I loved that movie:
Posted on 04/06/2017 7:09:40 AM PDT by ZULU
Some of the best historical novels about ancient Rome I have ever read are from Robert Harris. His trilogy on Cicero is fantastic and often very true to the historical record.
https://www.amazon.com/Imperium-Novel-Ancient-Robert-Harris/dp/0743498666
By the way, the audio CDs for each book are wonderfully done. I listened to the third one this summer and found it absolutely gripping: https://www.amazon.com/Dictator-novel-Robert-Harris/dp/0399567852/ref=tmm_abk_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I loved that movie:
This was from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Douglas was great in movies like Ulysses, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Vikings, Spartacus. Like Victor Mature, he had that kind of Ancient Look.
Thanks for those links!
Have to get the audio book. Makes commuting a lot more bearable and that period of history is very interesting. Never read any of these novels. Sound great.
My favorite historical novelists so far are Allen Eckert for his Wilderness Series and Bernard Cornwall for his medieval stuff.
And the enmity between Rome and Carthage was due to Aeneas ditching the Cathagenian queen, Dido, to pursue his destiny -- the founding of Rome.
I think there must have been some connection with Asia Minor and Etruria.
They did genetic studies on Tuscan livestock and their genes indicate connections to Asia Minor. I think genetic studies on Tuscan humans are inconclusive.
It was a great speech. The Latin is better than the English and my translation of the Latin is better than the one I posted. Cicero’s use of the repetitive phrase is very effective and this translation loses it.
I bet she was hot, but not hot enough!
:)
Aeneas may have genuinely loved her, but his sense of duty won out.
Aeneas is a complex character, not a shallow modern.
I had a professor once from Denmark who was in the US on a one-year appointment (he could have stayed longer but his wife didn’t like living here). He thought Catalina Island off the California coast was named for Catiline. I explained to him it was named for St. Catherine.
Livestock tend to stay where you put them.
People do not..................
Douglas was great in movies like Ulysses, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Vikings, Spartacus. Like Victor Mature, he had that kind of Ancient Look.
He STILL DOES!.....................
No...Catalina, California...he just hated that....
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The really interesting one was Cicero’s secretary/slave. If he hadn’t have written down Cicero’s speeches we would know nothing about him.
The Colleen McCullough 6 book series on Caesar are also excellent.
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