03-12-2008, 09:24 AM
Quote: Most of the mosaic figures seem to be wearing leg wrappings if not trousers - both are barbarian in origin, afaik.Sure, but the point is that the magnate (probably the owner of the villa) and his retainers do wear trousrs, a hunderd years before Honorius.
As to the barbarian origins - why?
Quote:And I wonder if trousers may have been seasonal apparel for Roman civilians in the Late Empire.Explain?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
