08-20-2006, 04:07 AM
[color=darkblue]Ave, Jenny!
I read your paper, and thought it was very well written. And it’s consistent with what’s generally said by many about Praetorian uniforms.
Having said that, I respectfully disagree on several points. I’ll start with an analogy of sorts: for many years, experts (archeologists, researchers, authors) have maintained that the leather Roman muscle cuirass never existed. They/we would watch Hollywood movies (some of them quite horrible, but some not), with actors dressed in armor not entirely dissimilar to what seen in evidence, but never found. The worst scorn was reserved for the “boiled leatherâ€
I read your paper, and thought it was very well written. And it’s consistent with what’s generally said by many about Praetorian uniforms.
Having said that, I respectfully disagree on several points. I’ll start with an analogy of sorts: for many years, experts (archeologists, researchers, authors) have maintained that the leather Roman muscle cuirass never existed. They/we would watch Hollywood movies (some of them quite horrible, but some not), with actors dressed in armor not entirely dissimilar to what seen in evidence, but never found. The worst scorn was reserved for the “boiled leatherâ€
