Thu 26 May, 2005 11:40 pm - [quote="Setanta"]By the by, to deal with another of your snotty remarks, it is the English who gave the name Livy to Titus Livius, not the Americans--in fact, a concept of... (view)
Thu 26 May, 2005 11:35 pm - [quote="Setanta"][quote="bayinghound"]All that bombast aside, it is not clear to me that the slave system is what doomed the Roman Empire. Perhaps the inability, given the... (view)
Thu 26 May, 2005 01:10 am - [quote="Setanta"]This is not all that important to me, but i would like to point out that my thesis is that the economic collapse came with the absence of markets, not of slave labor. It... (view)
Sat 21 May, 2005 09:12 pm - Er, having read my Livy, as the, um, Americans refer to him, I am aware of the creation of the order of [i]equites[/i] or, um, the guys who could afford horses. I'm also fully aware of the... (view)
Wed 20 Apr, 2005 09:52 pm - Hello all,
Just moved to Honolulu to take a job here without knowing a soul closer than the West Coast. Any advice A2Kers might give on how to get to know folks out here?
Formerly of East... (view)
Fri 25 Mar, 2005 12:56 am - [quote="ossobuco"]The man can explain.
It is a question re if he wants to.[/quote]
Am I to take it that I have somehow been rude? (view)
Fri 25 Mar, 2005 12:37 am - [quote="rayban1"]Whose administration actually allowed North Korea to become that "Total unmitigated friggin disaster"? I'll give you a clue-----Madame Albright was his... (view)
Fri 25 Mar, 2005 12:10 am - [quote="Setanta"]No.
The Empire in the west was condemned economically by slavery; in the east, although it survived a thousand years after the sack of Rome by the Goths, it... (view)