing some questions History Which lex forms the base of the Roman law? Lex duodecim tabulorum Which Greek king attacked South-Italy in 280 BC? Pyrrhus When was Carthago finally defeated...

salve, First of all, Attice, I read also Hadrian's memoires, but I liked L'oeuvre au noir better. But I admired her knowledge of antiquity, I read an article in which she tells she corrected a little mistake, when someone in the book was counting his money she first wrote that he was piling it up...

I checked my version of Trivial Persiut on questions on antiquity, and I luckily, they have quit a lot: Geography (blue) Who had “megaron” houses The Greek What does “acropolis” mean? City on the mountain top Which palace was discovered by Evans...

when I was searching my avatar, I searched Google on "roman girl, roman woman" , and this was really the only cool picture. Apart from a thousand times the "portrait of Sappho" (you know, a woman holding a stilus in her hand) I found quite a lot links to porn sites, but luckily I found this one. I l...

Is becoming a patrician on SVR a sign of merit eg. by posting lots of messages on the message board, or a privilege for founding fathers? Not that is it a matter of capital importance, but is there a distinction between patrician and plebeian gentes?

salve while reading old recipes it usually strikes me that food had to cook very long. Even in recipes from 60 years ago it was often necessary to let a dish 2 or 3 hour on the fire. I asked my grandfather how this was done, that women had to spend their whole morning by the fire. He said that is...

I didn't mean present games about antiquity, I meant games like they were played in Rome, like tesserae, latrunculi, senet. I also saw that the link in my previous message didn't work, so try the homepage of Wladyslaw Jan Kowalski, http://personal.psu.edu/w/x/wxk116

ariadne

It surprised me that nowbody mentionned the Falernum, the "Bordeaux" of the ancient Rome "In ancient Rome, the preferred wines came from Campania, from the plain area between sea and mountain, crossed by the Volturno River. Because of its unique climate it was called Campania Felix. At that time...

salve I am very fond of board games and I did some research on the internet about roman games. Check out this excellent site: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/roma/rbgames.html I wonder if someone here played one of these games before, are they difficult, are they fun, maybe someone h...

salve everybody it is nice to welcome a couple of fellow-historians. I got my degree in classical history last year, and now I hope to get a Phd-scholarship in history. I'm planning to post a abstract of my Master-thesis on SVR this summer, maybe it's a nice idea for the other historians? vale...

a nice example of love between a master and his slave is the epitaph for allia potestas. This woman was manumitted and married her master, and when she died her husband placed a stele with the following text A Dis Manib(us) Alliae A(uli) l(ibertae) Potestatis B 1 Hic P...

Everyone who is interested in republican rome should read Steven Saylor. This author has written a series of books about Gordianus, a private detective in the first century BC. In this political turmoil, the most important politicians in Rome ask for his assistance in delicate matters. The great thi...

I wonder why women on SVR all have a praenomen, women in roman antiquity only had a family name en cognomen