Portal talk:Ancient Rome

Verginia

Where could I get a list of Wikipedia people (experts) that are knowledgeable on Ancient Rome. I would like to get some input to the "apocryphal" question at Talk:Verginia? Thanks. --13:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Jasoru Republic

Hello everybody. I just found this article being linked to the Iazyges article. It seems to have several issues (leaving aside grammar and spelling):

1. I have found no reference to it from modern academic writers; the most recent author who mentions it in a google books search is from 1832 or so.
2. It smells a bit like a misinterpretation of the term res publica. I should rather imagine the inscription's respublik (? -- there is only one reference in the entire article, and that is to a work from the 18th century) needs to be treated as a synonym for civitas.
3. Not referenced at all.

No I don't know if this is the site to mention these problems, but if some of you might pop over and take a look at it, that would not be a bad thing. Best, Trigaranus (talk) 08:10, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		Great job, especially with the Caesar quotes Parsh (talk) 17:37, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

By the way your did you know font isn't displaying correctly in the green on black preferences selection. Parsh (talk) 17:38, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Invitation

Dear colleagues!
The german "Limesprojekt" invites you in a symposium on the 16th of March, 2013, at Berlin, Germany. This symposium happens in cooperation between the german Wikipedia and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (german archeological institute), the national representatives of german archeology and is supported by the german Wikimedia, Wikidata and the Wikimedia render project. High on the agenda are the evidence of Geo-Data-Sharing in archeology and development perspectives of cooperations between scientific archeological institutes and communities for free knowledge. In this context we will showcase a new interactive map of the Roman border too, constructed in collaboration with the "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut".

The location is the library of the German ministry of foreign affairs in Berlin. Starting is between 09:00 and 10:00 CET, end of the official part is 18:00 CET. Very probably we'll meet after at another more informal place.

You will find the details here and here. If you have any questions in this context feel free to contact the members of the "Limesprojekt". We would like to meet you in real life.
Kind regards, --Hartmann Linge (talk) 16:29, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Olympiads calendar

To whom it may concern: Recently I have added a calendar to the Wikipedia project that displays the ancient Greek Olympiads, with the number of the Olympiad, the specific year and the name of the winner of the Stadion race. The calendar can be seen on pages such as 776 BC, 696 BC, 652 BC, 636 BC, 556 BC, 480 BC, 448 BC, 280 BC, 264 BC, 164 BC, 4 BC, 1BC, and all the intermediate. Thanks for watching.--Hyphantes (talk) 16:32, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Grouping events by decades

Following two widely-advertised RfCs at Talk:AD 1, the articles about the first 100 years of the AD era are being moved to titles AD 1…AD 100 by a group of volunteer editors. Categories about those years should also be renamed. However we have noticed that such categories are very sparsely populated, sometimes with just one article in them: the article about the year itself. For example, Category:6 is only populated by sub-categories such as Category:6 in Asia, Category:6 in Europe, Category:6 by country, all containing only Category:6 in the Roman Empire which in turn is very sparsely populated (2 articles for year AD 6, one article each for years 9, 10, 15, 16, 20, 28, 38, then roughly one article per year in the following decades). I would recommend deleting them all and keeping only the decades categories such as Category:30s in the Roman Empire, which provide a more appropriate level of granularity for the events documented in that period of history. I also noted some historical inconsistencies, for example Category:50s in Italy which should really be Category:50s in the Roman Empire, as Italy didn't exist then… Any comments by Ancient Rome specialists welcome. — JFG ^talk 23:09, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Note that several categories on establishments in the Roman Empire were recently deleted, based on The following discussion. Dimadick (talk) 20:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

@Dimadick: Yes, and this proposal is a logical extension of the decision on establishments. — JFG ^talk 15:51, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Seems appropriate. Why have a category with no articles? I foresee most of the early 1st century AD categories (1, 2, 3) having: 2 articles (the consuls). If it were the first decade: 1, 2, 3... 10 then: at least 20 articles guaranteed (consuls). Psychotic Spartan 123 06:42, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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The roman Colosseum

What happened to the other side of the roman colosseum? Reckitdor (talk) 13:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)