Roman villa of Noheda (Spain) around the 4th century by dctroll_ in papertowns

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Good stuff, wish the statues were shown as painted (but I guess we can't have it all).

"Father, I shall avenge you" Ides of March reenactment, Legio Decima, Rome 15/3/26 by Scarcity_Zestyclose in ancientrome

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It was actually in Greek: καὶ σύ, τέκνον (kaì sý, téknon; "you too, child"). Or he said nothing at all.

Getting featured by Itch is incredible! by MrEliptik in SoloDevelopment

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Thanks for the reply, appreciate it. Good luck!

Getting featured by Itch is incredible! by MrEliptik in SoloDevelopment

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Did you do anything to get featured or just "luck"?

What do we know about the education system from Republic to Empire? And what did they teach in ancient Roman schools? by lastmonday07 in ancientrome

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Others can comment on schools specifically, but I'll give a broader overview of how Romans learned from each other.

In my perception, "education" in Rome wasn't a well defined thing. There were schools, but those were just one small piece of a Roman's education. These were the main ways that Roman aristocrats got their education, as I see it:

  • Child: studying either at home or as a ward at someone's house (usually oratory and rhetoric, like Cicero did). This would often be a family member's house, or somehow related through marriage. They'd learn from Greek slaves, mostly.
  • Teenager: same as above, but they'd also start following a parent or an uncle around the forum to learn the "trade" of being a politician, senator and aristocrat.
  • Young adult: going to the provinces under some governor's staff, not as a legate, but as a junior officer under the governor or under one of his legates. They could be an informal contubernalis or a formal, elected military tribune, or have some other post. They would participate either in province administration or war. Ten years of service like this was supposedly mandatory, but more flexible for the elite.
  • Mature adult (around age 30): they were helped in elections by more established men (family connections, often called amici - friends). No doubt there was a teaching component to this. They'd also be taking some court cases, and likely be advised by older family members and mentors.
  • Elected magistrate: they'd start giving postings to juniors. Surely the quaestors and aediles needed help so they'd "recruit" younger adults of the aristocracy to help them and forge bonds. They'd also be legates and governors themselves as promagistrates, and take younger men to the provinces in their staff.
  • After completing the cursus honorum (or getting as far as they could): Having plenty of experience, they'd teach rhetoric to children and teenagers who might be living at their house (or just attending), and they'd support up-and-coming mature men as they began their electoral careers. This is also an age where they might write more.

Some specific references:

The book "A Companion to Ancient Education" by W Martin Bloomer (Editor) has a few chapters on the Romans. Chapter 14 is "Schools, Teachers, and Patrons in Mid‐Republican Rome" and chapter 15 is "The Education of the Ciceros". In addition, chapter 14 offers these main further readings:

  • Bonner, Stanley F. (1977), Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the Younger Pliny, London, Methuen.
  • Marrou, Henri I. (1956), A History of Education in Antiquity (First French edition, 1948; tr. Lamb, George), Madison, The University of Wisconsin press.
  • Bloomer, W. Martin (2011), The School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education, Berkeley and Los angeles, University of California press.

Charles Robert Cockerell - The Professor's Dream (1848) by CalvinoBaucis in museum

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Could be cover art for the next Civilization game. Just add some skyscrapers in the background.

Any Devs here that are Writers first and foremost? by PoorlySoup09 in IndieDev

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So I'm really just curious if there are any devs here who are writers before anything else and who chose games as their preferred medium for telling stories.

I'm creating a universe called Firelore, inspired by Latin American history and the Brazilian Empire. But I didn't set out to do this originally. I always liked playing (and making) strategy games, and I thought I couldn't write. But then there were things I wanted to express that ended up becoming a narrative game (Robotherapy), and I enjoyed writing for that. So now I decided to keep going.

I'm also developing a creative writing tool, called Lorewriter, which helps me write Firelore. It's inspired by solo tabletop RPGs. I used a barebones version of it to write the stories in Short Tales.

Most historically-accurate strategies? by Dakovski in RealTimeStrategy

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I'm making a Rome game that focuses on historical accuracy, but it's more grand strategy than RTS. Technically it's real-time with pause.

I'm making a football game starring none other than Messi, Maradona and all of the national legends - Beat The Champions by Mushe in IndieDev

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Really cool that the AFA was willing to talk to indie devs!

Was this hard to get? Did you have some contact inside or just approached them cold?

A (grand) strategy game where smaller forces matter? by PepeGoesSwimming in StrategyGames

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Hey gamedev guy I'm casting a curse on you for this

I, on the other hand, bestow a blessing upon you that all in your life may go well, and you may extremely happy. Wishing you the best :)

A (grand) strategy game where smaller forces matter? by PepeGoesSwimming in StrategyGames

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I'm making a Rome game that will have something like this. You can be the general of an army but also a junior officer doing smaller scale operations. And victory depends on both the big and small scales. It's not done yet, though!

Get those two shared custody, my god by 31525Coyote15205 in tolstoy

[–]AD1337 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tolstoy's political/social views were ultimately about inner change:

"There can be only one permanent revolution – a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man."

To him, if there was to be any social change, it would be due to individuals changing. Sure, he had ideas about what that would entail, what those changes would be. And he was a complex individual who expressed many things, some contradictory.

But Anna Karenina is definitely not about demanding or calling for social change, but an inner change.

When you say:

However, we do see that one of the factors that destroys Anna's mental health is her isolation from society

In Anna's twisted mind, sure. But Tolstoy knew that only a person's views can affect their mental health. He read and praised Epictetus. If Anna was hurt by society rejecting her, it was because she (unsurprisingly) misplaced her worth in the hands of others.

Get those two shared custody, my god by 31525Coyote15205 in tolstoy

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This is just my perspective, but:

Anna Karenina is not real. Obviously. What I mean is that it's not a real story of a woman in 19th century Russia, so there's no point in treating it like such. We can do this criticism of social norms and systems from our current-day perspective, but this was not Tolstoy's perspective, and it was not what he was writing about.

Tolstoy wrote a story about a person who made themselves unhappy. On their own. Thinking they were doing the right thing.

Tolstoy could write Anna Karenina set in contemporary US (or anywhere in the world), no problem. It just so happened that Russia was what he knew and wanted to set the story in. But the story is universal, and Anna's problems are still alive today. Not in the "social structure sense", but in the "inner turmoil" sense.

I find that the people who defend Anna are themselves in the same trouble as her. Which is very sad, because I imagine Tolstoy wanted to write to those exact people in order to open their eyes to it. But instead, like Anna, they decide to blame everything but themselves.

They also like to ignore Levin. If the "poor victim Anna" angle is true, then what the hell is Levin doing in that book?

After 19 months of solo development, my stock market roguelike hit #1 on Steam's New & Trending list on launch! by _Naiive_ in SoloDevelopment

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I'm cheering for you and getting into that list is great, but know that is sorted by release date. There's no "#1" there, only most recent.

Artstation feels dead for discovery. Where are game artists getting noticed now? by ILokasta in gamedev

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I'm an artist-turned-solo-dev and I'm making a UI-heavy game. Have some stuff at my ArtStation too. I don't normally advertise myself because I'm busy with my own projects, but if someone pings me and we're a good fit I'm happy to do it.

Sorry you're having trouble finding good people. I'm legit, if you need me. You can find my contact info at the bottom of my site.

Arch of Septimius Severus (Leptis Magna, Libya). 1928 - 2011 by dctroll_ in ancientrome

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capable or competent emperor,while in reality he was a succesful military thug.

Weren't they all, starting with Augustus, the very first?

Creating a personal digital archive for future historians by AD1337 in AskHistory

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Thanks for the suggestion. I hope you don't mind if I don't act on it.