What is your favorite era and place of history, and why?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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Ask A Historian
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 "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."  RE: Ask A Historian
May 18, 2015 at 4:30 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2015 at 4:31 pm by Minimalist.)
I'd say the period between 218 BC ( start of the Second Punic War ) and 180 AD (death of Marcus Aurelius).
Rome at her peak. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
My all-time fav. As a xmas tradition I watch it every year.
Blessed are the cheesemakers. 
Do you have a favorite Roman emperor?
I think Vespasian.
Some pithy sayings.  RE: Ask A Historian
May 18, 2015 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2015 at 8:31 pm by JuliaL.)
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?
Probably.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(May 18, 2015 at 6:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I think Vespasian. Don't you mean he is your favorite for healing the blind and lame? "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Of course, that's a neat trick. Apparently every Tom, Dick and Harry could do it.
Quote: I don't know if you'd call this sin, but I recently read a(n) historical novel on the personal and political interaction between Claudius and Herod Agrippa. Yeah - I saw "I, Claudius" too. While Claudius and Herod Agrippa doubtless knew each other as boys the random element introduced was Caligula who was 20 years younger than the others but still became friends with Herod Agrippa and was the first to reward him with the territories of his older relatives as they began to die off. Claudius continued the process and under his watch Herod Agrippa had a realm as large as Herod the Great's. One of the great mysteries is why the Romans were always so eager to find some member of the Herodian clan to exercise direct rule over Judaea rather than just use the model which was so effective for them everywhere else. |
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