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This should definitely be moved to the ASB Forum.

I agree, but you've got to remember that it's realism over wanking every day! Or...er...that's how it should be. I haven't always abided by that tenet.

I don't think you read the very last sentence of the post. ;)

The evidence that it was ruled by Alexander the Great. Really, it was a Hellenic kingdom, a mix between Persian and Greek. What more is there to say? Alright, there is the fact that Mithridates was an autocrat, and kept his wives locked up, and executed his sons and family members for...

No, Dalmatica is the Pontifex Maximus's daughter and still a tad too young to attend a dinner party. That's Balearica the Vestal and Balearica the upright and honest wife of Appius Claudius Pulcher, quintessential Roman matron; both are sisters of Nepos, and were disgusted with his seduction of...

FOR WANT OF THE HAMMER SULLA IN SPAIN PART 1, 647 AVC Geography, towns, and rivers of Hispania; for reference On the 19th of November the veritable flotilla of Spurius Dellius arrived in Tarraco [50 kilometers south of Barcelona on the map], and the flurry of activity which would...

I've seen you use that word in several threads now, and Google searching only leads back to your AH posts. I'd like to know what it means, please.

They would be neighbors but, as I said, not hostile neighbors. The Armenians had their plate full against the Parthians and Egyptians, and Sarmatian society didn't favor mountains at all. They could be an intermediary...but I'm not sure what that changes. The Sarmatians were always an...

The Aeneid is set about 300 years before Rome's founding. There's nothing about the Founding of Rome in the Aeneid; it's simply about the flight of the Trojans from Ilium to Latium. In fact, the Romans thought that both the Aeneid and the Founding were true.

So the consensus is that Rome was formed of two or more villages that combined for mutual defense? Is it reasonable to have a Senate with one Latina and one Sabine king, and for the differences between the two groups and villages to erode enough so that any citizen can hold any free slot for...

Aha, hahaha, wow; caught a huge continuity error. The Quaestor-elect of next year is now Publius Cornelius Sissina, the elder nephew of Caesar's old friend and brother of the rogue Lucius Cornelius Sissina.

Oh hell yeah, definitely. The Sarmatians terrorized the little Greek cities dotted around the Chersonesus and on the shores of the northern Black Sea before the arrival of Mithridates and his powerful, effective armies. If the Sarmatians are willing to settle down and Hellenize a bit, they can...

They couldn't absorb any Pontic territories; the main reason for the success of Lucullus, and later ultimately Pompey, against Pontus was that they invaded Armenia, which was supplying and aiding Pontus and Mithridates. Tigranes knew that without Pontus he was toast, and spent the years with a...

Armenia had already pissed of the Parthians directly, by taking so much fertile and gem-filled land off of them; the Romans they had pissed off indirectly by allying with and supporting Pontus, and by taking Syria--which was regarded as inside of Rome's sphere of influence. At this time...

@Grouchio The Kings of Sparta were hereditary, however. Even in OTL the Kings of Rome were elected by the Senate; I imagine the same would be true of this ATL. Also, the most minor change in the condition of Romulus and Remus would definitely butterfly away anything else; hell, even Numa...

So...what does everybody think of this informative and specific update? AHA AHAHAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAH! Well...a Roman might drive them out.... Seriously though, I only have two months planned ahead, as of now.

FOR WANT OF THE HAMMER SERVING THE GREAT GOD, 647 AVC After almost a month as Flamen Dialis, Gaius Julius Caesar Junior was getting quite used to it. He had taken easily to the plain fare of the Flamen Dialis; no leavened bread, no extravagances. However, since Gaius Julius Caesar had never...

But I am not trying to reach an end result of combining two closely related people. I am simply positing a POD: Remus survives and a dual kingship develops. It is certainly not impossible that, given what information we have on Rome's founding, that the situation that I gave (the two bandit...

Two two-rulers bit doesn't necessarily have to be due to stronger prevalence of this in Greece and the rest of Italy. What I was thinking was for Romulus and Remus to be two bandit-lords preying on the cities of Latium (like Veii, and Tusculum, and Alba Longa, etc.). Eventually they grow so...

Well...they will be in ATL, as in OTL, myth. In real life, though, of course they won't be.