Ear ring can be found in the MFA, Boston. [C. 350 to 325 B.C.],
Posted on 10/24/2020 2:34:48 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Interesting how 150 years can cause people to look at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in a completely different light.
Back in 1851 a book by Creasy on “The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo” states,
“that victory secured at once and forever the independence of the Teutonic race.”
Which eventually brought about the rise of the great Kings, German composers and writers and Statesmen of the that time-1800s.
Not long ago I read another essay on the battle about how if the Romans had kept their hold on Germany it would have infused the Germans with Roman Law and philosophy, and as a result there would have been no Hitler.
Brisco was good.
No, if he was wounded, you just finish him off. No Geneva (Lat. Genava) Convention back then.
Heavily regulated, I’m afraid. Even worse than here. I used to take my metal detector almost anywhere, without worry. Now, you’ve got to make sure you’ve got everyone’s permission: property owner (always required, of course), city, state, county, feds.
And God forbid if you’re caught detecting a historical site. Fines, even jail. And your pride-and-joy detector is sure to be confiscated. I quit going out almost 20 years ago.
Oh, and did I mention, Europe is much worse? Shame on you if you dig up a brass button that’s so heavily encrusted and corroded you can hardly tell it from a clod. It’s an invaluable historical treasure to some weenie at a university somewhere who specializes in clods, doncha know?
The Geneva Convention has nothing to do with it. Sometimes there are good reasons to keep prisoners alive, if only briefly.
The Legions at the Teutonburg Forest had no use for the iron collars. I guess that the Barbarians knew what to do with them.
They belonged to Maximus
Here's another possibility - what if he was a prisoner of the Romans, rather than the Germans? Perhaps an insubordinate or panic-stricken officer; the fighting occurred over a period of days, and discipline may have begun to fail at some point...
I’d say some steel wool and some good buffing compound and it will be like new in no time
There is plenty of juicy territory in Eastern Europe that ill be is much less regulated.
I see your point, nyuk, nyuk.
No, seriously, very plausible, thank you.
Ahhh, very juicy. Maybe even more so than Western Europe.
Beat me to it. Always glad to hear of another Roman history buff.
It could have been space aliens.
They were a rough bunch - probably just slit their throats and moved on.
And it could have been an American police department - lefties claim they kill prisoners all the time, just for fun, especially on Saturdays...
/s
*Publius Quinctilius Varus blundered into a German ambush
Arminius (the Barbarian leader) was an ex-roman legionnaire and as such would have been intimately familiar with the layout of legionnaire encampments. I suspect it was a night slaughter by vastly outnumbered Germanic natives who took advantage of the overconfident, sleeping Roman invaders.
Ear ring can be found in the MFA, Boston. [C. 350 to 325 B.C.],
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