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  1. WI Rome split into a Mithraist West and a Christian East

    The Cult of Mithras was an exclusionary secret society more akin to the Freemasons today. Everyone knew they were there, but you had to be invited in. It does sound cool, with its masks, robes, hierarchy of membership, secret rings and handshakes, but these are all designed to keep people out...

  2. Could Cleopatra have made a deal with Octavian?

    Mithridates daughters and remaining wives were put on display in Pompeys Triumph of 61bc at the end of the 3rd Mithridatic War along with a large cadre of "Amazons" from his forays into the Caucusus. Its vague what happened to them but Adrienne Mayor theorises that they were sent home along with...

  3. Europe without Christianity

    The sausage thing is a local saying that was not of disinterest, but disillusionment. Like "Dont meeting your heros". I am continually fascinated by Rome and Christianity, but cannot see either as faultless or ordained from heaven given how messy both were coming into being. I have a lot of...

  4. Europe without Christianity

    One of the reasons the Patricians came after the Gracchi was that they were advised by a Stoic philosopher called Blossius of Cumae who was later killed by the Romans when he led an anti-Slavery uprising in Anatolia. Its hard to say they encouraged Stoicism when they saw it as a threat in the...

  5. Europe without Christianity

    The ultimate test is if you know how the Greeks conducted relations. I believe you have mistaken my use of Proscription for Proletariat. I used Pleb previously in some of my comments, so I am unsure what you are trying to infer. The Proscriptions were lists of people to be tried and executed as...

  6. Europe without Christianity

    I was referring to Roman interpretation of relationships, those who give and those who take. The Romans looked down on those who take and preferred a dominant position so it was a matter of embarrassment that Caesar was the submissive, not who he had a relationship with. Maiestas laws were not...

  7. Europe without Christianity

    Are you aware Julius Caesar used to be called the Queen of Bithynia by the plebs and the Roman Senators because he took it up the ass from King Nikomedes the 4th of Bithynia when a young man? The best way to skewer a dictator is to remember they are only human. You have no idea how many people...

  8. Europe without Christianity

    I am sorry, but I skimmed what you wrote as most of it has barely any relevance to the current argument and seemed to be an aimless rant. As such I will select what I can be bothered to correct. This section, however is laughable. Are you even aware that Rome's conquests began with drafted...

  9. Europe without Christianity

    The Romans were incredibly superstitious, culturally. They were practising rituals known as the Evocatio and Devocatio to curse besieged cities temples and holy grounds before they were sacked and ritually kidnapped their patron gods so their Legionnaires wouldn't worry about trashing foreign...

  10. AHC: Rome without slavery

    Those revolts wouldn't change much honestly. The first 2 servile wars were easily isolated in Sicily and headed by slaves who had resorted to banditry, piracy and some cultists of the dread matriarch Atargatis. The reason they got so bad was that the Romans left the slaves "free range" and had...

  11. AHC: Rome without slavery

    The Romans and many ancient states were inextricably wedded to slavery, unfortunately. The only instance I can think of besides the Achaemenids dislike of slavery was the Sun Citizens rebellion in Pergamon. A popular antislavery revolt against the Roman Republics deprivations on a peacefully...

  12. AHC: Design an early medieval religion that will most aid human progress

    Look into Zoroastrianism for that. They believed decay and disease were demons and wore mouth coverings around the dead (and the holy fires) to prevent the demons of decay entering living bodies (or their living breath corrupting the holy fires) when bringing the dead to their isolated...

  13. How bad was Caligula?

    Thanks. Couldn't remember his name and can't find my books to look up the incident.

  14. How bad was Caligula?

    There was a similar incident that almost cost a flattering patrician his head. Caligula did not have a good history with pointless flatterers. A member of the upper classes tried his luck and was expounding on how godlike Caligula was. Caligula, ever the sarcastic rapscallion, told his audience...

  15. How bad was Caligula?

    If so, why are you more inclined to take it at face value than anything said about the other Imperial rulers? In being so willing to dismiss the slander of Nero you leave it as open to suspicion. Nero was just as good and bad, but an administration had crept up around the Imperial position that...

  16. How bad was Caligula?

    You are brushing over the context of why Caligula acted as he did. Taking every comment at face value and not exploring why someone would have said them leads to bland acceptance. People here have talked about Tiberius having fiscal responsibility rather than the fact he was a paranoid and cruel...

  17. Origins of Sentinelese?

    He should have brought an Oboe Reading some of Chaus notes it seemed he had more of a death wish than any intent to convert the Sentinelese.

  18. Your Favorite Barbarian Invaders

    Probably the Sea Peoples also. We know next to nothing about them except Bronze Age Mediterranean civilisation just collapsed upon their arrival. Cause, symptom or both we may never know. I like a good mystery.

  19. WI Nero doesn't commit suicide.

    People often forget poor Sporus and the horror heaped upon this poor soul. Nero was a sadist and the attempts to excuse him of his brutality gloss over his actions in the creation of his last wife.

  20. Popular misconceptions about pre-modern History

    Normal everyday things like sleep. People assume that the way we live today is the way things have always been, but before electric lighting people slept in 2 shifts often heading to bed when the sun set, waking in the night for an hour or two and then sleeping until morning. The latter rest was...
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