12-04-2007, 12:49 AM
I think that was in Rambo 2 right?
It isn't really surprising that Romans were sold into slavery, any Roman captives would have probably met the same fate so its not exactly an example of barbarism. Finding some Roman slaves is definately possible though I doubt many of them would have been recovered. They could have hit some of the wealthier estates and probably recovered quite a few, but that doesn't account for the fact the slaves wouldn't have been kept too close together and many would have been sold. My intellectual guess would be that the Roman captives would have been split up as much as possible to make it easier to prevent escaping and revolt. It does makes a stirring tale and no doubt did well to help recover lost pride. Its possible the story would have been told the same if they had recovered one captive slave, but I could be wrong.
It isn't really surprising that Romans were sold into slavery, any Roman captives would have probably met the same fate so its not exactly an example of barbarism. Finding some Roman slaves is definately possible though I doubt many of them would have been recovered. They could have hit some of the wealthier estates and probably recovered quite a few, but that doesn't account for the fact the slaves wouldn't have been kept too close together and many would have been sold. My intellectual guess would be that the Roman captives would have been split up as much as possible to make it easier to prevent escaping and revolt. It does makes a stirring tale and no doubt did well to help recover lost pride. Its possible the story would have been told the same if they had recovered one captive slave, but I could be wrong.
Derek D. Estabrook
