Grand Fromage posted:

Or get a degree in Roman history and everyone will assume it.

I still get friends I've known for like a decade asking me to translate Latin for them and I have to remind them I have never so much as opened a Latin textbook or taken a minute of class.

E: People might be curious how this works. Basically you do your bachelor's in history. When you move on to grad school, there are two paths: classics and history. If you go for classics, every program I've seen requires you to be functional in Latin, Ancient Greek, and two of the four modern languages that classical scholarship is done in: English, French, Italian, or German. History, you don't need to know poo poo about languages.

CommonShore posted:

I'm listening to the history of Byzantium and i love the demes so much

OctaviusBeaver posted:

The History of Byzantium podcast has been slow lately since the host is getting married and also doing his Istanbul documentary. In the mean time I've really been enjoying The History of the Papacy and Beyond the Big Screen (covers historical movies) by Stephen Guerra, The History of England which has a surprisingly large number of characters in common with Byzantium, The History of the Vikings podcast and the In Our Time: History show by the BBC.

Cyrano4747 posted:

HeyGuns sighs as he draws his pike.

Bobby Digital posted:

poo poo really? I read that it was putrefying in the palace.

Arglebargle III posted:

This is really beyond the scope of the thread, but there's a weird and complex nexus of atheism and "islamophobia" which is itself a really hard term to unpack as it involves racism, orientalism, religious strife, political oppression, national identity, immigration, and more. The idea that a guy who is vocal about hating organized religion and a Swede who doesn't like all the new people in town who don't speak the language and an American in Deerborn MI who's heard that they've got Shakira Law some place are all the same is reductive and fairly useless.

fishmech posted:

Is a thagomizer good for breaking a phalanx?

cheetah7071 posted:

I think you mean the youtube channel Historia Civilis

Platystemon posted:

He said “tactics”, not “strategy”.

Silver2195 posted:

Lol, punk rebel ecks is doing that thing he always does in D&D where he pops into a country-specific thread and asks stupid questions about it, but this time the country is the Roman Republic.

cheetah7071 posted:

This is physics not history but everything is moving away from everything else. There is no central point of origin. The space itself is "stretching" rather than galaxies "moving".

The analogy I always found helpful was the surface of a balloon being blow up. The balloon itself is stretching, and there's no point on the surface of the balloon that everything is moving away from.

skasion posted:

The true reason Copernicus was wrong is that you can’t observe anything on the sun because your eyeballs would melt. Checkmate atheists

HEY GUNS posted:

https://i.imgur.com/cNYDBat.mp4

Ynglaur posted:

This was very helpful in explaining this. Thank you.

chitoryu12 posted:

I usually use ligma coal in mine.

chitoryu12 posted:

USUALLY MY BALLS SCHADENBONER

skasion posted:

“musty odor”

FAUXTON posted:

Roman/ancient history: OSHA *Latin for 'would not approve of'* SPQR

HEY GUNS posted:

what does this imply about the transylvanian katana in the dresden schatzkammer...

SlothfulCobra posted:

Rome 3: The Romaning

skasion posted:

Having meaningful last words was a Homeric/heroic thing (which is to say it was very deeply ingrained). Cool guys are supposed to have something to say as they’re going.

Alhazred posted:

Considering that only twenty of seventy emperors died of natural causes, practicing how you might die wasn't that dumb.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

It took me a minute to figure out the punchline and there's a litany of ways that this joke doesn't work.

Silver2195 posted:

Only if you assume a pre-Constantine setting.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

So what you're saying is, the joke is kinda byzantine

cheetah7071 posted:

I mean, sometimes you want photorealism (or as close as you can get) and sometimes you just want art. Like, in modern society, we could easily have the seal of the united states be a photoshopped eagle for ultra-realism, but it's still a stylized drawing.

Arglebargle III posted:

CommonShore posted:

I'd love to know the difference between a "gastropub," "pub," and "tavern." And once you have your answer finalized, we'll reveal that we're discussing it in a particular geographical location different from the one you were assuming.

Grand Fromage posted:

There are reasons. Slings are harder to use than bows and even if you're good with it, they tend to be less accurate. Bows are quicker to shoot if you're practiced. Also, medieval bows and arrows were deadlier than their ancient equivalent. You can't make specialized armor piercing heads or anything like that with a sling. In the ancient world slings and bows had more of a parity, but there's not a ton of technological improvement you can do to a sling compared to what was done with bows.

Dalael posted:

If you click this link (Not a rick roll), it'll bring you straight to the Lupanar one of the most famous brothel in pompeii. This is a pretty nice 4k video so you can clearly see the details of the frescos. There is no mistaking this building for anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUYJ8LbF1Ys&t=5643s

WoodrowSkillson posted:

10 hours of content on the fall of the republic is not really superficial.

Arglebargle III posted:

PittTheElder posted:

All those right angles in the aqueduct feel like interesting decisions.

Fuschia tude posted:

Whoops I thought I posed this before. Uh, enjoy a three-week-old reply I guess: