Beware the Ides of March

[T-post Tom]

That is all.

[MoreLemonPledge]

[JD10367]

Why? It's a cool little instrumental to start off the album, leading right into "Wrathchild".



Trivia: IIRC that was actually the first album they recorded, but for some reason the second released.

[Jenson71]

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Long live Caesar.

[Skyy God]

I have a couple library books due.

Very ominous.

[Frazod]

Sic semper tyrannis!

Oops, wrong guy.

[Slainte]

The ides of March have come.

Aye Caesar, but not gone...

[Jenson71]

Little piece of fun trivia: Caesar was elected to a high priest position in 63 BC: pontifex maximus.

The position and title remained long after Caesar's death, being held by the Emperors of Rome. That is until Christianity came to dominate the empire. Then, the title switched over to . . . the Bishop of Rome (or more commonly known as, the Pope) where it remains today.

So the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI and the pagan Julius Caesar had the same title and position (sort of): Pontifex Maximus.

[Frazod]

Here's another one (I can't remember what I did last week, but I remember this from Latin class 30 years ago) - Caesar's last words were not "Et tu, Brute," as Shakespeare would have us believe, but rather "Kai su, teknon." Upper class Romans spoke Greek, not Latin, which was the language of the commoners.

"Kai su, teknon," translates as "And you, son."

[T-post Tom]

Originally Posted by MoreLemonPledge

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[T-post Tom]

Originally Posted by Slainte

The ides of March have come.

Aye Caesar, but not gone...

tru dat

[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by frazod

Here's another one (I can't remember what I did last week, but I remember this from Latin class 30 years ago) - Caesar's last words were not "Et tu, Brute," as Shakespeare would have us believe, but rather "Kai su, teknon." Upper class Romans spoke Greek, not Latin, which was the language of the commoners.

"Kai su, teknon," translates as "And you, son."

Yeah that's a good one.

Upper class Romans spoke Latin too. They were bilingual. And of course, they wrote in Latin. Caesar is said to have written some of the greatest Latin works (his war memoirs).

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Jenson71

Little piece of fun trivia: Caesar was elected to a high priest position in 63 BC: pontifex maximus.

The position and title remained long after Caesar's death, being held by the Emperors of Rome. That is until Christianity came to dominate the empire. Then, the title switched over to . . . the Bishop of Rome (or more commonly known as, the Pope) where it remains today.

So the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI and the pagan Julius Caesar had the same title and position (sort of): Pontifex Maximus.

Pope stuff is fascinating. Little children should be forced to learn all kinds of Pope stuff in school. I once had the good fortune to attend an historical exhibit of artifacts associated with the Medici family. Unbelievable information, frankly. Freakingly unbelievable historical information.

Anyhow, I became interested in Pope stuff as a result. There are an almost unlimited number of weird Pope things.

For example, Pope Paul IV decided to round up all the Roman Jews, forced them to live in a ghetto, and wear special, yellow hats ... very reminiscent, obviously, of Hitler's ideas. One can't help but speculate on the many strange connections between the Vatican and Nazi Germany.

FAX

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[Jenson71]

Originally Posted by FAX

Pope stuff is fascinating. Little children should be forced to learn all kinds of Pope stuff in school. I once had the good fortune to attend an historical exhibit of artifacts associated with the Medici family. Unbelievable information, frankly. Freakingly unbelievable historical information.

Anyhow, I became interested in Pope stuff as a result. There are an almost unlimited number of weird Pope things.

For example, Pope Paul IV decided to round up all the Roman Jews, forced them to live in a ghetto, and wear special, yellow hats ... very reminiscent, obviously, of Hitler's ideas. One can't help but speculate on the many strange connections between the Vatican and Nazi Germany.

FAX

Yeah, the Church kind of got a bit stricter after the Protestant Reformation with things they weren't too fond of (sinning, Jews, Protestants, old ladies who grew herbs). Not some of our better days, Jewish ghettos especially.

But yeah, there's a lot of cool Pope stuff.

I can't remember who the Popes were, or the lady's name, but sometime in the 700-800 range there was a Whore of Vatican that basically ran the Church and sent Popes down the Tiber if they got on her bad side.