09-24-2003, 08:11 PM
This is in response to an earlier query about how the alternating maniples might form into a battle line:<br>
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Not that this is historical accuracy, but there used to be a time, it seems, when Hollywood film diectors did some homework. As inaccurate as much of the film is in other ways, the marching into positon of the legions in Kubrick/Douglas' "Spartacus" I think gives a good idea of the theory of chequerboard maniples. Kubrick really tried to have his legions accurate (at least to the thinking at the time). Every time I look at Connelly's diagrams, I am reminded of the film. It's still the most impressive scene in the movie (the actual fighting is kind of stagey and lame after it).<br>
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Just thought I'd throw that in.<br>
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Wade Heaton<br>
Lucius Cornelius Libo<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
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Not that this is historical accuracy, but there used to be a time, it seems, when Hollywood film diectors did some homework. As inaccurate as much of the film is in other ways, the marching into positon of the legions in Kubrick/Douglas' "Spartacus" I think gives a good idea of the theory of chequerboard maniples. Kubrick really tried to have his legions accurate (at least to the thinking at the time). Every time I look at Connelly's diagrams, I am reminded of the film. It's still the most impressive scene in the movie (the actual fighting is kind of stagey and lame after it).<br>
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Just thought I'd throw that in.<br>
<br>
Wade Heaton<br>
Lucius Cornelius Libo<br>
[email protected] <br>
www.togaman.com <p></p><i></i>
