During the Spartacus War in southern Italy where the Romans took nearly a decade to put down the slave revolt under Spartacus, there were three generals that led the rebels; Spartacus, Crixus and Oenomaus. The Starz fantasy show, Spartacus Blood and Sand, was open on Spartacus and Crixus as they were the two main antagonists; but the identity of Oenomaus was hidden until the last show when it was revealed he was
doctori - the gladiator trainer. I doubt he was in history, but it has been interesting how the TV series has wound drama and violence around the known historical happenings.
I am confused as to why they made Spartacus, Crixus and Oenomaus gain their legitimacy to kill the house of Batiatus through
dominus' immorality and treachery. Ancient morality was different to modern rationality and morality, but even so slave revolts were common and the desire for freedom is pretty consistent through out history. That would be enough.
Prior to the Spartacus War there had been two other slave revolts that the Romans had to raise armies to put down. The Spartans - who state sponsored agoge and professional army and police force - was predicated on the helots being enslaved. Their organization as a form of secret police was because of the constant threat of helot revolt. Romans were also constantly under the threat of slave violence. I think it is safe to say that slavery is not a natural condition for the human psyche and is one that is maintained by force and violence.
It would have been believable enough for me that the gladiators in the ludus wanted their freedom for the sake of it.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
