If you could have a conversation with any . . .

[john m roberts]

I think Petronius would be fun to talk to and get drunk with.

[Anabasis]

I would stomp the Roman about to kill Archimedes and I would bring him to the present, the hell with sticking in the ancient world. That would change history quite a bit but hey. He could solve problems these so called "scholars" say are impossible and I would show him all the marvels we have created thanks to him. I would let him loose in a club with the ladies, he would be a real playboy as long as he doesn't get so wrapped up in his circles. He would probablly be so into his geometry he would be using his knife to draw on his steak platter. Then afterwards I would let him drive a car and film it. LOL After a hard days work I would take him to six flags (hope he doesn't have a heart attack), we would ride goliath and tatsu. Afterwards I would show him the marvels of videogames. I would also have him be my personal Geometry tutor. That would be AWESOME! Then of course I would send him back in time. God knows how this would change the future!

[tlclark]

If you could sit down and have a conversation (assuming being able to communicate freely) with any man of the ancient world, who would it be? Why?

Are you kidding me?
How about Our Lord Jesus, and I mean that without kidding. How could anyone choose some politician when they had the chance to meet (let alone speak with) God himself? hock:

You, me and George Bush could all go together. :wink:

Diety exempted, my first choice is someone less than famous...

Any decent armorer!! then we could end all the squabbles here.

Honestly, the famous people we know a ton about, it's the grunts I'd like to interview.

[Gaius Decius Aquilius]

Helen of Troy
Elpinike
Aspasia
whoever the model was for the Victory Of Samothrace,
Sappho (maybe)

For starters...

Why waste time talking to a bunch of dull old guys in the first place? What WERE you guys thinking when this kind of a thing comes along?

Ralph Izard
and this is just up to 400 BC....

[NightHunter24]

If you could sit down and have a conversation (assuming being able to communicate freely) with any man of the ancient world, who would it be? Why?

Wow...three top men come off my mind right now....

Hannibal Barca
Scupio Africanvs
Archimides

Two were military masters and the other was an inventive genius. I'd need one of those star-trek translators though.... :lol:

[Matt Lukes]

I'm with Travis- I'd go for a more average person- someone knowledgeable but not a real 'personality' so the conversation wouldn't be self-serving or particularly subjective- I'd want to learn things so someone who has a vested interest in certain 'facts' mightn't be the best source :wink:

[Praefectusclassis]

Ralph: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Gaius Philippus]

I think speaking to the average person in the Roman empire would be enough to fill volumes of information that we have no idea about.


I would pick the average Joe veteran......more insights at least for me.

I have learned more about WW2 from the common soldier than I have ever learned from any historian.

I will also take this option, particularly anyone who survived the Varus disaster

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

FLAVIvS VESPASIANvS

CICERO

SENECA

CAIvS CALIGvLA (but i would have to be well protected)

OCTAVIANvS AvGvSTvS

CATO the elder

PLINIvS the Younger

aahh so many.............

M.VIB.M.

[Dan Diffendale]

Maybe Cl-cl-claudius, as the man who wrote the Etruscan encyclopedia -- or, better yet, an Etruscan, any Etruscan! Be nice to have a tape recorder along, so we could get some grammar, though, along those lines, I'd rather record a Sumerian-speaker. Maybe Shamhat? 8)

[aitor iriarte]

I would add Valeria Mesalina to Ralph's list... 8)
Anyway, if a nice chat was intended, I would choose Ammianus Marcellinus.
For a technically biased one, Ctesibius, Heron, Agesistratos or Apollodorus, instead...

Aitor

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

only a chat with Messalina ??????????

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Modern nudity is not allowed on RAT.

Pelgr003




NO REST FOR THE WICKED!!

M.VIB.M.

[tlclark]

Helen of Troy
Elpinike
Aspasia
whoever the model was for the Victory Of Samothrace,
Sappho (maybe)

For starters...

Why waste time talking to a bunch of dull old guys in the first place? What WERE you guys thinking when this kind of a thing comes along?

Ralph Izard
and this is just up to 400 BC....

lol

now that's a good idea.

I would have to add cleopatra to that list. Any woman that could seduce Caesar AND M. Antony at over 40 years of age had to be an impressive woman, though power is an excellent aphrodisiac.

Any of the Byz. Empresses would have been impressive as well. Theodora, Zoe, Juliana.

Travis

[Ioannis]

And of course we should not forget Lais of Corinth, the most beautiful hetaira of the ancient Greek world!

[Gaius Decius Aquilius]

Now you guys are starting to think. Some of the famous men listed, and you would stand in line to meet , were in fact, standing in line to meet some of the women listed above. There has to be a reason.

Ralph Izard