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  2. ARA DI CESARA

    in Imperium Romanorum

    Posted

    The deification of Roman emperors was actually pretty common. Most were not deified while they were alive (I do believe that there were laws against this in Rome proper...however many were "worshiped" in the provinces regardless). However many emperors were worshiped after their death, and quite a few have temples built to them. I think there were one or two who were in fact worshiped during their lifetime (was it Nero? Or Caligula? or both?).

     

    The worship of deified emperors was incorporated into the Cult of the State, the "official" Roman cult. (There were many "cults" in Rome. The word did not have the negative connotations that it does today. There was the Cult of the State, the Family Cult, the Cult of Mithras, etc...)

     

    Julius Caesar was in fact one of them. :)

  6. Reenactment - What Equipment Is Best?

    in Repetere Actionem

    Posted

    The trouble with them is they're not made for contact drill. The tang is welded to the blade, right behind the brass at the guard. The originals were made from a single piece of metal. It's more work for the factory to do it the "old way", so they don't.

     

    Tang...welded...to...blade???? :thumbsup:

     

    My brain is melting. That is SO wrong. I can't even figure out why they would do that. There's no reason to do that. It's really NOT hard to make it all one piece. ESPECIALLY if you're not actually forging the blade but cutting/grinding it (which most mass production makers do anymore.)

  13. Women in military?

    in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'

    Posted

    (would a woman really want to remove a breast purely to pull a bow?)

     

    I surmise that this legend was written by a man who must have assumed that women with breasts could not shoot a bow. I have breasts, they are not small, and I shoot a traditional bow, not *well* (for want of practice) but acceptably. My breasts do not get in the way. :)

     

    Also, the legend says that they cut off their right breast, which does not make a lick of sense to me, or else I draw a bow in a completely different way than most people. Because if they were going to cut one off, I would think it would have to be the left.

     

    Or maybe the greeks had sexual fantasies too?

     

    Why would the Greeks be any different than the entire rest of the human race? :)

  14. Why Not Poetry?

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

    Posted

    Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson has been and continues to be my favorite. The last stanza is my absolute favorite piece of poetry ever written:

     

    'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

    Push off, and sitting well in order smite

    The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds

    To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

    Of all the western stars, until I die.

    It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

    It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

    And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

    Though much is taken, much abides; and though

    We are not now that strength which in old days

    Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

    One equal temper of heroic hearts,

    Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  15. Roman History Tour

    in Trajan's Market

    Posted · Edited by Lost_Warrior

    I would really hate having to rush through all of Italy, let alone France, in less than two weeks.

    Let's say you'd effectively have 12 days, excluding the trip to and from Rome.

    You'll need at the very least four days for Rome itself, which leaves eight.

    A few day trips from Rome would be in order, let's say one to Ostia, one to Hadrian's Villa and Praeneste and one to Cerveteri and Tarquinia. Five days left. Pompeii is a must, and you might as well rebase to Naples. So that's one day for Pompeii, one day for Herculaneum and nearby sites (Boscoreale, Oplontis, Stabiae), one day for Naples itself, one day for the campi Flegrei (Cumae, Baia, Pozzuoli) and then there's just a single day left. An agonizing choice between many of the great sites that still remain in the proximity of Rome and Naples: Capua, Benevento, Capri, Nemi, Albano Laziale, Terracina, Gaeta, Veii etc etc. That's 12 days of top tier Roman sites, all within an hour's driving from Rome and Naples. What's the point in crossing half of Europe, too essentially see less because you lose so much time in transit and changing hotels every day? Just my 2 cents.

     

    This is a VERY good point.

     

    Are you thinking of doing separate tours? Or one tour including all of the places you mentioned?

     

    ETA: You also need to consider cost. I'm not sure what "audience" you are going for here, but I'm assuming you want this to be easily accessible. Instead of adding more time to one tour (making it far more expensive I would imagine) you might want to consider doing multiple smaller tours (one just in Rome, for instance. You could go to all of the landmarks in Rome and maybe a few of those close by.)

  20. Tattoos in Ancient Rome

    in Romana Humanitas

    Posted

    One could see the tattoos under all the armor?

     

    Of course!! By using their ancient X-Ray Specs! :ph34r:

     

    If visibility of the tattoos in battle was the intended purpose, one would assume that they put them on their arms and legs...or even their faces (though for some reason I just can't picture a Roman with facial tats).

  23. Women in military?

    in Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'

    Posted · Edited by Lost_Warrior

    And the first trip to the latrina would have been a dead giveaway. Don't think for a minute that word of a female in a camp of a zillion men would not have gotten around....

     

    I suppose it's possible but not likely. An industrious woman might well have slept with everyone who 'discovered' her...and kept them quiet with promises of more 'sleeping'. ;)

     

    Menstruation.

     

    This is definitely a difficult thing to hide. Not entirely impossible...but very difficult...at least, by modern standards. Things very well have been different back then, in terms of the way they dealt with this (we really don't know how they dealt with the issue of menstruation...I'm pretty sure they didn't have Kotex back then...so I don't know what they did.)

     

    It would also be worth noting that hard physical labor for any extended period of time can make women infertile...so this might not have been an issue for very long.

     

    Lowering the right shoulder of the tunic for harder labor

     

    What do you mean? Is this something that the legions commonly did? Or is it a habit that women supposedly have of bearing their shoulders when doing hard labor? (because I certainly don't, but I was always a tomboy anyhow. :P)

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