01-03-2007, 02:09 PM
The propaganda columns of Trajan and Marcus show what the people of Rome would have recongized as the typical look of the army of the powerful and efficient army of most powerful emperors. To say that segmentata is a poor man's armor is really quite funny! At least for me. I find it very funny to think that the conventional representations of the almighty armies of powerful Trajan and Marcus actually show the soldiers in pesant and cheap armor! Anyone at the time that really knew the business of fighting would have been tickled sick and snickered at the irony.
Come now! Do your really believe that segmentata was a poor man's armor and that the typical legionary was too poor to afford a really good armor?
If you answer saying that segmentata was far from being used by 100% of the legionaries then I humbly reply that it must have been used widely enough to have been used as a stylized representation for propagana art in Rome itself, the very capital of the empire, where everyone that counted would have seen it!
Come now! Do your really believe that segmentata was a poor man's armor and that the typical legionary was too poor to afford a really good armor?
If you answer saying that segmentata was far from being used by 100% of the legionaries then I humbly reply that it must have been used widely enough to have been used as a stylized representation for propagana art in Rome itself, the very capital of the empire, where everyone that counted would have seen it!
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
