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Nessus posted:This is one of the little thingies you see on the outside of Official Scrolls and poo poo in drawings of ancient times, right? Like corn cob holders.
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Deteriorata posted:There's been lots of them found in Egypt, and they're all about this size: I had no idea urethral sounds were made so early!
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mycomancy posted:I had no idea urethral sounds were made so early!
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Does anyone else have really fond memories of the Disney Hercules tv show? I don't want to rewatch it and poison the nostalgia, but holy gently caress I remember it being too clever for what it was. Hercules going to high school and his best friends were Icarus and Kassandra. It was so stupid it looped back to good.
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that's only slightly less accurate than nassim taleb's writing about phoenicians
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Does anyone else have really fond memories of the Disney Hercules tv show? I don't want to rewatch it and poison the nostalgia, but holy gently caress I remember it being too clever for what it was. Hercules going to high school and his best friends were Icarus and Kassandra. It was so stupid it looped back to good. I remember it was alright, but I've never gone and revisited it. It was nice to get some more use out of all the designs they came up with after the movie was kinda weirdly paced and ended up underperforming (when they were comparing it to Aladdin and Lion King, because the movie industry is all about being a failure if you don't make all the money at once).
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I really liked it too. I remember there was one where Hercules was trying to stay up all night to study and Morpheus kept being like "hey bro you know you want to sleep!!!"
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Jazerus posted:the hercules extended universe was fun even if meg and hades were the only really good parts of the film Hades was so good that I actively ignore everything his voice actor says and does because he gives it his all basically every time the character is used and it's delightful even as the man behind the character is a piece of poo poo.
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Man this proto-CK2 game got weird fast. Then again, there were real, documented Viking trips up the Guadalquivir right into the middle of Andalucia. They even caused the Muslim rulers at the time to increase their river defenses to avoid being sacked. So reality can also get a tad weird sometimes.
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Don Gato posted:Hades was so good that I actively ignore everything his voice actor says and does because he gives it his all basically every time the character is used and it's delightful even as the man behind the character is a piece of poo poo. That is the point of acting yeah. I wonder who the first playwright in Greece was that got rid of masks
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euphronius posted:That is the point of acting yeah. i bet they gave you a bit of security when you're performing the latest Aristophanes and had to point at some pillar of the community everyone knows sitting in the front row and deliver a one-liner about how he's getting hosed by his boyfriend
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The Hercules cartoon had all kinds of deep cuts, it does seem like they were having a lot of fun with it.
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Interesting integration of ancient architecture into modern buildings. https://twitter.com/archaeologyart/status/1382053497231790092
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There's a really cool bistro in Istanbul that incorporates some of the oldest architecture in the city into its design. 4th century, apparently it was on the old waterfront and was part of the harbor https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g293974-d8051522-Reviews-Arch_Bistro-Istanbul.html Cool place. That arch is the oldest thing I've ever eaten under
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CrypticFox posted:Interesting integration of ancient architecture into modern buildings. Just visited Split. The entire old city is inhabited and there’s apartments and stores everywhere in the palace. Even a record shop. Sheesh.
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Crab Dad posted:Just visited Split. The entire old city is inhabited and there’s apartments and stores everywhere in the palace. Even a record shop. Sheesh. truly ancient history
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ChubbyChecker posted:truly ancient history Yeah I was curious who the hell is buying CDs still.
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   The tower is made on the bones of the main entrance to the palace proper. The view is from the top. The first picture is just a street view.
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Crab Dad posted:Yeah I was curious who the hell is buying CDs still. Nobody but plenty of people are buying vinyl records.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Nobody but plenty of people are buying vinyl records. I looked in and it was mostly CD's. Even in Reijka there's a record shop proudly displaying new CD's. It's weird.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Nobody but plenty of people are buying vinyl records. Plenty of people are buying used CDs for cheap now.
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Love the pipes on the outside of the stone wall houses Stone walls own but not really all that convenient for modern life Also you can already see the street rising avoid the level of the buildings which is cool
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So I just watched the HBO show Rome, and I was wondering if there was anything else like it out there, either in book or show form? I did see Spartacus and didn't care much for it, except the prequel season which was decent. Plebs was fun as hell too, but I had to DEFINITELY LEGALLY download it since it's not streamable anywhere outside the UK. I've always had a thing for republican/early imperial Rome so any books/shows/the like y'all could recommend would be awesome.
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Nuclear War posted:So I just watched the HBO show Rome, and I was wondering if there was anything else like it out there, either in book or show form? If you're looking for an entertaining book (series) about roughly the same era try First Man in Rome by McCullough.
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Cessna posted:If you're looking for an entertaining book (series) about roughly the same era try First Man in Rome by McCullough. Can confirm, the books are an intimidating size/page count but very accessible
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Nuclear War posted:So I just watched the HBO show Rome, and I was wondering if there was anything else like it out there, either in book or show form? I did see Spartacus and didn't care much for it, except the prequel season which was decent. Plebs was fun as hell too, but I had to DEFINITELY LEGALLY download it since it's not streamable anywhere outside the UK. I've always had a thing for republican/early imperial Rome so any books/shows/the like y'all could recommend would be awesome. The BBC’s I, Claudius is the 70s version of Rome. Not to be missed, although it’s even worse about “drat, there sure are 100,000 people just offscreen” than Rome is
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There's that german show on netflix where the germans speak modern high german and the romans yell at everyone in
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There's that german show on netflix where the germans speak modern high german and the romans yell at everyone in its decent. it plays more with history than Rome did, though it does not alter any actual events, just backstories and relationships and such. Varrus is Arminius' adoptive father in the series for instance.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There's that german show on netflix where the germans speak modern high german and the romans yell at everyone in Isn't Italian just the modern version of vulgar latin?
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Mr. Nice! posted:Isn't Italian just the modern version of vulgar latin? All Romance languages are modern versions of Vulgar Latin
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Just looking at the Trier bruecke and its uh . . . been rebuilt.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Can confirm, the books are an intimidating size/page count but very accessible Thirding this series (Masters of Rome.) The first half takes in the Marius/Sulla stuff that preceded and enabled Caesar and the back half covers roughly the same period as HBO Rome. It owns.
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skasion posted:All Romance languages are modern versions of Vulgar Latin Isn't Romanian the closest?
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F4rt5 posted:Isn't Romanian the closest? Depends what precisely you are looking for closeness to, I guess. Maybe if we knew what the Vulgar Latin of early third century Dacia had been like, we could assess the similarity of Romanian to that. But the various Italian languages are closer to Classical Latin than anything else that I’m aware of.
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skasion posted:Depends what precisely you are looking for closeness to, I guess. Maybe if we knew what the Vulgar Latin of early third century Dacia had been like, we could assess the similarity of Romanian to that. But the various Italian languages are closer to Classical Latin than anything else that I’m aware of. I think I've heard that Sardinian specifically is the closest, which would make sense. I think it's similar to how Icelandic is the most conservative of the languages derived from Old Norse: isolated Island communities are sometimes really conservative linguistically. Also fo good Roman media, I absolutely love the Marcus Didius Falco mystery books; they're set during the Flavians and have a few modern sensibilities but they're great fun for fans of Roman history. Her sequel series, the Flavia Alba books, is ongoing now and also fantastic.
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