I recently discovered the Roman historian Titus Flavius Josephus. I found him watching the documentary "The Ring Of Power". The book "Josephus: The Essential Writings" is mentioned. Josephus lived from about 37 AD to 100 AD. He was born Jewish in Judea and fought in the First Jewish-Roman War which resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD. All of the civilizations around the Mediteranean and from the Tigris and Euphrates valley have contributed to modern civilization but Rome was the last before Christ and was one of the more successful. Almost all emperors were patrons of the arts and subsidized historical accounts. Almost all European languages have their roots in Latin, the language of Rome. Rome is also one of the best documented so I decided to make a list of Roman historians, authors and poets in chronological order.
Quintus Fabius Pictor - lived about 200 BC - One of the very first Roman historians whose works are lost but who is metioned by later Roman historians Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy.
Polybius - lived 200 BC to 118 BC - A greek who wrote a history of Rome. Cited by many later historians.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - lived 106 BC to 43 BC - He lived during the time of Caesar and the civil War that followed his death. He was an aristocrat who wanted to preserve the republic. His books are about political ideology, philosophy and letters he wrote to others. His life is well documented and provides a historical record of the times.
Titus Pomponius Atticus - lived 110 BC to 32 BC - He also lived during the time of Caesar and was an aristocrat. He wrote "Liber Annalis" (Yearly Accounts) published in 47 BC. It contained important dates in history mostly of Rome.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus - lived about 20 BC - A greek whose "Roman Antiquities" treats Rome for it's beginnings to the first Punic War.
Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) - lived 70 BC to 19 BC - Poet best known for the "Aeneid" which tells the story of Rome's legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize under devine guidance.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - lived 65 BC to 8 BC - Poet and military officer who lived in Caesars time. Best known for "Odes" and "Epistles".
Titus Livius - lived 59 BC to 17 AD - Wrote a complete history of Rome from 386 BC to 9 BC.
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) - lived 43 Bc to 17 AD - A poet most noted for "Ars Amatoria"and "Metamorphoses". Exiled.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) - lived 4 BC to 65 AD - Philosopher statesman and writer. He was the son of Seneca the Younger a famous teacher of rhetoric.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) - lived 39 AD to 65 AD - Roman poet and republican patriot who the "Bellum Civile" (Pharsalia). Pharsalia is about the struggle between Caesar and Pompey who he favors. Commited suicide because of treason.
Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus - lived 56 AD to 120 AD - Among his works are "Germania" about the Germanic tribes and "Historiae" (Histories) concerning the Roman Empire from AD 69 to 96 and the latter "Annals" dealing with the period of the empire from AD 14 to 68.
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis (Pliny the Younger) - lived 62 AD to 113 AD - son of Pliny the Elder was a Roman author and administrator who left a collection of private letters. In the compsition "Historiae' he described the eruption of Vesuvius.
Gauis Suetonius Tranquillus - lived 69 AD to 122 AD - Wrote "The 12 Caesars" a definitive history of the first 12 Roman Emperors.
Historia Augusta (Augustan History) is a book of unkown author that covers Roman Emperors from Hadrian to Numerian (117 Ad to 284 AD).
The Statue of Liberty - Libertas, in Roman religion, female personification of liberty and personal freedom. Libertas was given a temple on the Aventine Hill about 238 BC. (This is not the same as the temple of Jupiter Libertas restored by the emperor Augustus.) After the statesman and orator Cicero's exile (58 BC), his political opponent the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher built a small shrine to Libertas on the site of Cicero's house on the Palatine Hill; by consecrating the property to a goddess, Clodius was rendering it uninhabitable. A statue of Libertas was set up in the Forum. The Trojan War was fought outside the walls of Troy for 10 years before the Greeks came up with a plan. The created a large statue of a horse to present to the Trojans and then they hid to convince the Trojans the war was over. They hid inside the horse and waited for the Trojans to wheel it into the city. When night fell they came out and killed everyone to win the war. Freedom is a Trojan horse.
Ban military assault rifles and only the military will have assault rifles.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, WHETHER SOUGHT OR UNSOUGHT (??? mind control ??) , by the military industrial complex, the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist, we must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties and democratic process's.......in this revolution research has become central, a steadily increasing share is done for, by, or at the direction of the federal government......"
Dwight D Eisenhower
Farewell Address
January 1961
(I don't think he's talking about communism because after he warns of "a hostile ideology.." he points out 2 things he thinks is wrong with America, and I have suffered from illegal surveillance for 10 years)
Pope Paul IV invented the ghetto around 1555 AD. I think this is what Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice" is about. One of the worst atrocities in WWII was the Warsaw ghetto.
Smedley Butler is the most decorated Marine in the history of the corps. In the 1930's he was approached by someone (I don't know who) to lead a coup to overthrow the US government. Instaed he went to the media. There's a video of what he said on youtube (I think??). Later he wrote a book titled "War Is A Racket'.
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