01-18-2013, 05:08 PM
Quote:Burzum post=328587 Wrote:I have long believed that centuries cooperated in command long before having read that litrature. But I have disregarded that belief because logical sense and the way an army is organized just tells me that pilus prior maintained a role of command in each cohort.Just because something is logical to us in the 21st century don't mean that it was logical to the Romans 2000 years ago.
For one thing, religion have a clear influence on what is logical.
We live in a time where the influence around us and the nature in which everything is structured in a military sense has and an effect which prohibits us from having a accurate idea, a demo-graphical entourage in our understanding of what Roman life was about. It distorts our thinking.
When we talk of Rome we speak of those roots that are berried deep within our society. They those pillars that have supported the weight of our advancement and plunged our ancient civility into an era of progression. We cannot revert back to simulate a Roman past with that deep underlining influence of modern thinking deep rooted in our heads. That would be like Noah of the day going to a scientist and asking him "you know what? fuck this idea of going to fetch a giant snapping turtle, and herding lions like sheep into the ark, I want a damn DNA bank please." You know it's completely off topic and does not correspond with our current debate.
Stick to the topic.