Fiz_The_Toaster said:
I hear that the buildings and statues were actually in color, I demand to know how crazy they were. Also, I just love Ancient Greece, so I don't need much of a reason to be there.
By most accounts, not particularly, they were just very bright. And, IIRC the
Aphrodite tes Melou had arms, dark red lips, brown eyes, her chiton was blue and skin was sliiiiiiiiiightly off-white, not sure about her hair colour... think it was black...
thaluikhain said:
Even with diseases taken out of the equation, most ancient civilisations were pretty shitty places to live, both figuratively and literally.
Well, that's why they had shit-collecters... guys who went around collecting shit and selling it to farmers to complement the animal shit they used. Not sure how lucrative that would've been but hey...
Demon ID said:
I think the rape and pillaging the vikings got up to could be a laugh, too many people seem to frown on that sort of activity nowadays no matter how much I try to tell them it's respecting heritage and tradition :/
Hardly unique to the Vikings, and if anything, the Vikings were a tad more civilised in their pillaging (go in, steal, burn, leave... comparatively little raping). The Greeks did more raping than them (particularly in Asia Minor). As a Viking you would've been quite the explorer. Varangian Guards, anyone?
thaluikhain said:
That varied. Spartan women, for example, were much better off than Athenian women, and the Republic, Principiate and Empire lasted a long time, rights fluctuated quite a bit during that time.
It was weird... Spartan women had land-ownership rights while Spartan men did not, and had a hell of a lot more 'freedoms' than men. I think Sparta was the the only city that allowed its women/girls to participate in Games as well.
Can't be bothered to quote you a third time, but from 200BC onwards being a Greek in the Roman world was pretty much the same considering Greek was more the equestrian language than Latin... *shrug*
OT: They all have their pros and cons, but based on my love of the era, approx AUC540 early-Republic Roman and I'll try to ignore the smell, hope I'm not one of the unlucky bastards to get a spear through the chest and be close enough to *****-slap Cato.
Which is strange since I'm a sucker for phalanx warfare, boring though it may be.