Yes, indeed, and Justinian tried hard, very, very hard to preserve those Roman laws, those Roman values the Roman identity and I think more so...
I have to admit that my main interest is also in Greek and Roman coinage. I don't collect much after the time of Constantine but over several...
I was going to mention Procopius as he is one of the main sources for everything on Justinian. Oddly enough his secret history (the Anekdota) is...
The phrase, The Last of the Romans probably rings a bell for most readers and contributors to Coin Talk, except that if readers were asked just...
Nice image of Constantinople with Hagia Sophia in the background (and without the much later Turkish minarets along side. As for the differences...
I don't remember where I read this, but it was a book on Nero where in the last chapter, the one on Nero's death, the author cited an example of...
That is a gorgeous, strikingly beautiful coin. That is an As, is it not? As for Nero killing his mother, it is indeed, hard to wrap one's mind...
I can readily see profound grief following a moment of loss of control.
Though it is a secondary source, the book, Nero, The Man Behind the Myth by Richard Holland has a chapter Eleven titled Saving Rome from the...
That's a fair objection. Most folks here realize that much of what we know about the emperors comes from the three historians, Tacitus, Suetonius...
A good use of one's education.
A decent portrait of a decent man who did the decent thing.
EYEPGETON!
There are very serious doubts about Nero murdering Poppaea.
I was blessed, absolutely blessed, in my youth with a classical education which fascinated, intrigued me, and it ignited a passion from which I...
Good analysis. Nero, pitiable. Octavian, contemptible. Caligula, disturbing, Caesar, frightening.
Compared to Caligula Nero is not so bad. And if his killing was seen as capricious, compared to a calculating Octavian or genocidal Julius Caesar,...
Your coin has a very pleasing appearance. That is something very important to me, not a coin's scarcity, but its general appearance.
That is a very sharp coin. He looks more imperial, to me on this coin, than those issued in the West.
If you were to conduct a "man-in-the-street" interview with passersby and ask them, "Do you know the names of some Roman Emperors", you would, no...
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