Octavian © Kirk Johnson |
Read about one of Augustus' Sayings.
Tortoises live so long they seemed mysterious and so their shells were used to try to pry into the unknown.
Attila the Hun was the leader of the warlike horse-riding Huns who laid waste to lands en route to Rome. Although Attila was called the Scourge of God, it was a Church leader who persuaded Attila not to sack Rome.
Octavian © Kirk Johnson |
Read about one of Augustus' Sayings.
Gibbon was born near London in 1737, attended Oxford, and published the first volume of his monumental work in 1776.
Read more about Edward Gibbon.
Could you please deal with the question of the HISTORICAL JESUS - did he exist? There are so many materials doubting his real existence - why not deal with this question?I'm not a Biblical scholar. Putting aside any religious beliefs, and without proper background, I can only say that there is some evidence that may be valid that Jesus existed. Can you see why I defer to the collective knowledge of historians and scholars in the forum? In the forum thread Non-Biblical References to Christ information is provided on references to Jesus that are contemporary and near contemporary. There are also comments on how reliable such information is. There are other threads on the topic, but this looks like the one with the best information. Of course this topic leads to tangents about religion, which, in turn, lead to very long threads.
While this site is not specifically designed to teach Latin, there are some resources that should help. See: Tips For Learning Latin From the Forum. Another suggestion is a newsletter that comes out every day for a week. It introduces:You can sign up for it here: Learning Latin Online
- Resources for Latin Students
- Latin Basics - Pronunciation and the Alphabet
- Latin Grammar - Particles
- Latin Grammar - Declension of Nouns
- Latin - Parts of Speech - Nouns and Adjectives
- Latin - Conjugations
- Latin - Parts of Speech - Verbs
Another suggestion is based on what I heard was the way students used to learn Latin a couple of centuries ago: they used bilingual editions and compared the Latin with the English. A recent Bolchazy-Carducci publication of Cicero makes this easy to do. See Completely Parsed Cicero.
How did Theodosius earn the epithet "The Great"?The third question came to me through email, but is actually a comment on a "this day in history". The answer is in the FAQ Why Was Theodosius I Called Theodosius the Great?.
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