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Women in the Roman Legions???
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Quote:The only thing we can really learn from burial or cremation customs is
Yes, true, and also that all the people buried in ancient times are thoroughly dead. :roll:
Is that really a sure thing tho' Confusedhock:
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M. Demetrius:19g0spst Wrote:Yes, true, and also that all the people buried in ancient times are thoroughly dead. :roll:
Is that really a sure thing tho' Confusedhock:

Well, it's true now.

And they knew how to deal with zombies...hence the headless ones.
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#18
As for weapons for self-defence, you could turn actually everything esp. tools into weapons if you need to. So if you are working in a kitchen there are so many things lying around which you could turn into a weapon.
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Quote:So if you are working in a kitchen
Or the garden, or the orchard...
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#20
Quote:If I understand right, there were sort of two kinds of auxiliaries. There were the regimented "cohorts" and "alae", which were almost as well-organized as the legions. Then there were "warbands" that were organized in native style; they were called "numeri" if I remember correctly.

Do you think women would have been accepted into the "cohorts" and "alae", or only allied warbands?

Sorry if that's a dumb question :oops:


Oaky, first some more theory. In first it is always important to know what period we are talking about, as things change a couple of times during the 'Roman' period.
In the first century I indeed support that you've cohorts (both purely infantry and cohorts equitata, which were part mounted) and alae (cavalry). Next you indeed had some native warbands, fighting under their own chieftain and in native style.

As long as I know we don't have any account of woman fighting in these cohorts and alae, as they were regular troops of the Roman army. I personnaly believe that for that the recruitment and training are similar to that of the legions, but those native warbands are another story. We know that woman did fight in warbands of different germanic and celtic tribes, so why not when this warband is allied to Rome? Okay, there is not much effidence to support this, but I don't think there is much evidence against it, either.
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#21
The presence of women in Germanic warbands, as well as the presence of weapons in what appear to be female Anglo-Saxon graves, may be directly related to who was the head of the family in Germanic society. Male and female roles were not absolutely fixed. We know, for example that in Anglo-Saxon society, if a woman's husband died and her father was already dead and she did not have a son old enough to act in his own right, then she assumed the status of a man in her own society. It might be feasable to think that this might have extended to the carrying of weapons. A similar situation existed in Scandanavian society. In a similar way, an old and enfeebled man was no longer counted among the men and could be classed instead with the women.

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#22
Hence the term 'fighting like old men and women'....
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