01-16-2006, 04:26 PM
Quote:Quote:had no eye for military detail
Or they just didn't care about accuracy of details? It is quite conceivable that the story/characters mattered more than the specific details of equipment.
Ding!
Give that man a cigar!!
That's my point exactly. The whole context framing the column is Trajan's library and Basilica Ulpia.
Two things.
1) It never was meant to be a single column as it is today, or seen from scaffolding a few feet away.
2) It was meant to be see from about 20-30 ft away from galleries in the library and the basilica.
At that distance, details of segmentatae could not be read, but legionnaries wearing segmentatae could.
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