Florida State Professor Hoping to Find Roman-Era Pirate Ships

AP ^ | July 4, 2004

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Those pirates sound like Kerry supporters. The Dems in Florida must be really desperate if they're trying to find them.

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Pirate Pong

[Flavius]

thanks for posting this story
I like that stuff

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nuconvert.

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Obviously the pirates did this because they felt marginalized. It clearly had nothing to do with easy riches. Finding a few remaining timbers of their ships will confirm this fact for us.

Bush lied - first century Romans died.

[Ciexyz]

The whole history of humanity is one group of people trying to take something off another group of people. Competition for resources. Fighting for that slot on the corporate ladder by pushing someone else off. Oh, never mind!

[night reader]

Bush lied - first century Romans died.

Women and children hit hardest!

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Tom Daschle's ancestors were deeply saddened.

[Little Ray]

And minorities.

[norton]

Peripheral minorities.

[Badeye]

Interesting. I seem to recall Roman artifacts being found in Texas sometime in the last thirty years or so, but no explanation as to how they came to be there.

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"They turned to piracy. It was easy money.

I don't think a pirate's life was that easy. Sail for months on end with a bunch of cutthroat, scrappy mates. Eat gruel for the entire trip, not sure when your next paycheck would be, or when you would be captured or killed.

I think the professor has the easier job.

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And there may be parallels to today's global relations, said Meredith Marten

Duh. There are still pirates today, dear Meredith. They run drugs, capture lone boats and ships, and are heavily armed.

[R. Scott]

I will prove very interesting. Compared to what we know of the ruling classes and the military, we know very little of the commoner. I have to disagree with this comment, obviously tossed in to help draw funding:

"If you can see how these people were subordinated or just kind of kept on the periphery, you can understand why these people would take such drastic measures," Marten said.

Unless we find written records - preferably dairies - a ship wreck won’t shed much light on it, and as to “why these people would take such drastic measures," it’s a bit obvious. People turn to piracy when they want what they don’t have. Piracy offered travel, adventure and monetary rewards. In those days it was a common occupation. Most traders outside the Roman Empire were pirates when the opportunity presented itself.

[Hatteras]

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle and even highjack.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
We kindle and char and in flame and ignite.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we're really a fright.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villians and knaves.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs.
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.

We're beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up me 'earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me.

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[Physicist]

Arrus, Arri, Arro, Arrum, Arro, Arri, Arre!

[Oystir]

Acient ships are being discovered in the Black Sea fully preserved. Because of the lack of oxygen in the BS there are no wood destroying organisms.

[nuconvert]

She is an anthropology professor at Florida State University. She is searching off the coast of Turkey.

Hadn't heard about the Texas/Roman discovery. That's interesting.

[nuconvert]

Well said....I think.