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Then maybe this one, or its reviews at least, is more on the lines of what you'd be interested in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Economy-Princeton-Economic-History-Western-ebook/dp/B00A431NAO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504465775&sr=8-1&keywords=rome+market+economy" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>.<br /><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87030814449701755522017-09-03T11:22:35.252-04:002017-09-03T11:22:35.252-04:00I meant to write "...as no written record see...I meant to write "...as no written record seems to exist..." Sorry, I'm just a stickler when it comes to editing.<br /><br />LeroyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22768936949871693812017-09-03T11:17:47.355-04:002017-09-03T11:17:47.355-04:00Raven, thanks for the text block, but isn’t that c...Raven, thanks for the text block, but isn’t that cheating? : ) Next time I write in Spanish (as I occasionally do), this might indeed make things easier than changing the language bar. I’ll give it a go.<br /><br />Cmike, you’ve given me a lot to read, thanks! The reason I asked about contemporary literature of the time is that I like to try to keep discussions somewhat relative to this site’s raison d’etre, not to mention my own curiosity of the subject.<br /><br />And perhaps I was mistaken to mention Jesus as an example of historical record. As you suggest, there are real questions regarding the actual existence of Jesus, and I tend toward the belief that he never existed. Given that no written record seems to exists until decades after his supposed crucifixion, it makes more sense to me to view him as a fantastic conglomeration of the messianic, eschatological viewpoints that appeared in this period of history. Not that I have any real authority on the subject. I’m looking forward to examining those links!<br /><br />Thanks again comrades,<br /><br />Leroy<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62965183440096686312017-09-03T09:35:37.526-04:002017-09-03T09:35:37.526-04:00"Friedman's piece was the "most popu..."Friedman's piece was the "most popular" article among our tribe Over Here! We brilliant Times readers selected that piece over all other displays." You know, there's a lot of denial about who the Trump voters are. I don't remember the source, and I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but many months ago I read a report that the median income of Trump voters is $70,000. Please note, that's well above the median income of all American families, and also half of Trump voters had incomes <b>greater than $70,000.</b> Many of those people probably spend some of their lavish incomes on the New York Times. Of course the Times doesn't want you to know that, so they find weird, racist, dumb people to interview and pretend <b>THOSE</b> are the people who elected Trump.Procopiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554355440319405363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-55123864810922340982017-09-02T06:20:49.596-04:002017-09-02T06:20:49.596-04:00In the matter of whether Rome crucified Jesus, mos...In the matter of whether Rome crucified Jesus, most of that story comes from the Gospels and none of it from a contemporaneous source. According to the New Testament accounts, it would seem that the Jewish client king of the Romans in Judea and the Jewish elders in Jerusalem were, shall we say, more responsible for the condemnation of Jesus than was the Roman governor on the scene.<br /><br />This presumes, of course, that Jesus was an actual historical person. The closest thing to a contemporary verification that the holy man Jesus walked the earth is Paul's reference (Paul, himself, being indisputably an historical figure and chronicler) to having met Jesus's brother James in Jerusalem three years after Western Civilization's most iconic event had occurred.<br /><br />To be fair to the Romans, they were highly tolerant of the local religions in the lands they conquered. That policy has been recognized as a key to the success of their empire project.<br /><br />Of course, some people, or at least one people, could never by mollified. That's why you end up with a Masada <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>.<br /><br />Here are two summaries of the contemporaneous, or nearly contemporaneous, historical literature for ancient Rome.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.attalus.org/info/overview.html#section3" rel="nofollow">LINK</a><br /><a href="http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.asp#The%20War%20with%20Carthage" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22518845344758579882017-09-02T03:19:17.829-04:002017-09-02T03:19:17.829-04:00InterestingInterestingFamous Positive Quoteshttp://famouspositivequotes.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60245735607650385112017-09-02T02:58:48.691-04:002017-09-02T02:58:48.691-04:00Leroy, you may also want to save this text-block s...Leroy, you may also want to save this text-block someplace handy to copy-and-paste characters from....<br /><br />Accents:<br />ÁĆÉÍĹŃÓŔŚÚŹáćéíĺńóŕśúź<br />ÀÈÌÒÙàèìòù ÄËÏÖÜŸäëïöüÿ<br />ÂĈÊĜĤÎĴÔŜÛŴŶâĉêĝĥîĵôŝûŵŷ<br />ÃĨÑÕŨãĩñõũ ÅŮåů Çç ŐŰőű<br />αβγδεζnηhθκλμξπρστφχψω ΓΔΘΛΞΠΣΦΨΩ<br />¿ ¡ € £ « » ß ° © ™ ®Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69728170774855841392017-09-02T00:41:58.971-04:002017-09-02T00:41:58.971-04:00Raven, thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I&...Raven, thanks for the advice, much appreciated. I'll mess around with that. It seems quite like using the keyboard to effect different Latin (such as Spanish) iterations.<br /><br />Cmike, I checked out your first link, and what immediately stood out was the phrase “improve the life within the walls of the capitol city.” Loved the Python bit, but I really wonder to what extent those advancements affected the hoi paloi.<br /><br />I remain a skeptic about the greatness of Rome (it did burn, after all), and your previously italicized paragraph increases that feeling, only because I'm in fact ignorant of the “real” history of Rome. I'm embarrased to ask this, but do we have actual records of Roman life that weren’t written by scholars? Do we have records of the journalists of the times? I mean, didn’t Rome crucify Jesus?<br /><br />I’m skeptical of that story of course, more than any other I can think of, but it seems to have high pedigree. What of the rest?<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Leroy<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69188762642264477662017-09-01T23:28:55.541-04:002017-09-01T23:28:55.541-04:00...just how "great" were the times for a...<i>...just how "great" were the times for average folk, even under Emperors described as benevolent?</i><br /><br />Relative to the conditions that had come before and were to prevail later, pretty great.<br /><br />Hopefully this will play from 3:14 to 4:30 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FN1v5FYkTLQ?start=195&end=270" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>.<br /><br />And appreciate, we're not just talking about in Rome itself, this technology could be found throughout the Empire <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn_T6IS11fc" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>.<br /><br />Or to put it another way <a href="https://youtu.be/uvPbj9NX0zc?t=40s" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>.CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50337259018435883182017-09-01T21:40:04.911-04:002017-09-01T21:40:04.911-04:00Exactly what I did, CMike, if you "view sourc...Exactly what I did, CMike, if you "view source" on the page: [ampersand l t semicolon] or [ampersand g t semicolon] to illustrate the tags, vs. the actual tags to execute the effects.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70564280363676815372017-09-01T21:32:56.659-04:002017-09-01T21:32:56.659-04:00Well done Raven, I was trying to explain it assumi...Well done Raven, I was trying to explain it assuming the tags would disappear if I posted them like you did here. In fact now that I pasted your text I see they do disappear. So how did you do it?<br /><br /><b>bold</b> <br /><i>italic</i><br /><br />As to the last set of tags, maybe it would help if it read <i>less than symbol</i> a href="url" <i>greater than symbol</i> instead of "test.c"CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-800080502596724922017-09-01T21:19:37.510-04:002017-09-01T21:19:37.510-04:00Leroy, the usual HTML tags work here:
<b>bo...Leroy, the usual HTML tags work here:<br /> <b><b>bold</b></b> <br /> <i><i>italic</i></i> <br /> <a href="test.c"><a href="test.c" rel="nofollow">link</a></a> Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18585677429154481122017-09-01T20:27:18.848-04:002017-09-01T20:27:18.848-04:00Thanks CMike. This is the kind of stuff I like to ...Thanks CMike. This is the kind of stuff I like to find on this board. It's always a pleasure to read stuff I don't know about. And I think it was hugely important to include the last italicized paragraph.<br /><br />Despite what is "known" by historians, just how "great" were the times for average folk, even under Emperors described as benevolent? It seems to speak to our times, even now, as capitalism appearsto be in it's death throes.<br /><br />Glanced at the link, will peruse more studiously.<br /><br />BTW - if I may ask - how do you post anything with italics? Do I have to set up a ghost blogger site? If so, I'll just continue to _underline_ my emphases, but I'd like to know. Thanks. <br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Leroy Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-73515560464658364682017-09-01T19:27:46.484-04:002017-09-01T19:27:46.484-04:00Encyclopedia Brittanica [LINK]:
[QUOTE] Five Good...<i>Encyclopedia Brittanica</i> <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Good-Emperors" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a><i>:</i><br /><br /><b>[QUOTE]</b> <b>Five Good Emperors,</b> the ancient Roman imperial succession of Nerva (reigned 96–98 ce), Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161), and Marcus Aurelius (161–180), who presided over the most majestic days of the Roman Empire. It was not a bloodline. Nerva was raised to the principate by the assassins of Domitian, and the others were successively adopted heirs, each only distantly related to his predecessor if at all. The last two—Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius—are often called the Antonines... <b>[END QUOTE]</b><br /><br /><i>Edward Gibbon,</i> The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, <i>volume 1, 1776</i><br /><br /><b>[QUOTE]</b> It is the design of this, and of the two succeeding chapters, to describe the prosperous condition of their empire; and after wards, from the death of Marcus Antoninus, to deduce the most important circumstances of its decline and fall; a revolution which will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of the earth....<br /><br />If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus <i>[son of Marcus Aurelius]</i>.<br /><br />The vast extent of the Roman Empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws.<br /><br />Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational freedom. <b>[END QUOTE]</b><br /><br /><i>Granted, Gibbon largely ignores the plight of the slave demographic while accessing the happiness abounding throughout the Empire during this era.</i>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.com