@praetorianus72 Not neccessarily as there were Germans, Gauls, Greeks in the Roman army. By the first century there were soldiers from all parts of the Roman empire.
@irishxxkelt Romans were as good as they were condemned. I know that there were soldiers from all parts of the empire, the presence of some non-italic in the roman legions was certainly one of the cause of the fall of Rome, later.
This is a great mix of the Roman history as well as documenting re-enactment groups! I miss Housesteads and the rest of the Wall... =) Looks like it was a beautiful day that day of filming!
I am a member of the Guard and this is quite good, a lot better than the usual Gladiator soundtracked cloak and sandal drivel we normally get! I look forward to the next episode and hopefully I'm in it!!!!
I intend to direct my Latin students to these videos. They are great! We have photos of them in Book 3 of the Cambridge Latin course.
irishxxkelt 1 month ago
The way Centurions wear their crests are badass.. looks cooler than then how the generals would have wore them. :)
MooseHunter911 8 months ago
What does mean ermine street guard. Why this name ?
praetorianus72 1 year ago
awesome
the spikes were scary and just imagine how many Celts and Germans were impaled on those
tacotony24 2 years ago
Celts and Germans had trowing spears as well.
Spartiatai300 2 years ago
This is a very good group. I am a member of LXF (Legion X Fretensis) in the United States and look up to this group.
rudy43norvelle 2 years ago
this is a bad ass group and a bad ass documentary.
thanggnguyen 2 years ago
it's always funny to me to see saxons playing romans
histatimaniples 2 years ago
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praetorianus72 1 year ago 6
@praetorianus72 thats easy to say but hard to swallow ! look like celts and saxons to me! DNA test???
histatimaniples 1 year ago
@histatimaniples It would be interesting, but I don't thing a DNA test can define the percentage of latin blood in the british blood.
The english language has absorbed a high percentage of latin words, the latins presents on the island in this period have been absorbed too
praetorianus72 1 year ago
@praetorianus72 More than have the English words are directly from Latin. Overall more than 3/4 of English is from Greek and Latin.
irishxxkelt 1 month ago
@praetorianus72 Not neccessarily as there were Germans, Gauls, Greeks in the Roman army. By the first century there were soldiers from all parts of the Roman empire.
irishxxkelt 3 weeks ago
@irishxxkelt Romans were as good as they were condemned. I know that there were soldiers from all parts of the empire, the presence of some non-italic in the roman legions was certainly one of the cause of the fall of Rome, later.
praetorianus72 3 weeks ago
@praetorianus72 Yes there were revolts by former allies and the most famous mutineer was Spartacus.
irishxxkelt 3 weeks ago
this is a good larping group
mcalexev 2 years ago
Isn't Larping, is Reenactment, with real armour and weapons just for showing off.
Spartiatai300 2 years ago
This is a great mix of the Roman history as well as documenting re-enactment groups! I miss Housesteads and the rest of the Wall... =) Looks like it was a beautiful day that day of filming!
kiwifire451 3 years ago
Thank-you so much. I was there on 1st September 2002, which happily was a very sunny weekend.
CaliforniaCaledonian 3 years ago
excellent
arbeia76 3 years ago 8
I am a member of the Guard and this is quite good, a lot better than the usual Gladiator soundtracked cloak and sandal drivel we normally get! I look forward to the next episode and hopefully I'm in it!!!!
Freddie
furryfreddie 4 years ago
Thank-you. My hope was that members of the Guard would like it, and feel well-represented, so I am very I'm pleased (and relieved!) by your comments.
CaliforniaCaledonian 3 years ago
@furryfreddie I'm part of the Guard too ;)
TheBritain66 1 year ago
I posted a comment before but it did not take:(
good that you are posting these!
nice to see,
Tony
piano4film 4 years ago