08-24-2006, 04:47 PM
Hi there!
I stumbled across this site and forum some time ago, after my interest in all things Roman got tickled again and I went on an Internet search for some piece of information (can't really remember what I was looking for) and found this site. I've been lurking around here since then, and I must say I continue to be amazed at the wealth of information and the number of knowledgeable people around here .
Since I regard myself as merely a curious & interested amateur (in "real life" I'm an IT/telecom security consultant, so no connection whatsoever there to history stuff), I guess my joining the forum will just amount to a "swelling of the ranks" and not much more.
As far as my initial interest is concerned, that goes a long way back, to the point where my parents gave me my first "Asterix" comic book (I still enjoy re-reading the whole stack of them once in a while). And it has more or less been going ever since (Latin in high-school, and the occasional book acquisition over the years). My main interest used to be the army, but lately I find I get more and more interested in Roman engineering, construction and technology. Strange, maybe ...
For what it's worth, the closest I ever got to re-enacting was me playing "Romans" with friends while I was a kid. Plus maybe the fact that at some point then - not being satisfied by the typical plastic "kid" armor - I tried to make a more-or-less life-sized & wearable reconstruction of a segmentata, mainly from paper and card-board (based upon some pictures from a book called "Warfare in the classical world"). I still think it looked pretty good, all things considering .
Anyways, greets to you all, and keep up the interesting discussions!
I stumbled across this site and forum some time ago, after my interest in all things Roman got tickled again and I went on an Internet search for some piece of information (can't really remember what I was looking for) and found this site. I've been lurking around here since then, and I must say I continue to be amazed at the wealth of information and the number of knowledgeable people around here .
Since I regard myself as merely a curious & interested amateur (in "real life" I'm an IT/telecom security consultant, so no connection whatsoever there to history stuff), I guess my joining the forum will just amount to a "swelling of the ranks" and not much more.
As far as my initial interest is concerned, that goes a long way back, to the point where my parents gave me my first "Asterix" comic book (I still enjoy re-reading the whole stack of them once in a while). And it has more or less been going ever since (Latin in high-school, and the occasional book acquisition over the years). My main interest used to be the army, but lately I find I get more and more interested in Roman engineering, construction and technology. Strange, maybe ...
For what it's worth, the closest I ever got to re-enacting was me playing "Romans" with friends while I was a kid. Plus maybe the fact that at some point then - not being satisfied by the typical plastic "kid" armor - I tried to make a more-or-less life-sized & wearable reconstruction of a segmentata, mainly from paper and card-board (based upon some pictures from a book called "Warfare in the classical world"). I still think it looked pretty good, all things considering .
Anyways, greets to you all, and keep up the interesting discussions!
Regards,
Daniel
Daniel