I'm plunging into my research for a Belesarian Byzantine project at the moment. Nica riots - huzzah!

Ever read "Count Belasarius" by Robert Graves? (Same author as wrote the Claudius books.)

Yes - I was disappointed in it. 'Count B" was very, very dry stuff. I think "I Clavdivs" had spoiled me!


Remember thaty delightful comic about empress Theodora that ran in Brazzle for a while? (Damn - I've forgotten the name of the chap who was writing/drawing that! It was damned fine work, and damned funny!)

Anything like the current plotline in  Rossweisse?

What - my story? No - mine will be based around fun events in the 6th century AD. Rioting chariot racing factions, a hyper intelligent, psychotic ex-prostitute express, the Persian Wars, the Vandal wars, the Italian reconquest.... intrigue, blood, battle....


... Just another typical tuesday afternoon, really!

I meant the 'Brazzle story, but yours sounds fun too.

Oh- the Brazzle story was the enlightening tale of Theodora - An actress who used to do a sex act on stage with a swan, who rose to become empress....


Them was the days!

My, I learned something new today. Let's see, it's fourteen dupondii to a guinea, unless it's Shrove Tuesday, then...

As someone who has been interested in Roman history for a long while, I had seen most of these defined before, but the spin you put on each was refreshing! Well done!
Cap

I figure there'w little point in repeating what I've read in other people's books, so I try to find some irony or point of comparision with things today. I've a number of other articles on Roman (and other ancient) coins in Scraps, if you have the time to search them out.

You would wonder what they teach us in university... or better: force us to learn :P