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She will seek my approval? about what? She doesn't look Central E. at all, that was simply my point. The rest is just your detective powers gone wrong.

You didn't look, to me, at all Central European and I don't think you'd be a typical Austrian, Czech, German, Hungarian, etc in the slightest. You're a typical Southern European but especially Latin European, from Italy -> Iberia. Not sure why skin tone is even discussed? Your features are...

I know what Cato believed. My problem is that according to this view, Scipio Africanus (a so-called "philhellene" and Cato's political adversary) who was in many respects the exemplary Roman and did far more for Rome than Cato in terms of war, political activity and so on, wasn't a "real" Roman...

There was no collective attitude of *the* Romans towards Eastern influence. Some like Cato despised it. Others like Scipio, loved it. I am not sure whether Cato represented what the majority of the Roman elite thought at any time but his traditionalist faction ofc lost which means that he must...

Was that the guy who lost Crete to the Ottomans and then essentially made a ruin out of the Parthenon by bombing the crap out of it? :)

Hahaha you're not the only one but you're certainly among a minority of English people - usually the well traveled, vaguely internationalist, middle classes.

I don't know about Central Europe but some Brits do like Spaniards and Italians though I do not think they fare better than the French or the Scandinavians. So I think, at least as far as Britain is concerned, we don't enjoy any privileged position. That said, I do not agree with Gea. I do not...

No, not looking for the exact borders but the Holy Roman Empire did not include just modern Germany. It included parts of Italy, the Balkans, Central Europe & North Western Europe. So if you're gonna talk about ONE successor state (as opposed to many), why single out Germany?

They are not Charlemagne's or Barbarossa's states.

Nation states in existence today (Poland, China, the US, etc).

Not modern and no.

Preach it, sister. Medievalists unite! Seriously though, the High-Late Middle Ages weren't that bad. Let's not forget that not everything that is good and pure comes from the Enlightenment. Many toxic ideas also sprang from it (e.g. nationalism).

NO. The opposite is true IMO. The Vikings didn't really ever write their own history. Our sources are mainly Christian monks who ofc despised the pagan Vikings. The image these monks managed to pass on to the later generations is of uncivilised, unwashed savages whose only interests lie in...

And BTW, I do not agree with kamani and albanopolis, I do not hold their views at all and I understand why Jackson would respond the way he did (though I think he's as mistaken as they are)

I am not sure which people are you referring to. I'm talking about polls. And what you hear from the Greeks is not opposition to the EU, it's opposition to particular measures within the EU. When I'm talking about Euroscepticism, I'm talking about full blown...

The English (he responded to Jackson who's English) most definitely do not want that and never did. England has always been the most Eurosceptic country in the continent. You make it sound as though Northerners want the union to work and Southerners don't. And it is probably the other way...

Italian nationals are still immigrants. If I go to Cyprus, I'm an immigrant 'cos I do not have Cypriot nationality. Immigration has to do with nationality not ethnicity.

Ok sorry about that off-topic. Now then, on-topic: Evelina Papantoniou. Athenian I think.

I'm probably off-topic (not alone though!) but do some of those (the top two in particular) Etruscan frescoes vaguely resemble Minoan frescoes or is it just me? Etruscan: Minoan:

I guess I don't see how any serious belief (or set of beliefs), not just Islam, can avoid being seen by those who are faithful to it as THE right belief. If I believe the earth revolves around the sun, then I think this is THE right belief. Anyone who denies it, is wrong. But I don't regard...