Exhibit Shows Evolution Of Ancient Roman Armor

[death153278]

Too bad Legionaires were replaced by barbaric mercenaries who were porly armored and didnt have any discipline like the original. when genghis chan attacked the roman armor was ancient history by then.

[RogierV2]

@death153278

Genghis Khan? Are you high or something, Genghis Khan lived during the middle ages around 1100.

[lovestarwarsechobase]

duude wtf on 0:48 you see greek arrmor not roman arrmor ??!?!? Any way love SPQR! But the greeks were cooler :P

[EmeryPearson]

@lovestarwarsechobase The Romans used Hoplites in Republican Legions, known as Triarii.

[elgostine]

@lovestarwarsechobase well during the earliest days of rome, the romans and their then neighbours the etruscans, adopted the greek style of fighting, due to the greek settlements in italy.

[notgodsemigod]

@elgostine This caste-like formation of the Roman society was also depicted in the army where the lower and middle classes fought Latin-style and the higher classes fought in the triarii (hoplites) and in the cavalry Greek style. Of course gradually the old patrician families were latinised through centuries of reforms and intermarriages but still down to the conquest of Greece Roman patricians continued to declare descendants of Greeks (that is how they earned the alliance of 65% of Greeks).

[notgodsemigod]

@elgostine And even those patricians who declared Latin and non-Greek happened to be almost always "new patricians" (i.e. middle class Latin people who rose to patrician level through political reforms) - Cato the elder, who despised everything that was Greek (apparently because it reminded him his difference to other patricians...), is a prime example and shows that still in the late 2nd century, Rome was still a caste society.

[notgodsemigod]

@elgostine At the end, one needs to remember that even as late as in the 1st century B.C., the by far most famous Roman of all times, Julious Ceasar, when being murdered by his adopted son, uttered his last words in Greek (i.e. his first language) as per Suetonius who quoted eye-witnesses to the murder.

It should not surprise anyone. Rome was a caste-like city of main Latin element but with lots of Greek and Etruscan elements too. It should be seen as a city within the limits of the Greek world

[CDspartan21]

@lovestarwarsechobase The Romans were heavily influenced by the Greeks and Etruscans before the 6th century.

[godzillaskywalker456]

I wish it would come to America

[BillyJimmyLee]

Uhm, 0:47 ... roman? This is an athenian hoplite not a roman. Romans wore pelts when the battle of marathon took place, no offence of course...

[EmeryPearson]

@BillyJimmyLee The Romans used Hoplites in Republican Legions, known as Triarii.

[elgostine]

@BillyJimmyLee serious? reallythe etruscans were equiped the same as the greeks due to the greek settlements throughout the meditteranian.

[notgodsemigod]

@elgostine There is something that most people ignore :

1) Rome was a city that was made up by the union of more than 8 nearby towns which happened to be of various tribal ancestries (about 4 Latin, 2 Etruscan and 2 Greek ones...). Later one more Greeks settled in the city.

2) The name of Rome is a greek name and it means "power" (i.e. union=power)

3) Romans of Greek ancestry inside the city constituted the majority of patricians. Patricians till 5th B.C. spoke Latin only as a second language.

[QuinnManning]

@ShowYourWorking greek i originally said greek armor here this is a pointless argument

[QuinnManning]

@ShowYourWorking eaxactly hoplite are greek roman and italian

[QuinnManning]

there is lots of greek armor lol

[heisenfeis]

@QuinnManning think it's an outspring, in the roman early days they may have bought some for research, and later one all greek was roman so :P

[codales]

HA!

These are NOT original ancient artifacts - these are all reproductions/reconstructions made in the 20th & 21st centuries.

I don't whether RomeReports got it's information wrong, or if Signor Mattesini is actually telling people that these are original ancient artifacts, but - either way - they most certainly are not.

They are, however, of great interest for what they are, and actually give most people a better idea of what these items originally looked like than their remains do.

[godfatheraeg]

spqr!

[leeham991]

Funny he mentioned about Christianity though.

These people always fail to mention that Christianity was only legalized by a zoophilic nutcase and it brought about the end of the empire by introducing a violent plague dogma to a society that didn't want it.

[STEELPOT1]

SPQR Forever!

[deceptant]

Thanks for sharing. Watching this to help me in some concepts.

[255Knights]

WOW!