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Roman soldier's life unfurls: Princeton grad helps bring ancient writings to light
The Cincinnati Enquirer ^
| Monday, January 26, 2004
| Sue Kiesewetter
Posted on 01/26/2004 12:59:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"In a poignant, final paragraph, the soldier asks his father, 'Why on earth did you name me Tiberianus'?"
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:03:31 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Hey, it's not rocket surgery!)
To: martin_fierro
No gladiator photos please. :)
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:05:26 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Come see the violence inherent in the system!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Time to revive an old tagline.
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:08:15 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Please direct all Quality Control complaints to Tijeras_Slim)
To: nickcarraway
Interesting! It would be great to see an exhibit on this and other finds from that region and period.
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01/26/2004 1:08:22 PM PST
by
livius
To: nickcarraway
What an interesting find. I have helped to interpret fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Israel) (90% of them are civil documents (marriage, divorce, birth, death, census, etc, some personal, some Biblical, etc.) Many Archaelogists have pieced together the daily lives of the sect that lived at the scriptorium at Qumran (no, they were not monks!) One of my conclusions was that life moved a whole lot slower then--wars took years of preparation and everyone knew when they were coming. I hope this student finishes the project--it helps to understand history if one has a fundamental understanding of how ordinary people lived.
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01/26/2004 1:08:53 PM PST
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: Tijeras_Slim
No gladiator photos please. :) Okay-fine. But it appears from this new research that some of the legions were better equipped than some scholars had previously believed.
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01/26/2004 1:10:08 PM PST
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: nickcarraway
It would be pretty cool if there were any references of a man from Israel who healed the sick, challenged the secular and religious leadership and spoke of eternal salvation.
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01/26/2004 1:10:49 PM PST
by
tang-soo
To: archy
That looks like fun.
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01/26/2004 1:16:54 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Come see the violence inherent in the system!)
To: nickcarraway
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur"
(anything said in Latin sounds profound)
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:17:15 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(Freedom isn't Free! Support those who ensure it.)
To: nickcarraway
In a way, I envy this kid. Sometimes I wish I had a year or two of college back to really buck up and do some serious studying. I only had maybe two or three semesters of college that I really took seriously and really tried to devour my classwork. But most of the time the only "papyrus" I was studying was the one that told you where all the happy hours were in town.
To: nickcarraway
I want to read the parts where Tiberianus skewers the liberals and peace protestors and hears the lamentations of their women.
To: nickcarraway
In another letter, he asks for boots and socks to keep his feet warm during a cold winter. And he tells how he must violently put down those who revolt and riot in Alexandria. Alexandria quagmire.
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01/26/2004 1:25:55 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Dean's problem is that he's upset that someone stole his strawberries.)
To: richardtavor
One of my conclusions was that life moved a whole lot slower then--wars took years of preparation and everyone knew when they were coming. That's interesting. I would have guessed just the opposite, that in those days all you had to do to go to war was put down your scythe and hoe and pick your spear and sword and you were in business. In contrast, when we were preparing for the first Gulf War, the military spent the better part of a year prepositioning all the tanks and other weapons and supplies.
Now that I think about it I remember cases where it took years for to prepare for wars in antiquity too. I remember readinging once that an ancient king in Iraq once spent something like five or ten years digging a canal connecting the Tigris and Euphrates. Then when he was done, his army sailed down the canal and attacked the cities on the other river. The Vikings, I remember too, when they attacked coastal cities in Britain and Europe would show up out of the fog one morning with as many as 800 ships.
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01/26/2004 1:27:50 PM PST
by
Benjo
To: SwinneySwitch
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" (anything said in Latin sounds profound)
Vescere bracis meis.
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01/26/2004 1:29:39 PM PST
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: nickcarraway
Romanes eunt domus
;^)
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01/26/2004 1:30:40 PM PST
by
js1138
To: archy
OUTDAMNSTANDING PIC!
Semper Fi,
To: archy
The thing that strikes me is that it sounds like a letter a GI would write home to his father today....
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:32:53 PM PST
by
Renfield
To: msdrby
ping
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:33:07 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Then, Opportunity sends to Spirit, "Don't make me come around Mars to smack you")
To: archy
OOOO, I'd like one too please.
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posted on
01/26/2004 1:48:00 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(Then, Opportunity sends to Spirit, "Don't make me come around Mars to smack you")
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