https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/18972779.council-urged-look-buying-defunct-military-repair-base-boost-roman-circus/
a) I didnt realise Roman Britain had a circus
b) I didnt realise it was the only one (at Colchester)
We have mentioned it before but it was lost in a discussion of Arthuriana (Camulodonum=Camelot)
C) my memory is even worse than normal
Arthur of Camelot and Aththe of Camulodunum by Gunnar Heinsohn
pdf download -> https://q-mag.org/arthur-of-camelot-and-aththe-of-camulodunum.html
There was also a Time Team Special about it in ?2005, which I saw when it was repeated perhaps 4 or 5 years ago.
Quote from: Michael_Wolff on Dec 30, 2020, 02:23 AM
Arthur of Camelot and Aththe of Camulodunum by Gunnar Heinsohn
pdf download -> https://q-mag.org/arthur-of-camelot-and-aththe-of-camulodunum.html
wow, thats a busy article and made my head ache a little bit reading it. Its certainly a very unusual angle on the normal Arthurian fare!
At least it gives a good excuse to shuffle Imperial Roman, Late Antiquity and Early Medieval army lists to create "historically credible" wargaming scenarios in a "believable" setting. :D
there is that aspect! on a purely 'what if' footing the shifting of the chronologies does make some sense.....but I am not going to start going against the 99.9% of the academic world about it. It is interesting though :)
Quote from: Holly on Dec 30, 2020, 09:27 AM
... It is interesting though :)
Have fun while reading:
-> https://q-mag.org/the-1st-millennium-ad-chronology-controversy.html
:)
Quote from: Michael_Wolff on Dec 30, 2020, 10:48 AM
Quote from: Holly on Dec 30, 2020, 09:27 AM
... It is interesting though :)
Have fun while reading:
-> https://q-mag.org/the-1st-millennium-ad-chronology-controversy.html
:)
good grief....
well thats the rest of the day out of the window now...... ::)
Quote from: Holly on Dec 30, 2020, 09:27 AM
...on a purely 'what if' footing the shifting of the chronologies does make some sense.....but I am not going to start going against the 99.9% of the academic world about it. It is interesting though :)
Here's an interesting new article from a 'Chronology-Rebel' that goes a bit further and takes a broader view:
-> https://conjuringthepast.com/darkearth1.html
"I think we can dispose of him [Arthur] quite briefly. He owes his place in our history books to a 'no smoke without fire' school of thought. [...] The fact of the matter is that there is no historical evidence about Arthur; we must reject him from our histories and, above all, from the titles of our books" (David N. Dumville 1977, 187 f.)
The man has no soul! I confess to being a fan of T H White's wonderful Once and future King sequence - I have Brian Sibley's audio adaptation on my quick find bar at the top of this page. More than ever we need proper human heroes to admire.
Quote from: Michael_Wolff on Nov 17, 2022, 09:53 AM
Quote from: Holly on Dec 30, 2020, 09:27 AM
...on a purely 'what if' footing the shifting of the chronologies does make some sense.....but I am not going to start going against the 99.9% of the academic world about it. It is interesting though :)
Here's an interesting new article from a 'Chronology-Rebel' that goes a bit further and takes a broader view:
-> https://conjuringthepast.com/darkearth1.html
Catastrophism is alive and well and living on the internet :)
A classic case of "If we ignore 99.9% of the evidence and focus on some quirky stuff, we can claim to rewrite history" I loved the bit where there were a number of people called Paul down the centuries, which must mean they were all the same person, which is the last one, which means Jesus must have been born in the 8th century because of Paul's Road to Damascus experience.
Quote from: Erpingham on Nov 17, 2022, 10:31 AM
I loved the bit where there were a number of people called Paul down the centuries, which must mean they were all the same person
What, even the one born in Liverpool in the 1940s?
Possibly.....
I've had time to run my eye over some of this and it took me a while but i suddenly remembered where I had red very similar prose and arguments but it was in the mid seventies struggling through Immanuel Velikovsky's works Worlds in Collision and Ages in chaos - It is all set up to be very plausible but I knew a little of both the Bible and science so I tried to learn more and it was soon apparent that leaving out the circular arguments left a house of cards. As a consequence I didn't bother to read Erich von Däniken's books but did attend a lecture at Cardiff University where one of the Archology team had done extensive work in the same area as some of Von Däniken's evidence - he took his own versions of the same photos - straightened up and pulled back they become obvious natural features not laser carved by spacemen! - Ignore this rubbish.
Going back to the Roman circus in Colchester - which I have a couple of times as I live there - whilst being of historical importance, it is not much of a site so any improvements would be welcome.
like many such sites, as you say, any improvement would be a start
QuoteI've had time to run my eye over some of this and it took me a while but i suddenly remembered where I had red very similar prose and arguments but it was in the mid seventies struggling through Immanuel Velikovsky's works Worlds in Collision and Ages in chaos
Indeed so. Velikovsky also immediately came to my mind, both for the subject matter and the style. In this case, it doesn't matter much - we can shake our heads and walk on.
Anyway, back to Colchester ......