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1000th reply!
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sadly, where I live there is no good food except scattered Five Guys
While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses
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Eltain
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Too bad you got the 1001st.
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Actually that's pretty clearly the thousandth reply.
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Actually I am pretty clearly stupid.
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And I would pretty clearly be glad to sig this, if it wasn't already occupied with what is basically an ad for my NES.
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Sho nuff.
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Re-reading Polybius; Hannibal was a boss.
Also, I was recently introduced to the concept of metus Gallicus!
Also, I was recently introduced to the concept of metus Gallicus!
Meh. The Second Punic War is basically classical history's version of the Second World War; anything that can possibly be said about it has already been said.
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Yep, pretty much. I would never dare analyze the war beyond pointing to it and saying "Scary crap happened during this era, from a Roman perspective." I'm using the wealth of Classicists faffing about to support my argument that Plautus' slaves are partially born out a Roman need to pat themselves on their backs and remind themselves that everything is o.k..
Also doesn't stop Hannibal from being cool, if woefully naive in his estimations about how many Roman allies he could turn against Rome.
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If my players dedicate a story arc, I will allow them a general worthy of Hannibal.
The only guy who was close was Tycho; if it wasn't for the fact that a) he had no supplies or b) he got assassinated, he could have done great things that turn.
The only guy who was close was Tycho; if it wasn't for the fact that a) he had no supplies or b) he got assassinated, he could have done great things that turn.
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General Racchus? Thought he had survived all of that.
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Oh right he did.
Let me look at my notes... yep. He organized the regroup and the retreat. I didn't say if he went north or south after that, though.
Let me look at my notes... yep. He organized the regroup and the retreat. I didn't say if he went north or south after that, though.
Hannibal was all right, but I've never particularly been interested in either one of the cults of personality around him (hate him or love him). He was kinda just...there.
Then again, I'm convinced that Roman history didn't get interesting until the WRE was about to die, so...yeah.
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Ah, I see.
Who set up the government after that? Need to go back and look over it, but you probably have the entire details collapsed on Notepad or Word.
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I'm right there with you. I find Roman history absolutely boring (though it is interesting to see how the Romans systematically set themselves apart from the world). The only trouble is I have to link this paper to English literature somehow, and given that there are few authors/playwrights who (directly) take cues from Aristophanes or Menander, I had to go with Plautus, which mean that I had to go with early to mid-Roman Republic.
I'm trying my hardest to paint the Romans as pissy little kids scared of their own shadow. This is the stuff of terrible bias.
edit: I've decided that my senior thesis' title will be "Let's Laugh at Bondage"
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Rumors tell of a perm-banned member who she might have allowed access to her account.
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From what I heard that's why.
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