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Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - tlclark - 09-02-2006 Quote:If one can go back with a time machine, there are basically two options: Actually, there is a science fiction story just like this, except he goes back in time to the age of the dinosaurs. He writes his story in mud deposits he knows will one day become shale. Personally, I would live my life as I choose since I don't believe you can mess up the future. If you do change the timeline, you've just created a parallel universe, so no worries! Travis Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Matt Lukes - 09-02-2006 The thing is that if you use a time machine, unless it is damaged as is the plot device that is so often used in science fiction, you could just come back any old time- bringing back information if nothing else, yes? Crichton's Timeline has an archaeologist who goes back in time leaving his spectacles and a note (I think) in a medieval site he knows his team is excavating... and one of them ends up having been fascinated by his own sarcophagus LOL Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Jona Lendering - 09-02-2006 Quote:Crichton's Timeline has an archaeologist who goes back in time leaving his spectacles and a note (I think) in a medieval site he knows his team is excavating... and one of them ends up having been fascinated by his own sarcophagus LOLAnd of course there's Gore Vidal's [amazon]Life from Golgotha[/amazon]: utterly offensive for the commercialized Christianity of US televangelists, and extremely funny. Vidal's self-portrait as a decadent Roman is a little gem too. Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Matt Lukes - 09-02-2006 For sure. In the last decade or so, thanks in large part to Star Trek, time travel has become the most OVERused sci-fi topic there is :lol: I'm as sick of it as I am about hearing about the Prime Directive that clearly no one takes seriously :lol: Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - ARRIVS - 09-30-2006 Hey! Why not just grow up and get a life!? Those bad old days are long past and thank goodness! You are LUCKY to live now in the 21st Century when so much is available to you! Nowadays dressing up in a skirt and pretending to be a Roman is a hobby, a pastime, a casual diversion. Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Matt Lukes - 09-30-2006 Indeed just being able to live the fun bits and not have to deal with the unpleasantries of everyday life in ancient times is a good thing Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 10-01-2006 As already told tons of times e in these five (?) years of life of this forum, it's indeed a matter of points of view... How for anyone of us the "Golden Age" ought to be? And what "Golden Age" really means? 8) Valete Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Virilis - 10-01-2006 Daniele, is that a Deepeeka Deurne helmet on your head on your Avatar? Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - FAVENTIANVS - 10-01-2006 Have you modifyed it? Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 10-01-2006 Yes, it's just the usual Deepeeka Deurne. I've bought it on last spring to modify it when I'll have time enough. I've bought a Deepeeka Burgh Castle helmet too as base for two options: 1) to modify it as a jeweled Berkasovo with a true gilded finish with stones and murrinas 2) to make a feathers crested Burgh Castle helmeth (no actual evidences though, except for the holes on the ridge of an Intercisa one, if I'm not wrong...) Valete Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - FAVENTIANVS - 10-01-2006 Pics please!!! :o Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Virilis - 10-01-2006 Pics, pics, pics, PLEEEAAASEEE :wink: ! Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 10-01-2006 Sorry guys, but as told above, the helmets are not modified yet. I'll modify them when I'll have time enough and seen I've not a laboratory at home to work on it I have to make my equipment in my balcony when the weather is good and few tools, moreover due to my wife's remostrances, when I start to do something, I must complete it very quickly and without interruptions as I did for the Vienne event in June, it means working after dinner time. If I had a small sticky laboratory in garage or cellar, I could subdivide the work an planning longlasting projects like those helmet modifications. Even if the crested Burgh Castle one should be a quick work. Anyway I want to modify the equipment in time for the next event in Vienne (june 2007) organized by the friend of mine François Gilbert of Pax Augusta (Lugdunum). Loads of Germans to fight ! About my present equipment, even if very lacking and needing of tons of improvements, I ll do soon some decent pics and I'll post it in the "impressions" thread just for testing and suggestions. Valete, Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - Robert Vermaat - 10-01-2006 Hi Daniele, You can always post the pics that you posted on the French forum? Re: I WANT TO BE A ROMAN - TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS - 10-02-2006 Yes, I can, why not? In the last pic I am the one with the Deurne helmet, before me it's my brother in a Marcus Aurelius' army centurion impression. Valete, |