03-10-2005, 01:40 PM
I wanted to add to the series a picture of Stephen Boyd as Messala in the infamous Ben Hur but I'm too lazy..<br>
More seriously I wonder how someone could see a segmentata in that painting.<br>
What I see is a hoplon type shield, an etrusco-corinthian helmet and what seems to be a linen cuirass.<br>
And something that wasn't mentioned: a pike long enough to have the word "sarissa" come to mind.<br>
What if the painting simply represented the equipment of an archaic Roman warrior similar to those that were defeated by the Celts at the Allia?<br>
I tend to look very suspiciously to the early republican legionaries all wearing bronze muscle cuirasses, as it is generally assumed, from that famous relief.<br>
The Greeks imported in Italy all their military gear, from helmets to greaves, to swords, to shields and to metallic muscle cuirasses. It would be very odd indeed if they hadn't imported the ubiquitous linen cuirass as well.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/10/05 2:45 pm<br></i>
More seriously I wonder how someone could see a segmentata in that painting.<br>
What I see is a hoplon type shield, an etrusco-corinthian helmet and what seems to be a linen cuirass.<br>
And something that wasn't mentioned: a pike long enough to have the word "sarissa" come to mind.<br>
What if the painting simply represented the equipment of an archaic Roman warrior similar to those that were defeated by the Celts at the Allia?<br>
I tend to look very suspiciously to the early republican legionaries all wearing bronze muscle cuirasses, as it is generally assumed, from that famous relief.<br>
The Greeks imported in Italy all their military gear, from helmets to greaves, to swords, to shields and to metallic muscle cuirasses. It would be very odd indeed if they hadn't imported the ubiquitous linen cuirass as well.. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antoninuslucretius@romanarmytalk>Antoninus Lucretius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://lucretius.homestead.com/files/Cesar_triste.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 3/10/05 2:45 pm<br></i>
