Comments on: Not Closed. Sleeping

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:32:54 +0000

It is. And I might wake up, sooner or later, Andy.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:20:59 +0000

This is a looooooong sleep, MoR. I hope everything’s OK?

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:29:13 +0000

Happy to hear from you Britannia. In truth, I lurk here and there but don’t comment. Btw, I have just received a couple of posts on my e-mail box coming from the ‘Critical Line’, but I now see they belong to ‘Analytic Continuation’. I’ll be there. Ciao

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:07:54 +0000

Grazie. And it was lovely to meet you face to face after such a long and valuable web communication, Nomad.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 03:43:30 +0000

A chance to take up a little lurking perhaps, Roma?

By: Nomad

Nomad — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:12:28 +0000

Happy Sabbatical.

A time to rest and reflect…

But I know you must still be busy

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:02:32 +0000

Another time TC. I now just wanted to add that what makes the Roman Jewish special is that as for them we can trace a clear enough lineage from the late Roman Republic and later from Emperor Titus onwards.

By: T.C.

T.C. — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:26:48 +0000

I may have mentioned this in the past but my father’s lawyer and friend (they owned property together) is Jewish. He visited Rome for the specific reason it had a Jewish population with a deep history and tradition. He also mentioned the Italians, more than most countries, not only have good relations with Jews (and Israel) but the Arab world as well.

I don’t know why the Italians never leveraged this more in the political realm. We always hear about France and the USA. Italy can play a stronger role given its positive relationship with the Mid-East, n’est pas?

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:30:57 +0000

My cocoon is actually comfortable. But I have to wake up sooner or later if I want my mind not to get too soft.

By: Man of Roma

Man of Roma — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:28:27 +0000

Welcome back TC. Hard to say. As we have discussed here many times the Roman population was already extremely mixed during ancient times (as a capital of a multi-ethnical empire, given the big number of slaves etc.). Some ‘cultural’ transmission has in my view occurred though. And many deem the modern Roman Jews to be the closest we can get to the ancient population of the eternal city.