09-08-2003, 05:53 PM
Lets not forget how the legions of Marius delt with the Teutonic and Cimbric fellows. Well trained and led the romans could and did win over and over again over howling hord of blonde giants. The Teutons and Cimbri were especally fierce and convinced to smash the sissy romans as they did at Arausio.<br>
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This debate is academic anyway. The germans didn't fight one-on-one! Ariovitus' terrific german warriors fought in a phalanx as did the terrible gauls against Ceasar and the later goths. One-on-one duel was something of a fluke that caught the imagination of simpletons when the world had changed with warriors a caste. I really think this debate is outdated and conserves some of the odor of those myths so fond of those that like thinking in terms of aristocratic superiority - knights in shining armor over scum peasants - and/or racial (germanic) superiority over dark skin inferiors.<br>
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This debate is academic anyway. The germans didn't fight one-on-one! Ariovitus' terrific german warriors fought in a phalanx as did the terrible gauls against Ceasar and the later goths. One-on-one duel was something of a fluke that caught the imagination of simpletons when the world had changed with warriors a caste. I really think this debate is outdated and conserves some of the odor of those myths so fond of those that like thinking in terms of aristocratic superiority - knights in shining armor over scum peasants - and/or racial (germanic) superiority over dark skin inferiors.<br>
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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."
