So when I was in college a professor told us that after caeser died, Augustus became emperor. And Augustus was determined to collect as much litteraly work as possible. Creating multiple libraries and what not . But the thing that's always stuck with me is that my professor hinted that the start/ creation of the new testament could very easily of been inspired by Augustus. Not saying Augustus wrote it but he orcastrated it... Is there any proof to this?

Shower thought.

Is there any source from Roman times that they associated colors (or even color patterns) with the 12 signs, whether a standard system or just people illustrating their zodiac representations (physical products) with colors?

So, I was bored and switched the television to some Trump rally type thing out of curiosity... they were interviewing this 12yr old kid about why he is pro trump... of course, you could tell his whole opinion was just parroting his parents or whatever... anyway, at one point, the kid says 'like Julius Ceasar said, 'The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.''... I thought 'what the fuck, that doesn't sound like Ceasar and I don't know when he would have said that'... I looked it up to find it is actually, apparently, a quote from Cicero... my question is, is this a real quote and if so, what was he referring to? I'm not a expert on Rome, but wasn't Cicero around pretty early in the empire? What could he have been referring to?

To start with a disclaimer, I know almost nothing of Roman history but I do find it fascinating. My impression has always been that Roman expansion stopped somewhere north in Germany, and Scotland and that Scandinavia was never under Roman control. I just read a Norwegian local history book, and the author is completely convinced the romans had some sort of control in eastern Norway. He claims evidence for this in the fact that there was large scale iron extraction in this area, and that it was no use for these amounts locally. He also has other bits of evidence. I've never heard of this even being a question, they didn't reach this far, period. But it could possibly be a case of business transaction, and not conquest. As I said, I don't have the knowledge to think one way or the other so I'm asking you people on here, what do you know, or think, of roman activities in Scandinavia?

https://youtu.be/bUjMi9L-NiE?si=ODazcPA1QTmQL9wi

...If anyone is interested in watching my video I took the camera around the entire site.

https://youtu.be/nBdEAoCsYxY

As he is more or less confirmed to have been real. Do you think we will ever find more coins belonging to Sponsian or just anything relating to him in the future???