PortugalCoon was mentally disturbed and racist to an absurd extent. Some of his notions were comical.
Coon was mentally disturbed and racist to an absurd extent. Some of his notions were comical.
Dizem que sim. Não li o livro e também não tenho intenção de ler.Originally Posted by Alex Delarge
Eu li só a parte sobre Portugal e Espanha, na net.
O retomar do Caminho Português que foi ofuscado pela popularidade das peregrinações a Fátima bem diferentes no sentido e na carga religiosa.
Livro do caminho em português (pdf) no fundo da página:
http://www.amigosdelcamino.com/index...143&Itemid=129
Last edited by Catrau; 07-05-2012 at 10:15 PM.
Pequeno manual de reconhecimento de arte arqueologia paleocristã e visigótica, em castelhano.
http://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&...oXLmdAiiKDV1bA
Iglesia de San Juan de Baños (Palencia)
Irexa de Santa Comba de Bande (Ourense)
Iglesia de San Pedro de la Nave (Zamora)
Igreja de São frutuoso (Braga)
Igreja de São Gião (Nazaré)
http://www.turismo-prerromanico.es/a...UMEN.htm#visig
Last edited by Catrau; 08-28-2012 at 03:05 PM.
Portal de arqueologia Ibérica.
http://arqueo.org/
Publicações (pagas):
-Megalitismo
-Os romanos na península Ibérica
-Letras dos romanos
-A cultura visigótica
Gratis
nº3 da Revista Portugal Romano
http://www.portugalromano.com/revista/
Hoje vou divulgar um autor Nabantino de grande sucesso de vendas em Portugal e no Brasil. Não é uma figura conhecida dos mass media mas vende muito. Tem sempre livros nas prateleiras da Bertrand e é vendido por todas as editoras online. Chama-se Pedro Silva.
http://www.bulhosa.pt/livro/historia...s-pedro-silva/
http://www.bertrand.pt/ficha/portuga...cao?id=5788931
http://www.livrarialeitura.pt/livro/...s-pedro-silva/
Article published on Peter Struck's "Roundtable" Blog
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roun...f-all-time.php
Greatest of All Time
"Last fall, Forbes magazine was all atwitter as Tiger Woods closed in on becoming “the first athlete to earn over $1 billion” in the course of his career. Presumably his fortunes will now start to droop, but Forbes missed the mark—taking the long view, Tiger was never all that well paid to begin with when compared with the charioteers of ancient Rome.
The modern sporting spectacles we manage to stage—and on occasion be appalled by—pale by comparison to the common entertainments of Rome. The Circus Maximus, the beating heart at the center of the empire, accommodated a quarter million people for weekly chariot races. These outdrew stage plays (to the deep chagrin of the playwrights), the disemboweling of slaves and exotic carnivores in the gladiatorial combats of the Coliseum, and even the naval battles emperors staged within the city limits—real war ships with casts of thousands—on acres of man-made lakes they had dug out and drained the Tiber to fill.
For the races, spectators arrived the evening before to stake out good seats. They ate and drank to excess, and fights were common under the influence of furor circensis, the Romans’ name for the mass hysteria the spectacles induced. Ovid recommended the reserve seating as a good place to pick up aristocratic women, and he advised letting your hand linger as you fluff her seat cushion.
Drivers were drawn from the lower orders of society. They affiliated with teams supported by large businesses that invested heavily in training and upkeep of the horses and equipment. The colors of the team jerseys provided them with names, and fans would often hurl violent enthusiasms, as well as lead curse amulets punctured with nails, at the Reds, Blues, Whites, and Greens.
The equipment consisted of a leather helmet, shin guards, chest protector, a jersey, whip, and a curved knife—handy for cutting opponents who got too close or to cut themselves loose from entangling reins in case of a fall. They adopted a Greek style of long curly hair protruding from under their helmets and festooned their horses’ manes with ribbons and jewels. Races started when the emperor dropped his napkin and a hapless referee would try to keep order from horseback. After seven savage laps, those who managed not to be upended or killed and finish in the top three took home prizes.
The best drivers were made legends by poets who sung their exploits and graffiti artists who scrawled crude renderings of their faces on walls around the Mediterranean. They could also be made extraordinarily wealthy.
The very best paid of these—in fact, the best paid athlete of all time—was a Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who had short stints with the Whites and Greens, before settling in for a long career with the Reds. Twenty-four years of winnings brought Diocles—likely an illiterate man whose signature move was the strong final dash—the staggering sum of 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money. The figure is recorded in a monumental inscription erected in Rome by his fellow charioteers and admirers in 146, which hails him fulsomely on his retirement at the age of “42 years, 7 months, and 23 days” as “champion of all charioteers.”
His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period—enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fifth of a year. By today’s standards that last figure, assuming the apt comparison is what it takes to pay the wages of the American armed forces for the same period, would cash out to about $15 billion. Even without his dalliances, it is doubtful Tiger could have matched it."
A white team charioteer
A few more words about Gaius: he was born in 104 AD in Lusitania during the rule of the Emperor Hadrian. His father was a well-known entrepreneur of carriage transportation. Since very young his father would let him ride the wagons and the skill and temerity of small Gaius always left the drivers in uproar.
He start competing at the age of 12 becoming Lusitanian Champion of Quadriga (chariot of 4) in the capital city of Emerita Augusta (today Mérida in Extremadura, Spain) and at 14 Hispania Champion in Tarraco (today Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain). At the age of 16 there was nothing left for him to win in Hispania so, with his father support and a rich salt entrepreneur from Salacia (today Alcacer do Sal in Alentejo, Portugal), he went to Rome and at the age of 18 he started his fame on the Circus Maximus competing with the best teams from all the corners of the empire. In the first 6 years as professional he competed in the white team, on the next tree years on the green and finally he finished his career until the age of 34 in the red team.
During his long career (life expectancy for charioteer was 5 years), he raced 4257 times in all categories (2, 3, 4, 5 , 6 and 7 horses) but he ruled on the quadrigas wining 1463 times in which he started on the pole position 815 times and led until the end and won reaching leadership on the final lap 502 times.
Apparently the Ferrari preferred red color came after Gaius famous 7 years competing in the red team.
He was one of the greatest sportsman of all time and undoubtedly the one who amassed more prize money.
A 2 horses charriot
"The very best paid of these—in fact, the best paid athlete of all time—was a Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who had short stints with the Whites and Greens, before settling in for a long career with the Reds. Twenty-four years of winnings brought Diocles—likely an illiterate man whose signature move was the strong final dash—the staggering sum of 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money. The figure is recorded in a monumental inscription erected in Rome by his fellow charioteers and admirers in 146, which hails him fulsomely on his retirement at the age of “42 years, 7 months, and 23 days” as “champion of all charioteers.”
Verey good.Albeit they wrongly call him Spaniard.
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