Recent content by UmmRa

A couple of years ago, someone (Christian Meier?) suggested that Caesar might have deliberately allowed the conspirators to murder him. While, certainly, this hypothesis isn’t beyond reason -- by 44 BC Caesar was a very sick, very arrogant man and may have seen suicide-by-Senate as the only...

wow... Imagine my surprise, finding my own weblog linked here. (A better link is: http://ummianum.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/update_and_a_wh.html to the post itself and not the category) I've TiVo'd "Utica," but haven't watched it yet. Note that Egypt as portrayed in "Caesarion" is...