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  1. Recommend for me a Roman history book

    Gibbon's work is not about the Roman Empire: It is about the 1700 way people looked at the past. If you want to look at the history of Rome read their own historians: there will be of course deformations and propaganda, but they will be the same that the people at that time were subjected to...

  2. Posters of Alternate movies/documentaries

    Black screen, sad voice They told us it was not possible. They told us it could not happen. They told us it was just an irrational nightmare. They showed us the figures, and the numbers, and the analysis coming from the War College. They explained to us that the Enemy wouldn't be able...

  3. What country do you think deserves a wank?

    Considering the words that Nappy threw to Paoli after the Sardinian raid blunder of 1793, I doubt it would have been so rosy. (he was justified in doing that: he was young, hot-headed, it was his first military campaign, and it went horribly wrong). Paoli was happily aligned with the Republic...

  4. What country do you think deserves a wank?

    "retaining their independence" ? when did they have it to start with? I'm not sarcastic: it is a genuine question

  5. Whither the zeppelin?

    Put a flamethrower over that one ! gaahhh ... need... more .... Zeppelins

  6. WI: Prussia accepts Christianity before Poland

    Prutenii, not Prussia I think you should amend the title with a reference to the Prutenii (the tribe), rather than Prussia (the state). Prussia (whether you take the 1466 version, or the 1525 version, or the 1701 "real prussian" version) was christian by default (if you doubt it, don't tell...

  7. WI: No L. Cornelius Sulla

    Without Sulla, the republic is due to end 100 years before than OTL. Whether if will be Marius, one of the Gracchi, or some other opportunist of the populares factio, SPQR as it has been before is to be overthrown and a principate is established. The bellum socialis will be surely a problem, but...

  8. Would Greek Civilization survive a defeat at Salamis?

    why the heck shouldn't it?

  9. WI No "Holy" Languages?

    Latin was not an "holy" language, but simply the common language used by people coming from the opposite sides of europe to speak one with the other. You could compare it to the using of english on this website, where people coming from Dixie, Dulwich Hill, Krepakistan and Neo-Atzlan use it...

  10. WI Apollonius of Tyana formed a Religion?

    Basically, he founded one (or, to be precise, he gave a new course to the traditional greco-roman one). Only he wasn't very successful on the long run. Pagan elites calling for a spiritualist reform to revive the traditional greco-roman cult kept referring to him for the next three hundred...

  11. WI: Socrates forgotten, sophists triumphant?

    As it sould have been Screw the Sophroniscos' son! Guilty!

  12. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Libanius inverted cause and effect, because when you are at court you do not say "that emperor was a dumbass", not even of an emperor dead in disgrace: emperors don't like the idea that subjects voice those sort of things regardings their betters. Julian was in Anthioch with the court and a part...

  13. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    His appointment of Alexander of Heliopolis as governor of Antioch was another big blunder, since the man was widespread despised, and the act was seen as an insult. All in all Julian did not have a good relation with the city, and the beard was the least of their problems

  14. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Only, they were not insulting him because of his beard. They were insulting him because he put dozens to the torture (and some died of it) because a pagan temple went on fire while he was in the city. He wanted to find an arsonist to blame, but it turned out that the temple went on fire by...

  15. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Just read Zosimus's "New History". And I am pointing you to an author that lived there and then, and that was pagan himself

  16. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Pompey was, and while being pagan (or, more probably, agnostic), he wasn't even an emperor as we dub the term now (thouch no doubt his legion hailed him as imperator)

  17. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Paganism importance at roughly that time could be judged by the fact that Theodosius, when making his law establishing the Nycean creed as state religion, did explicitly ban Arianism, but forgot to mention in the ban pagan temples until 2 year later, when he revised the law.

  18. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    His attitude caused hostility when not widespread revolts and he managed to alienate some of the most important cities (Anthiochia for one). Which, considering his short reign, seems quite a record, but does not qualify much as levelheaded I think that a follower of the "reformed" paganism...

  19. WI: Julian the Apostate lived

    Tombstones tell a different tale, expecially in the army

  20. Best Soviet Union Victory Timeline

    NKVD will have your head for that, tovarish
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