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Gorpo In reply to KillerX50 [2015-02-18 22:33:55 +0000 UTC]

A student of Roman history?

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KillerX50 In reply to Gorpo [2015-02-18 22:35:25 +0000 UTC]

Are you asking if I am? Or are you saying you are?

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Gorpo In reply to KillerX50 [2015-02-18 23:19:47 +0000 UTC]

Asking if you are. I'm just a TV storyboard guy who has a passing interest in the Romans
 

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KillerX50 In reply to Gorpo [2015-02-19 05:23:58 +0000 UTC]

No I'm not a student of Roman History. However, history reading is a sort of obsession with me, I am always reading about history, ancient, medieval, WWII, etc. The Roman Empire period is my favorite.

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Gorpo In reply to KillerX50 [2015-02-19 11:33:09 +0000 UTC]

Ah fun! Yeah, it was never really a big thing for me until we got a hold of "FVLMINATA", a Roman Empire set RPG. It's got an alternate history that breaks off of ours a few years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. For GMing purposes I needed to read up on what was different and what I could use from real history and I got hooked! (I'd taken a Roman History class in College but the teacher made it dead boring). 

I even did a comic set in Rome on my webcomic site. "House of Paulus" about an equestrian who decides to marry. Had a lot of fun researching that one! 

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KillerX50 In reply to Gorpo [2015-02-19 21:24:55 +0000 UTC]

A shame that the teacher ruined it. Do some side reading on your own, Roman History set the base for the world we live in today, very interesting read IMHO.

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Gorpo In reply to KillerX50 [2015-02-20 00:41:56 +0000 UTC]

I have been! (this sketch series is a case in point...) but what interests me most are the nitty gritty details you don't hear about in the sweeping generalizations of history books. I like watching movies set in or about Rome, but they're 90% Caesar and 10% Caligula. You'd think there weren't anymore Wacko emperors than them and no non-Emperors who were interesting!

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KillerX50 In reply to Gorpo [2015-02-20 23:20:57 +0000 UTC]

I agree, most of the emperors were cruel, or just plain out of their minds. I would like to see movies on Constantine, Diocletian, Pertinax, Elagabalus, etc. The movie Gladiator was during the reign of Commodus, but it was far from historically accurate (which I need in my historical movies!)

Actually, I have been watching HBO's Rome, and they have been keeping it almost completely historically accurate. It is by far my favorite Rome oriented entertainment. I think they should do a prequel of this show, following the terrible and gruesome reign of Sulla.

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Gorpo In reply to KillerX50 [2015-02-21 00:17:23 +0000 UTC]

I started watching Rome, but it was yet another Julius Caesar story wasn't it?  Though I did enjoy the day-to-day stuff in it that was pretty cool.

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Gorpo In reply to Xi-Theta [2012-04-02 23:23:50 +0000 UTC]

Its' Serverus' arm. But I can see how it might look like an extra. Heheheh

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Xi-Theta In reply to Gorpo [2012-04-03 13:13:17 +0000 UTC]

Ah, my bad xx

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