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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 02:10 PM Original message |
Attn: History buffs.......Are there any comparative parallels in Roman history..... |
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Frosty1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. Nero Fiddled while Rome burned? |
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Tom Rinaldo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. This quote blew me away when I first heard it. |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 02:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Wow.....that is a scary but true statement. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 02:40 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I've heard that the great civilizations generally have a life span of around 200 years. |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 03:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I've never been able to find anything that backs up the 200 years thing |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 04:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. It's pretty much bogus. "Democracies last 200 years?" Well, how would we know? |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. i found tons of them in a |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yes and no. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 05:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Wow. This is good. Thanks for the education. You have a much deeper understanding |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 07:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. "Kyrie" will do fine, thank you |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 08:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Well, 12 years of Catholic schools taught me SOMETHING -didn't have to look that one up! nt |
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Tellurian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. Sure, I can equate whats happening now to the twins Romulus and Remus.. |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 04:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. That's just ridiculously convoluted. |
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rufus dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 07:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. are you referring to the statement or the person? |
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JohnLocke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 05:05 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. You're joking, right? |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 08:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. OT -- That was a FASCINATING story about the cave! Thanks! nt |
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Tellurian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-26-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #20 |
29. I thought it was a timely event...considering! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. The last century of the Roman Republic. Bush is Sulla. |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 08:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. sulla? |
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Catchawave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
15. Lead ? Roman aquaduct system v. Chinese toys ? |
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AlertLurker (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. I don't know about ROMAN history, but... |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 08:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Iraq does have some parallels to the Sicilian Expedition, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 09:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. To be fair to Athens a lot of working class and merchant class people didn't mind the Delian League. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. The Pelponnesian War is interesting. It was pretty much a Greece-wide class war... |
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AlertLurker (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 09:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Pretty much applies to all residents (male OR female) of Lesbos, I'd say. |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-26-07 12:16 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Yeah, "Lesbian" was a polite allusion to "Sapphic," |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
24. Only if you extend "Roman" to include 1920s-1930s Italy |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
26. The declining Roman Empire relied a lot on merceneries to fight their wars? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-25-07 10:55 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. A better comarison IMO is to leaders of the late republic with their own personal armies. |
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