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- Legionaries VS Iron-men 🧵 -
In 21 AC under the reign of Tiberius the Roman had to fight an enemy they had never seen, an enemy seemingly invulnerable to their attacks (1/8) #svagaiature #SPQR #Roma #Rome @SNicotinus #History #Historia #Trivia
In 21 AC under the reign of Tiberius the Roman had to fight an enemy they had never seen, an enemy seemingly invulnerable to their attacks (1/8) #svagaiature #SPQR #Roma #Rome @SNicotinus #History #Historia #Trivia
In Gallia Belgica e Gallia Lugdunenese, due to the heavy taxation, a
rebellion was burst, lead by Julius Floro and Sacroviro two Gaul noblemen that served in the Roman auxiliary army as officers (2/8)
rebellion was burst, lead by Julius Floro and Sacroviro two Gaul noblemen that served in the Roman auxiliary army as officers (2/8)
While legions moved to the area, the rebels had time to pillage some cities and villages while freeing some new allies. Between them, from a gladiators’ school, they freed a great number of “crupellari” (3/8)
- Agrippina the Immortal 🧵-
Agrippina is known in history to have been an incredible political strategist and for being the main reason of Nero’s rise to Emperor (1/14) #svagaiature #SPQR #History @SNicotinus @ItaliaStoria @Varangian_Tagma #Roma #Rome #Historia @ancientwarfare
Agrippina is known in history to have been an incredible political strategist and for being the main reason of Nero’s rise to Emperor (1/14) #svagaiature #SPQR #History @SNicotinus @ItaliaStoria @Varangian_Tagma #Roma #Rome #Historia @ancientwarfare
She was known as a poisons expert and was believed to have assassinated her husband Claudius with a poisoned mushrooms’ soup to open the road to the throne to his son Nero (2/14)
Agrippina had planned his son’s entire life, she even find him a wife, Octavia, who came from an important family and would’ve been fundamental in the political games of power. Of course Nero wasn’t happy of his mother’s interferences (3/14)
- That Time Caesar was Kidnapped by Pirates (Mediterranean Sea, 75 BCE) 🧵-
In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. (1/8) #svagaiature #SPQR #History
In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. (1/8) #svagaiature #SPQR #History
From the start, Caesar refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. (2/8)
Caesar wasn’t the usual captive, he treated the pirates as if they were his subordinates. In few time he became the de facto leader of the ship. He even sent his entourage out to gather the money and settled in for a period of captivity. (3/8)
Am supporting Cincinnati as it is named for one of the greatest Romans, as I explained a fortnight ago. #SPQR #SuperBowl
Hopefully the coach of Cincinnati, like Fabius Maximus, brought the team in at half time, as after Cannae, and gave clear orders for attritional warfare against a Los Angeles that has all of the pagan debauchery of Carthage and none of its redeeming features
#SPQR #SuperBowl
#SPQR #SuperBowl
The Cincinnati hit back, like Scipio at Zama, against this squalid and immoral Los Angeles team .... Realistically, this Los Angeles coach looks like the sort of fellow who would be a back up dancer in the half time show.
#SPQR #SuperBowl
#SPQR #SuperBowl
Hopefully the Cincinnati can be true to their namesake, grit their way to a deserved win, save Rome, and then return to the plow …
I am pro Bengal as they seem to be underdogs/underbengals and their city is named for the greatest Roman & his legacy of a military society that finally goes home after a war
Good morning to #SPQR Twitter btw … “Salve”
Watching a History Channel doco I recorded ages ago on Caesar in Gaul. The capacity of Caesar to play off tribes and ruthlessly apply force should be taught at military colleges. Also to generate a sustain a Roman Army far from home on a campaign of annihilation and subjugation.
Reading everyone's take on Afghanistan - a complete disaster of counter insurgency's making - one cannot watch this & Caesar's determination to simply annihilate his way through Gaul, even when his Legions operated with extended supply lines into modern Benelux countries
Caesar like any Roman commander, would have been conscious that his Roman expeditionary army was in a very exposed AO. Caesar would have had no time for the counter insurgency/'winning hearts and minds' approach other than in Tacitus's make a desert and call it peace sense
Good morning all & OTD in 49BC, Gaius Julius Caesar & his Army crossed the Rubicon. Caesar had served as a military tribune, quaestor, praetor, Consul & pro-consul, conquering Gaul. When a corrupt Senate sought Caesar's recall, he commenced his march on Rome. "Alea iacta est"
Not sure if it is the date but noticing a lot of very bad Roman history takes. The Romans of 49BC did have massive senatorial corruption problems. But also a huge problem of underemployed Romans, as empire's growth meant slaves (product of conquest) doing formerly paid work doing
I find Roman history endlessly fascinating - #SPQR and all that - but in 49BC, everyone (even people I otherwise despise like Cicero and Cato) were serious people, not grifting, not performing. What should worry was Caesar & his Army pushed at an open door, winning many over.
Good morning all & OTD in 69AD, the Roman Senate declares Vespasian - Rome's leading General whose troops had acclaimed him Emperor on July 1 - as the last Emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors. Vespasian, a forthright soldier, righted the Roman state & provided needed order.
Will add that Roman law & 'Mos Maiorum' prized order for the Roman state above other niceties. Vespasian had 'performance legitimacy' & a record of imposing order which by 68-69AD meant most Romans saw his Army as a legitimating authority to which the Senate had to pay heed.
The Romans - being a practical & historically literate people - realised that whatever qualms they may have about a Sulla, Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian etal, each provided a needed order that could impose law & provide justice & thus each was of use to #SPQR
There are two major Western schools or systems of law: there is the Civil Law system (also known as Roman Law) and the Common Law system (which is English law). What follows is an abbreviated & hopefully clear summary of Roman Law & its impact on the Common Law world. 🏛️⚖️👑⚜️🇻🇦
For ease of understanding, and as I am writing in English not Latin, I will describe law using Jus rather “Ius”. I do realise this will upset the purists. Also I am trying to make clear what is a large and complex jurisprudential history.
Put very simply, the Common Law system of law grew up with Britons, then Anglo-Saxons, then Norman, to become English law & this Common Law followed with the English language to the rest of the English speaking world and wherever became or was influenced by the British Empire.
"Caesar wept, as he had no more laws to dictate to his Scribes, as his legionaries, seen in the distance from the portico, toasted goblets of wine, amid the ruins of the assemblies."
"Marcus Agrippa read Caesar's orders aloud for the benefit of all the clerks and scribes, and, pointing his staff at the Quaestors, ordered that the Treasury now be opened to provide sustenance for the Roman people".
"Caesar then turned to his Praetors and declared to them that he had acted for the good of the Roman people - and that he expected Caesar's heirs and successors to be bound always to act for the people's good, similarly, and for that of the res publica"
Here are two cultures of natural yeasts. The one on the left was collected on a hike behind @NASAJPL, and the right is called “Son of Popidius,” and was cultured from scrapings of an actual ancient Roman bakery. Today I’ll make bread with both, using two ancient grains.
I thought you’d like to see the differences between ancient wheat and modern. On the right is modern soft white wheat. Moving left we have Farro, Kamut, and Einkorn, in order of ancientness. Today I’m going to mill and use Kamut and Farro. Why?
First up is Farro. This was the wheat of the Roman Empire, and as such I’m going to make some loaves with it and the Roman cultures. These will be rustic and made without baskets, the idea being a simple soldier’s meal to eat with the big GOT battle today.
