02-09-2011, 10:22 PM
I received an interesting question from an illustrator (Ken 'Apostata' Broeders) the other day, to which I did not know the answer. He wondered whether Julian's personal guard would have had a shield design (which they probably did) bearing the Sun symbol.
I could not guess. We know that Emperors had guards bearing the Chi-Rho on their shields (Constantius II, Justinian), but if Julian had a typically pagan symbol to couter that Christian one (and which one) I don't know.
Ideas, anyone?
I could not guess. We know that Emperors had guards bearing the Chi-Rho on their shields (Constantius II, Justinian), but if Julian had a typically pagan symbol to couter that Christian one (and which one) I don't know.
Ideas, anyone?
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
