Talk:Naumachia

message: ++Lar: t/c 14:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

message: It should be noted that naumachiae were actually held first during the First Punic War, though they served more as demonstration and practice for the (then inexperienced) navy. I don't have any sources to back this up though. Would anyone know more about this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.248.210.238 (talk) 13:15, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "First known Naumachia" 

message: FWIW, I watched a program on the History channel a couple of months ago, the focus of which was a chemical study of the makeup of the plaster used in the Coliseum, and examination of the flooding and drainage facilities the Romans had built into the coliseum.
The program concluded that the plaster used contained small, but notable amounts of the substance that the Romans used in aqueducts for waterproofing, but not enough that it was designed to be a permanent feature of the arena. It also concluded that the coliseum could have been flooded overnight, and that it was probably built with it being flooded shortly after completion- but not again after that- in mind.
I can’t find (in the brief search I’ve just done) anything I can cite, so I’m not going to put it into the article yet… but I’d say that the section relating to the flooding of the coliseum is probably slightly out of date. Barnas 18:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's what the article implies - naumachias in 80, but converted during Domitian's reign.  Would be interesting to have results of latest studies in Rome - they were doing some work in that direction in the late 1990s but I don't recall ever seeing the results - perhaps this show came out of that.Bridesmill 02:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Water in the Coliseum

message: "We know precisely, from Suetonius":  most classicists agree that Suetonius was the tabloid historian of the ancient world.  Perhaps using him as a definitieve source isn't so prudent.  Maybe change this sentence to read, "Suetonius states in Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Claudius, XXI, 12­14), that the naumachiarii saluted the emperor before the combat with the famous phrase Morituri te salutant ("those who are about to die salute you")" or something similar.  Suetonius is important in this entry because the only known occurrence of that very famous phrase is in his work, but at the same time, his accuracy shouldn't be overemphasized.
--Livius 22:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suetonius 

message: This is more likely to be an alternative spelling of Tyrrhenians than to mean "people of Tyre"... AnonMoos 23:38, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was the people of Tyre - not a good adjective, not sure what the adjective for them is, so just calling them people of Tyre for now.Bridesmill 02:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely "Tyrians"... AnonMoos 04:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thyrreneans

message: Most of this article is acknowledged (by a now-retired user  in the long-ago article history) as a straight translation from the corresponding article in the French Wikipedia. As far as I can tell, the material is good, so the original is probably OK. The English version's pretty low on reliable sources; but the French version might be worth going through for French-language sources. Maybe English language sources too. Haploidavey (talk) 20:33, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translated from French Wikipedia article