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Outlander is one of the best books I have ever read. And guess what? - they did not ruin it when they turned it into a series for TV! Of course the book is so much better but I was pleasantly surprised by the film adaptation.I just read a really interesting YA fantasy novel called The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkowski.
I also finally got into the Outlander series, which I know a couple of SKMB members have read!The first book is fantastic, and I just dug into the second novel, Dragonfly in Amber. Gabaldon has compacted so many genres into this series, and I love what she has especially done with the time-travel aspect of the book. Reading the second half of Outlander, the journey turned out to be very unexpected as I was predicting what would happen--I had the same feeling when I read the beginning of the second book.
I also just finished Revival today. Wow. I'm still reeling from it...it's definitely going to stick with me for a while. I'm still just sitting here and thinking about it. The ending...was quite daunting to me. Once I get my thoughts straigtened, I will share them in the Revival thread
I'm guessing you like Beatles?
Oh, just a hunch....How did you know?
Also that caesar, the word from which we got, Tsar, Kaiser, Kejsare (means emperor) is a roman nickname meaning curly hair. I always tend to be careful in believing relationships in so old history especially since the sources we have are written rather long afterwards. But the connections are interesting. My special interest is rather wide. Goes from the beginning until about 1500 then it is beginning to get to modern for me. The first civilisations are fascinating wherever they are. Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Mexico or Peru.
It is a good quote but Cato is a bit too much for me. I prefer other Roman republicans before him as a person and politician.
Since the namegiving was almost preordained by the fathers name they often added a nickname that could be funny, sometimes cruel, to separate evryone. Caesar was from the Julian family His name Gaius julius. The Nicknames could be inherited to. Don't know how it was in his case. Thats why it is so difficult for historians to decide who did what. Because they are named the same. There is even a case recorded when Cicero and a member of the Scipio family discussed which Scipio a certain statue was picturing and what he had made to earn it. Difficult to separate everyone when they had the same name. With the daughters it was even worse. If the father was Julius all daughters must be Julia. Then they added, Minor and Major to separate them if one was lucky. Confusing to say the least.
