[Views on the Germanics]

It would be interesting if you can find any sources. Like so many periods in history, very little was recorded by common people. In most cases they were not literate.

 

I looked a bit, but can only find poets and upper class commentary.

 

The only idea I had, was as people have not changed much since ancient roman times, that a commoners attitude would not be much different then people feel today in similiar situations. An example would be how Germans feel about the French, British and American soldiers still stationed there, in theory and practice allies but still foreigners.

[Germans gone mad.]

It does seem to make the 'Mad Idea' list. What do they plan to make it with ? Stone would be hugely expensive. A big pile of deceased and dirt ? It kind of reminds me of the Tower of Babel, but nobody talks.

[What Would You Be In Roman Society....]

I imagine I would have gone in antiquity in much the same way as I went in modern times. I might have done a stint as a regular soldier but would have tried to get into the seige engine business. So, with luck, I think I would have ended up as a Catapult and Ballista repairman.

[Your Hidden Roman Name]

L. Claudius Moderatus

 

-- Nephele

 

I really like that name, but it will be difficult, I am afraid to try and live up to the moderated & controlled part. On most forums I think I am thought of, more like Luniticus Immoderator

[Your Hidden Roman Name]

My full name is: Amhtos Reddaw Lyculs

 

Just First and Last : Saohmt Lclyus

 

 

Gender: Lema (not Emflea)

 

Thanks Nephele!

[What germanic tribe do you like best?]

From the descriptions in Tacitus the Chatti sound the most impressive to me as well. But I have also liked the Cherusci, Suebi and Marcomanni for various reasons. I don't think I am up enough on their seperate histories to have a clear favorite yet. The Alani are intriguing also.

[Monty Python and the Toutonenstein]

I find this relic very interesting and also a bit mysterious. I wonder if any of you are familiar with it or have heard any recent theories on what it was, or actually what it was intended to be. It was never finished. What it always brings to mind for me is a scene in the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. It is the one where they are reading an carved in inscription on a cave wall that trails off with the letters spelling Ahhhhhh. Like it was written as he was dying.

 

It was found on a hilltop area above a cohort castle at Miltenberg Germany along the furthest extent of the Limes. The hilltop contained a roman temple and the remains of an earlier Keltic ringwall. It is in the museum in the town with copies in Rome and Sallburg. I believe it was found at least partially buried in a ditch section of the ringwall in 1878. The inscription is unfinished and reads:

 

INTER

TOVTONOS

C

A

H

F (or I)

 

It is unusual, possibly unique, in its needle shape (and about 13 feet high if I remember right) and in the spelling of the word Toutonos. The most likely theory I have heard so far is that it is a border marker of some sort between the Romans and the 'Toutonos' whoever they are. Some think it is a variation of Teutons and meant perhaps the germans in general. I have also read it might have been a Keltic tribe, but that seems unlikely. That it is a fairly large work, and unfinished makes it possible that it was actually interupted by the Alemmani overrunning the area around 260 AD. I am not sure if the fort was recovered temporarily before being permanently abandoned when the Romans fell back to the Rhine in this part of Germany.

 

I hope I am not repeating something already posted !

 

[Welcome and Introduce Yourself Here]

Hi,

 

I have studied history as a hobby for a long time, but had not spent much time on the romans. While stationed in Germany I became more interested, particularly since it seemed that so much is being newly discovered there, from the roman period. I have gotten back for holidays a few times since and more or less stumbled unto the Limes, and have visited a few of the sites and museums along it. Anyway, I have become really fascinated in the Romans, Kelts and Germanic Tribes & have been looking for a place to discuss them and more or less stumbled into here!