11-23-2005, 02:43 PM
how do you always manage to get me into a debate I don't want to be in :evil:
I really haven't a clue how to solve the conundrum... the diploma would suggest that they are the same - don't think the guy in question would appreciate being given the "wrong" type of diploma, seeing its status...and Tacitus doesn't actually specify that they are different, he merely implies it, doesn't he?
But how, then, do the ranks work? There is an interesting little ditty by Pferdehirt in the "Jahresbericht" at the end of JRGZM 44/2 (1997), 707-717, in which she tries to address (and simplify) the problem along similar lines, basically saying the ranks are interchangeable... but I think her explanation is too simple. I still prefer the notion that the centurion is in charge of everyone (and I think there are some arguments in the epigraphy for such an interpretation), but you silly diploma is a rather hefty argument against it...
To steer away from it... I was actually thinking more of the "same/equivalent" ranks in e.g. the Moesian fleet beign referred to in Greek (i.e. stolarchos etc.), as these may indicate some different developments from the other fleets (though I don't buy it...its my German blood coming through that wants everything "ordentlich" and rigidly structured. Like a Prussian grenadier corps! :lol: )
C.
I really haven't a clue how to solve the conundrum... the diploma would suggest that they are the same - don't think the guy in question would appreciate being given the "wrong" type of diploma, seeing its status...and Tacitus doesn't actually specify that they are different, he merely implies it, doesn't he?
But how, then, do the ranks work? There is an interesting little ditty by Pferdehirt in the "Jahresbericht" at the end of JRGZM 44/2 (1997), 707-717, in which she tries to address (and simplify) the problem along similar lines, basically saying the ranks are interchangeable... but I think her explanation is too simple. I still prefer the notion that the centurion is in charge of everyone (and I think there are some arguments in the epigraphy for such an interpretation), but you silly diploma is a rather hefty argument against it...
To steer away from it... I was actually thinking more of the "same/equivalent" ranks in e.g. the Moesian fleet beign referred to in Greek (i.e. stolarchos etc.), as these may indicate some different developments from the other fleets (though I don't buy it...its my German blood coming through that wants everything "ordentlich" and rigidly structured. Like a Prussian grenadier corps! :lol: )
C.
Christoph Rummel
