Why do you reenactment / Living History

[caiusbeerquitius]

I´d be very happy, if as many of you as possible would vote :-) i need the results for a paper, which is due soon... ^^

[Virilis]

Just for my personal interest. I have always been fascinated by roman history (remember borrowing truckloads of books when I turned seven from my local library). There`s no one I know in Finland re-enacting roman period and people have outrageously thin knowledge on the roman history here. I don`t want to educate people here, will anyway give answers if someone asks something...

[Graham Sumner]

This might be of interest for your paper Christian

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/dickd ... y-i-do-it/

Graham.

[caiusbeerquitius]

Thanks Graham! :-)
However, the link does not work :-(

[Graham Sumner]

Hi

That's funny I can get to the page via the same link on another site but not when I paste and copy the link here.

I will try sending it to your email address.


Graham.

[caiusbeerquitius]

If you haven´t yet... I need at least 50 votes for this to be sort of representative... ;-)

So, please click! :-D

[caiusbeerquitius]

*bump*

[Dan D'Silva]

I picked "to educate others." The areas of history that interest me are pretty obscure and suffer from a lot of misconceptions, so I hope that public reenactments will be a good way of putting a spotlight on them.

[caiusbeerquitius]

15 more to go :-D

[Musivarius]

Must be more than 35 people on here? Maybe they've all gone Viking? ;-)

[caiusbeerquitius]

Yes, I need about 50. As soon as possible... :oops:

[caiusbeerquitius]

*bump* ;-)

[caiusbeerquitius]

Only 11 more to go :-)

[M. Demetrius]

I picked "educate others", but that's not the whole reason. Here in Texas, interest in Rome is not on the top list for most people, and recruitment efforts are not greatly successful. It's not our history, and the public is not as interested as in Europe (where it IS the history of the various cultures). Even so, we appear as a novelty, and are in a position perhaps to generate interest.

We try to keep to the known facts and politely try to dispel myths and false information. The series on HBO, Spartacus, has done little to help our cause, except that people are somewhat intrigued by the gladiator experience. We try to explain that gladiators trained with the same weapons and shields that they would use in the arena, and rarely died, but it's of no use. They're convinced that a parma and sword was the weapon for everyone in training. Sigh.

Oh, well, education is key, if we're to get Texans interested. First off is to tell them we do not have any connection to Lucy Lawless, and no, they can't meet her if they join our Cohort.

[caiusbeerquitius]

Six more, and wer´e done... ;-)

So, please please please!