Roman Marines

[Bran ap Maclou]

Well, we wonder about the same things, I guess.

I heard it first at a lecture in Bordeaux's "musée d'Aquitaine" a few years ago but only as "romans wore some clothes dedicated to gods in particular". So the idea was to say that romans go to battle in red tunicas to honorate Mars. Ok, I know this point has been widely discussed on RAT, I'm not exclusively convinced myself. Some other gods were told to have a prefered colour also but I didn't note them.

Recently it was told in a documentary about fashion history on TV channel Arte (they made scenes in archeon if you see which doc I think about ?). However, I don't have a written source about this. Do you think this is uncorrect or a "seasnake" ? Personnally, on coptic fragments, I can see some elements dedicated to Bacchus, Venus or Hercule on rust coloured fabrics... So, my mind is not totally done with this idea.

About, the vestis militaris, all I know come from Yann Le Bohëc's book "l'armée romaine au bas-empire" I don't know if an english edition does exist.

Regards