I usually believed that chain mail was indeed developped by Celts who were master ironworkers, but your question raises the point that mail would have been...
I think the Romans like the Greeks thought in terms of citizenry and non citizenry, and the law was built around that. To a certain place and ancestry ...
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My vote of course is Augusus, who I supported earlier....No Flip Flopper am I. My Second choice would Be Tiberious, He could have taken Augustus' invention and...
<<If not, would mail have been developed against the big Celtic and Germanic slashing swords? It sounds possible.>> I think mail is very effective against...
I have attempted to upgrade our Flickr account to a pro account. I received a notice that there was some glitch but hopefully I'll get it worked out next...
I think we have to be very careful making assumptions about cause and effect in armour development. There are very few example of an armour being developed ...
A problem with chain mail though was that good mail was costly and sometimes limited. Not all of the Gauls wore mail, a great number of them fought without...
I think that as far as invention was concerned Augustus was a typical Roman. Application not invention was his great skill. Augustus was one of the great...
Thank you Mary. I for one will be uploading many more of my Roman photos particuarly as we can put them in folders and add comments. I have upgraded my own...
Hi Mary, Richard and Khaki, Thanks for your kind-, and warm "Re-Welcome"! Had to jump entirely into theology again during the last year, and, - being in a...
Now I am not saying what if the Teutonberg Forest disaster had not occured but later the Roman frontier had been established roughly along the Elbe-Danube...
What the Romans seem to have wanted was to establish a friendly zone ahead of their fortified frontier. Over time the strategic outlook seems to have changed....
Here's an interesting bit of synchronicity (as i put my explorator newsletter together) ... whoever was asking for that translation of a latin prayer should...
In a message dated 10/3/2004 2:56:17 AM Central Standard Time, gauiscaecilius@... writes: > Was the reason not ... Your question is a good one and has...
I was looking at a purely practical military point of view. If a more easterly frontier could have been established without too much opposition the troops...
I could see this applying during Augustus reign particuarly as he himself was no military man. I am sure that Tiberius if other factors hadn't maid it...
The glitch seems to have been rectified and I have been happily uploading some of my photos this morning. One of the things I like about Flickr is that you can...
Hey everyone, my friend just pointed something out about the Roman soldiers and I wanted to know if it's true: We were discussing the film "The Passion of the...
Whilst we need far more votes for the result to be truly significant it is interesting that Vespasian has more votes than any two others put together. Also...
I'm glad to see they got the glitch worked out. Your photos are wonderful Richard and I'm so glad you started grouping them too. The organizer function is...
You're quite right about the notion of shortening the frontier. I was pointing out that it's funny, in the first century the tendency would have been to...
MessageAgain, I can't thank you, Richard, and you, Mary Harrsch, enough for sharing your beautiful photographs of all those far away places. The ones of...
