One book, one movie and one game. Same subject , Rome.

I hardlly succeed in focusing so well on one subject at the time, but these days I made it.

The Book: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

The title says pretty much all about the subject, I just want to add that for me it is an interesting description of the ancient Roman political leaders and their motives which led to the events of mid first century BC. Right from the beggining it presents the rather complex situation that resulted in Sulla's dictatorhip, along the way introducing Mithridates (very interesting figure), Pompey the Magnus and nt surprisingly, Caesar.

The Movie: HBO Rome
Yeah, yeah ... I have been hiding in a cave for the past 4 years. Anyway, here there are just some links I found interesting about this series.

Is this series historically accurate?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/faq#.2.1.3

Chronology of the series vs historical events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Rome

Who is and who is not an historical character
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rome_characters

About Roman Gens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gens

Roman naming conventions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions

And off we go ...

I had an interest in history since the 5th grade, but during the college years and afterwards I was busy with my job and building the basic skills for survival in post communist society.

Now that I have succeeded in finding a way to pay my bills I have a little more time for my hobbies, more specific history.

When undertaking the task of learning something on your own is very important to discuss with hobbyists of the same kind and I hope this blog will help me in doing so.

Realizing that I forgot many important things I learned in school about history, I decided to start with the "beginning" (e.g. The Greek and Roman Antiquity), so for some time my posts will mainly relate to this. :)