11-07-2002, 07:57 AM
Are you sure the Romans called the war by name?<br>
Are't historians those really responsible for giving convenient names to events of the past like wars?<br>
During the fighting did the English call the Boer War the "Anglo-Boer War"?<br>
Did our parents really call WW2 "WW2"? I don't think so, and I don't even think the politicians in Washington, London, Moscow, Berlin, Tokyo did either. Only when necessary they would distinguish theaters (fronts); e.g. the war in Russia, the war in the Pacific or,... the war against the Boers.<br>
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If a person is directly living a war I really find it difficult to believe he will call it by a name. If he does lets not take it too seriously unless there is some explicit war propaganda at work.<br>
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Is that the real question you are asking? Was there some name the romans called it to get the crowds willing to fight? e.g. the Romans might have called the first Punic War the "War for Freedon at Sea".<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=goffredo>goffredo</A> at: 11/7/02 9:05:31 am<br></i>
Are't historians those really responsible for giving convenient names to events of the past like wars?<br>
During the fighting did the English call the Boer War the "Anglo-Boer War"?<br>
Did our parents really call WW2 "WW2"? I don't think so, and I don't even think the politicians in Washington, London, Moscow, Berlin, Tokyo did either. Only when necessary they would distinguish theaters (fronts); e.g. the war in Russia, the war in the Pacific or,... the war against the Boers.<br>
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If a person is directly living a war I really find it difficult to believe he will call it by a name. If he does lets not take it too seriously unless there is some explicit war propaganda at work.<br>
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Is that the real question you are asking? Was there some name the romans called it to get the crowds willing to fight? e.g. the Romans might have called the first Punic War the "War for Freedon at Sea".<br>
<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=goffredo>goffredo</A> at: 11/7/02 9:05:31 am<br></i>
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."
