Comments on: Pirates of the Mediterranean

By: jk

jk — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:26:07 +0000

Krishnamoorthy, What time frame are you talking about for this migration? Click on “Play” at http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ and you will see the journey of man from Africa.

By: S. Krishnamoorthy

S. Krishnamoorthy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:39:25 +0000

While surfing Google search contents, I came across an interesting but unheard of news that the present Dravidians might have immigrated from the present Somalia of Africa. Is it true?
Can you enlighten us?

By: Fëanor

Fëanor — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:21:55 +0000

You know, I was reading Robert Harris’s Imperium the other day, and it struck me that under Cicero, Rome did exactly what the US did in Iraq – claimed a threat to the nation, exaggerated or falsified the evidence to raise popular support, and went after the ‘enemy’ with bloodthirsty vengeance. The Romans did manage to purge the Mediterranean of the most arrant piracy, but the effort was prodigious and – in the long run – probably useless. History never fails to repeat itself, eh?

By: Arby K

Arby K — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:27:40 +0000

I guess even when he was a 25, Caesar knew he was in for greater things. Didn’t know Julius Caesar had it in for the pirates as well, like his fellow triumviir Pompey who would later destroy all of them.